Don’t Miss Out—Register Now for Parallels Summit 2013 for Only $99

Parallels Summit 2013 – to be held February 4 – 6 in Las Vegas – is the best opportunity you’ll have all year to find out what changes are coming to the cloud marketplace and how to position yourself to take full advantage of them. Get tips on how to develop winning strategies that will help you build your business and maximize your profits. Plus Parallels Summit is the best single opportunity to network with your peers and make valuable connections.

So mark your calendar for this must–attend event – and register today to take advantage of our Early Bird pricing. Now through October 31, the registration fee is only $99 – a $200 savings off the standard $299 fee when you use this code ATGNNR7B.

Who‘s Speaking?

Featured speakers this year include:

• Jeremy Gutsche, Founder of TrendHunter.com. Jeremy is an innovation expert, the award-winning author of Exploiting Chaos, a judge on BNN‘s TV show “The Pitch,” and the founder of TrendHunter.com, the world's largest collection of cutting-edge trends. One of the most electric speakers in the industry he’s been described as “an intellectual can of Red Bull.”
• Tod Nielsen, Co-President of Application Platform, VMware. Tod—who has more than 20 years of leadership experience in enterprise software and application development— is a dynamic speaker with insights into disruption going on in the industry and the opportunities for cloud service companies in this new era.
• Tim Harmon, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research. A leading expert on business applications, network­ing, and hardware, Tim focuses on how cloud computing and digital marketing affect demand-chain business models.

Plus you’ll hear from Birger Steen, Parallels CEO, and Serguei Beloussov, Parallels Executive Chairman of the Board and Chief Architect, about Parallels direction for the future.

What ‘s New This Year?

This year, we’re offering breakout sessions in three separate tracks plus a new hands–on lab:

• Business: focusing on go–to–market best practices, planning, and strategy
• Technical: covering implementation of Parallels products and technologies
• Developer: addressing the technical aspects of APS development and architecture
• APS hands–on lab – build for APS 2.0 on site

Whatever your area of interest, you’ll find in–depth sessions that will fill you in on the latest solutions, provide insight from industry experts, and help you move your business forward. Check out the rest of the conference agenda here.

And Don’t Forget the Party!

Of course, it wouldn’t be Parallels Summit without a top-notch attendee party. We’re excited to announce that this year’s party will take place at PURE, a nightclub that’s been recognized with numerous awards, including Las Vegas Mega–Club of the Year by the 2011 Nightclub & Bar Awards and No. 1 Club in the Country by E! Entertainment.

Register Now and Save $200!

Don’t wait, register now through October 31st, using registration code ATGNNR7B at checkout – and pay only $99.

Latest News

News from Parallels Summit 2012 APAC

Parallels recently held its fourth annual Asia–Pacific Summit in Singapore, where leading service providers and industry experts gathered to discuss the latest trends and share best practices to further the growth of cloud and hosting services.

Some of the news headlines from the event included:

• The recent introduction of Parallels Plesk Panel 11, which has been adopted 85% faster in Asia than previous versions, thus becoming the fastest growing product in company’s history. Parallels Plesk Panel 11 also includes support for Microsoft Windows Server, Asia’s #1 server operating system.
• Software preview of Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.3, the newest version of the most proven billing and automation solution for managing and scaling small and medium web hosting businesses; and the availability of Parallels Cloud Server 6 Beta, a new technology combines Parallels Virtuozzo Containers together with world-class hypervisor technology.
• Symantec and Parallels announced they have collaborated to remove the complexity of securing web sites and E–Commerce transactions for SMBs, with direct ordering and simplified install of SSL certificates directly from Parallels Plesk Panel.
• CertiVox is integrating its SkyPin™ Multi-Factor Authentication Service across Parallels entire cloud services enablement portfolio, including Parallels Automation, Parallels Plesk Panel and Parallels Plesk Automation. SkyPin will also be selected as a sign-on security and user authentication layer within the next generation of the Application Packaging Standard (APS).
• Parallels released its new SMB Cloud Insights™, with the first report for the APAC Region and new updates for China and India. Parallels estimates that APAC SMB cloud services market opportunity in 2012 is worth is US$7.6 billion, and will grow 38% annually (CAGR), reaching US$19.8 billion in 2015.

