9:30am - 10:20am

Serguei Beloussov, Chairman & CEO, Parallels

Current economic conditions have created opportunities for hosting service providers in Asia-Pacific who have the foresight and agility to execute and capture the rewards. Serguei Beloussov will highlight strategies for capturing the growth opportunities of cloud services and SaaS in the APAC market. Additionally, Serguei will discuss how hosters and cloud services providers can be competitive in today’s market, clearly segment the competitive forces, develop a leading hosting business.

10:20am - 11:00am

Philip Antoniadis, Senior Manager, Worldwide Channel Sales

The market opportunity for security and trust has never been better — for you and your customers! Best of all, you can boost your margins and reduce customer churn by selling these high demand security solutions. VeriSign Inc. will share the actionable strategies that their partners have used to be financially successful through the VeriSign Partner Program.

11:15am - 11:40am

Jack Zubarev, President, Service Provider Worldwide, Parallels

Jack Zubarev, President of Parallels’ Service Provider Division, will share his vision of the Parallels product lineup and how they work together to help hosters and cloud services providers gain competitive advantage, broaden offerings and gain efficiencies.

11:40am - 12:20pm

Alvin Lim, Regional Director, Hosting & Software Services, Microsoft

Presentation Synopsis: A world in recession is not a world without opportunities! With the shift in IT approaches and direction, Microsoft shares their thoughts on the convergence of Hosting, Cloud and IT. Get to know more about the strategies Microsoft offers to Hosting Providers in becoming IT providers. Additionally, Alvin will discuss about the challenges ahead and how providers can be competitive and capture that opportunity.

1:20pm - 1:45pm

Frank Hoberg, Co-Founder and EVP Sales and Marketing, Open-Xchange

This session describes how Open-Xchange in combination with Parallels Automation gives hosting providers the ability to dramatically increase their average revenue per customer (ARPU). Open-Xchange is the only email and groupware solution which is specifically architected to meet the needs of hosting and SaaS providers. Due to the open source nature, Open-Xchange can be easily integrated into existing hosting infrastructures and email storage. Now, supporting Parallels Automation, hosters and service providers can implement Open-Xchange without changing their existing authentication, user setup, system administration, provisioning and billing tools. This reduces time and effort for new deployments and enables a real fast go-to-market.

1:45pm - 2:35pm

Craig Bartholomew, VP, Control Panels, Parallels

Parallels Plesk SMB is the latest new product in our easy, profitable, and complete Parallels Plesk Panel product family. SMBs need a simple but powerful control panel that can help them be more competitive. We will discuss and demo this new offering as well as go over Parallels Plesk Panel roadmap showing its leadership as the Complete and Profitable shared hosting solution.

2:35pm - 3:25pm

Nick Dobrovolskiy, Vice President, Virtualization and Tools, Parallels

Learn about Parallels Virtualization solutions, the only one that provides you with the best of both worlds with a completely integrated OS and Hypervisor solution. Maximize your profitability, efficiency, and offerings with the best practices and processes for your environment. This session covers the virtualization line products achievements and plans. It will present an overview of Parallels Server Bare Metal (the first product to combine hypervisor and OS virtualization technologies) and the next version of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers. A live demo of Parallels Server Bare Metal will be featured as well.

3:45pm - 4:35pm

Oleg Melnikov, Vice President, Automation Systems, Parallels

This session covers Parallels Automation — a modular automation platform that provides a broadest automation offering and allows fastest time-to-market. Learn how the product built by a team of experienced developers with a hundreds of man-years of expertise can help you to be more competitive by rapidly increasing the number of value-added services and reducing costs by automating all aspects of your business. Hundreds of the service providers from medium-size hosters to a large telcos have switched from their in-house automation systems to the Parallels Automation. Why haven’t you?

4:35pm - 5:00pm

Irina Zavina, Director, Business Development

The next "big thing" in hosting. Unison is a new approach to business communication, which eliminates the need to purchase, manage and use multiple applications and systems. Instead, Unison offers server providers and end users an all-in-one "unified communications" application which incorporates e-mail, IP telephony, instant messaging, presence, calendar and directory.