parallels plesk panel. roadmap and update andrey andriatis chief architect, parallels plesk panel

Parallels Plesk Panel.RoadMap and Update Andrey AndriatisChief Architect, Parallels Plesk Panel

Parallels – Optimized ComputingTM

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Agenda• Product Vision

• Feature Planning

• Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0

• Parallels Plesk Panel Roadmap– Parallels Panel Suite

– Parallels Plesk Panel Planned Features

• Parallels Panel SMB Edition

• Questions


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Parallels Panel Technology: Big Picture

Parallels PleskParallels Plesk

Panel

Billing

Sitebuilder

External Services

APS CatalogParallels

MarketplacePaymentGateway

Domain Registrar

Use

External Systems

Parallels Automation

Parallels Virtuozzo

ContainersBilling

Integrate

Parallels Server

Provisioned Services

Provision

Locally provisioned100s of

APS Applications and Services

Externally provisionedAPS Applications and

Services

Apache

IIS

SSL

ASP.NET

Tomcat

DNS, Firewall

Web Statistics

FTP

Mail (AV/AS)

Web Mail

VPN

and more …

Manage

Internal Functions

Control Panel

Resellers

Customers

Network

Installation / Update

Licensing

Backup/Migration

Events/Notification

Scheduler

Customization Branding/Localization


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• Datacenters – 1000s

• Shared Hosting Administrators – 10,000s

• SMB IT Administrators – 100,000s

Feature Planning – Who Uses PPP• Shared Hosting and SMB users

4 types of Parallels Plesk Panel users•

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• Resellers – 1000,000s

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• Clients – 1,000,000s

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• End Users – 10,000,000s

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• End Users – 1,000,000s


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Parallels Plesk Panel: What is ImportantAutomate Your Hosting Business: Easy, Profitable, and Complete.


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How do we plan features?• Your feedback

– 90% of features are coming from our users

• How it’s evaluated:– Who is the feature for – one of our user category

– Does it matches our paradigm

▪ Make product Easier to use

▪ Make it more Profitable

▪ Make the solution more Complete


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Parallels Plesk Panel 9.0


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Easy: New! Interface and Home Pages• New Home pages for

each user role

• More menu items in left navigation for easy access common functions.

• Configure all settings from a single screen

• Easier navigation between objects

• New Vista-like skin


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Profitable: New! Reseller Role

• Offer New Reseller Plans

• Same functionality as Parallels Plesk Panel Admin.

• Separate billing management

• Customizable look and feel for control panel branding

• Full API Backward Compatibility

DOMAIN

CLIENT

DomainAdministrator

RESELLER

DOMAIN

DomainAdministrator

CLIENT

DOMAIN

DomainAdministrator

CLIENT

DOMAIN

PARALLELSPLESK PANELADMIN


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Profitable: New! Integration with APS Catalog

• Offer and deploy 100s of applications with a single click

• Everything from

http://apsstandard.com/

• Address SaaS Market

• Manage application updates

• Mass provision applications to clients


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Complete: New! Integrated w/Parallels Plesk Billing

• Seamless end-to-end integration with Single Sign On

• Sell, Provision, and Manage Service Plans

• Automate your shared hosting business

Jonathan McCarrick

Parallels Plesk Billing

Technology Track 2:45 - 3:30 pm


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Complete: New! Multi-Level Backup

PARALLELS PLESK PANEL ADMIN

DOMAIN

RESELLER

CLIENT

Web User Mail User

LOCAL DISK /

WORKSTATION

PROVIDER’S FTP /

USER’S FTP

Backup

Backup

Backup

Backup

• Allow users to create full or partial backup for their accounts

• Backup just configuration or include services content

• Store backups locally or outside the Parallels Plesk server


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Complete: New! Dozens of other features

• PHP over CGI/FastCGI• Faster execution of PHP scripts

• Safe execution of PHP scripts

• Choice of PHP version (Windows only)

• lighttpd for Control Panel server

• Easier configuration

• Increased Parallels Virtuozzo Container density

• Multiple MTA Options• Postfix

• Multiple webmail on Unix• Atmail support

• New OS Support• OpenSuSE 11

• Oversell • Administrator, Reseller, Client can

oversell their resources

• Overuse• Administrator and Reseller can

allow their clients exceeding the resource limits assigned to them

• Notification can be issued before a resource limit is reached

• Easy account migration• From domain admin to client, from

client to reseller.