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WHD.local Tour, Powered by Parallels, Coming to Seven European IT Hot Spots

Parallels is once again a Diamond Sponsor for the upcoming WHD.local tour. Powered by Parallels, this tour will be making its way across Europe in November 2012.

As a Parallels partner, you can attend for free by using the registration code O1T3442.The tour kicks off in Amsterdam in early November, followed by six more exciting stops:

• November 6, 2012 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• November 13, 2012 – Budapest, Hungary
• November 15, 2012 – Moscow, Russia
• November 20, 2012 – Copenhagen, Denmark
• November 23, 2012 – London, United Kingdom
• November 27, 2012 – Madrid, Spain
• November 29, 2012 – Cologne, Germany

Mark your calendar today with your preferred city and date–and register now.

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Open-Xchange Summit in Berlin, Germany

Come join Open-Xchange and Parallels on November 15th in Berlin, Germany – where more than 300 of the most influential leaders in the hosting, telecommunications, cloud, and SaaS industries will come together for one purpose: to create a quantum change in the industry. And we don’t mean just improving financial performance, either. What we’re talking about is a major shift that recognizes the significant advantages of a SaaS ecosystem for delivering products, services and continuous transactions.

Summit presentations, discussions, and activities are specifically designed to provide the business and technical insights that will help you leverage the competitive advantage that Open–Xchange delivers to global service providers and cloud-based infrastructure companies around the globe.

For more information and free registration, go to www.summit.open-xchange.com.

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Now Available: Best Practices for Merchandising Web Presence Services to SMBs White Paper

In this Marketing Best Practices white paper, available through Parallels PartnerNet, we explore how best to merchandise web services to two groups of customers – those who are less technically oriented and those who are more technically oriented – as well as providing general merchandising recommendations that apply to all customers. By following these best practices, you’ll be able to maximize your rate of converting browsers to buyers, as well as increasing your revenues.

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eCommerce Made Easy: Check Out This Secure, No-Cost Turnkey Solution

Now you have more ecommerce choices available through Parallels Payment Network. We’re introducing two new PCI–compliant eCommerce services: one from Chase Paymentech and one from Pinnacle Cart.

These two services – both without any startup costs – make Parallels Payment Network the smart choice for hosters who want to meet their customers’ growing demand for eCommerce solutions. If you’re a Parallels Plesk Panel partner and are interested in offering one of these secure, risk-free, turnkey eCommerce solutions, go here for more information. You can also watch the on–demand webinar to learn more about these two solutions.

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Now Available: CloudFlare, for Enhanced Web Performance and Security

CloudFlare speeds up website performance through its global content delivery network: by storing content in multiple locations around the world, it enables pages to load quickly no matter where site visitors are located. The service also enhances security, protecting against online threats ranging from spammers to SQL injection to DDOS attacks – plus it provides website owners with powerful site analytics.

We met the CloudFlare team last year and were impressed with the ease of use of the service (it takes less than five minutes to install), as well as with its results. With CloudFlare, websites load, on average, twice as fast as before and are optimized for fast rendering. In addition, they’re protected against a broad range of threats, and website owners get powerful analytics to help them understand their traffic.

CloudFlare also delivers many operational benefits to service providers: reduced server load, significant bandwidth savings, protection from DDoS attacks, and an automatic IPv4/6 gateway. In addition, it provides monetary benefits, since you can increase your ARPU by reselling CloudFlare to your customers.

We wanted to make it super–easy for Parallels service providers to offer CloudFlare to their customers – and we’ve done that by making it available to all Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4 and Parallels Plesk Panel 11 users via the APS catalog. You can choose from two plans: CloudFlare Free, a no–cost plan; and CloudFlare Performance Plus, offering enhanced services.

Today, over 500,000 websites use CloudFlare. They range from blogs to ecommerce websites, and from SMBs to Fortune 500 companies to governments. Now your SMB customers can be among them. Offer your customers enterprise-level performance and security today – with CloudFlare.