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Parallels Plesk Panel Roadmap


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Split between Shared Hosting and SMB• Shared Hosting and SMB business requires different

approaches

SHARED HOSTING

SMALL BUSINESSES

PARALLELS PANEL

SMB EDITION

PARALLELS PLESK PANEL


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Parallels Panel SMB Edition

• Easy Server AdministrationProvide a complete easily managed IT for small businesses

• APS 1.1 Services for Company EmployeesEasily enhance your server capabilities by adding more APS 1.1 business applications, which become immediately available to the employees based on their roles

• Parallels Marketplace IntegrationBenefit from reselling 3rd party licenses in Parallels or your own online store hosted by PBA solution

• End Users – Company EmployeesEasily manage company employee accounts. Assign their roles, system services and business application access

• File Manager and File SharingManage server file system from the control panel UI. Own your private home directory. Share files within organization and with the external consumers

and more…

Parallels Panel Evolution

• Support APS 1.1 ApplicationsParallels Panel Clients get new services by installing APS applications

• Interface Hosting Services• Expand your offering with special APS packages

providing integration with externally hosted services

• Parallels Marketplace for Panel CustomersGrow your Marketplace revenues now available for the entire Parallels Plesk Panel customer base

• Deep Integration between Parallels Plesk ProductsProvide a complete shared hosting platform featuring hosting plan sales and billing, automated provisioning, easily managed web sites with built in content management solution

• Improvements in Hosting CapabilitiesOffer wider variety of hosting features and capabilities, including IPv6, clustering,

and more….

Parallels Plesk Products Roadmap


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• Provisions APS applications from Parallels Marketplace, APS Catalog, provider’s online store, ISVs directly

• Generates new types of services based on APS meta-data

• Makes services assignable to end users

• Puts application entry points to users’ home pages

Profitable: APS 1.1 Format Support

Parallels Panel

APPLICATION

SERVICE SERVICE

APPLICATION

SERVICE SERVICE

USER’S HOME

SERVICE

USER’S HOME

SERVICE

USER’S HOME

SERVICE

MARKETPLACE

PROVIDER’S STORE

APS CATALOG

ISV


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Profitable: Enabling Hosted Services• Uses APS format to build interfaces between hosted applications

and the control panel user accounts

• Allows for services hosted by providers or ISVs directly


External Services



Marketplace

Panel

ProvisionBilling

Sitebuilder

Use


Services


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Profitable: Parallels Marketplace Integration• Provides participating applications promotion from the control

panel pages

• Forwards Parallels Panel clients to Parallels Marketplace

• Automates purchased application license management

• Automates purchased SSL certificates provisioning


External Services


Parallels Marketplace

Panel

ProvisionBilling

Sitebuilder

Use


Services



CA Authority

SSL

Contact:

Soeren von Varchmin

[email protected]


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Parallels Partner Marketplace – How it Works?

1. Customers view your Brand on Storefront leading to the Marketplace

2. Buy Now Links Inside Parallels Plesk Panel Lead to Marketplace

3. End-Customer Purchases Application on Marketplace

4. End-Customer Returns to Parallels Plesk Panel After Purchase

5. Licenses and Applications are Automatically Installed on Plesk CP Server

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User’s Parallels Plesk Panel Your Brand Storefront viaParallels Business Automation

Application Portal

Parallels Partner MarketplaceCustomer Environment

1. CustomersEnters

Your Store

2. Adds App(s)to Shopping

Cart

3. CustomerMakes

Purchase

4. CustomerLeaves

Your Store

5. App & License are

Auto Installed

1 2 3

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Complete: Parallels Panel Suite• Complete Integration between– Parallels Plesk Panel

– Parallels Plesk Billing

– Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder

• Combined PP Billing hosting and PP Sitebuilder CM plans

• Subscriptions instead of templates in PPP


Panel

Billing

Sitebuilder

Jonathan McCarrick

Parallels Plesk Billing

Technology Track 2:45 - 3:30 pm


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Parallels Plesk Panel Planned Features

• Installer– Componentized Windows Installer

– Rollbacks of failed upgrades

• Flexible DB management. – Attach/detach existing DBs

– Assign private and public databases

– Single DB user for multiple databases

Easy

• IPv6 support

• Hosting management– DNS templates; Service DNS zone; NAT

support

– Web clusters support

– Linux Virtual Server (LVS) support

• Additional FTP accounts

• Mail improvements – Greylisting

– Smarter spam processing

– Archiving mail traffic for specified domains

– SMTP Authorization instead of POP3

– Mail piping

– Password Protected Mailing-Lists

• Security– Site isolation

– Mail certificates

– Secure FTP support

– Apache mod_security support

• Notifications – Customized by Resellers

– Customize notification subject

Complete

Complete


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Parallels Panel SMB Edition


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Parallels Panel SMB Edition Goals• Parallels Plesk Panel 9

– Gained more features supporting shared hosting specifically

– Separated server and sites management

– Separated UI navigation by user roles

• Parallels Panel SMB Edition– Simplifies UI navigation for SMB administrator

– Maintains corporate web sites, mail, databases

– Installs any APS business applications

– Manages SMB employees as service users

– Provides system, collaboration and business services

– Integrates with Parallels Marketplace

– Enables hosting providers selling SMB plans with bundled business applications


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Why Parallels Panel SMB Edition

• Easy– Easy to install, configure, manage company sites, mail, DBs– Easy to service company employees– Easy to add 100s of APS business applications

• Profitable– Gain on high density virtual hosted environment– Sell APS applications and their bundles– Profit on licenses sold on Parallels Marketplace

• Complete– Dedicated all you need virtual business server – Variety of business applications at hand– Integrated CM solution for the business sites


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Easy: Simplified Administration

• Take advantage of lesser hosting objects

• Fewer domains, websites; mail accounts; databases

• No traditional client hierarchy

• Main functions divided into specialized tabs


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Easy: SMB Users and Roles• Panel Users – Company Employees

• Permissions are set by the Roles

• System services are assigned to users and roles

List of Users Role Settings


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Easy: End User Panel

• User can access all applications and services from a single launch pad


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Easy: File Manager and File Sharing

• Fully functional File Manager application for system administrators

• Personal directories access for the employees

• File sharing across organizations and within functional groups

• External HTTP and FTP access to the designated files and folders


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Complete: APS 1.1 Applications• Install APS 1.1 applications from

APS Catalog, Parallels Marketplace, provider’s store

• Application entry points are regarded as new system services

• Initial context configuration may done by system administrator


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Complete

Big Picture: Easy, Profitable, and Complete


Profitable Complete


MarketplacePaymentGateway

Domain Registrar

Parallels Automation

Parallels Virtuozzo

Containers

Panel

ProvisionManage

Billing

Sitebuilder

Billing

Integrate

Use

Parallels Server

Easy




Services

Apache

IIS

SSL

ASP.NET

Tomcat

DNS, Firewall

Web Statistics

FTP

Mail (AV/AS)

Web Mail

VPN

and more …

Control Panel

Resellers

Customers

Network

Installation / Update

Licensing

Backup/Migration

Events/Notification

Scheduler

Customization Branding/Localization


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Questions?


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Thank You!

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