09.18.07
Web and Data Hosting on HMC4
We recently completed a project at a UK hoster who needed to offer Web based application hosting allied with value added services such as Exchange-based email, Sharepoint etc. Now, the HMC4 Solution would seem to be the best platform to use as a base for this as it provides all of the automation required for the Exchange pieces (to most tricky bit) but the Solution doesn’t directly support the provisioning of web sites in IIS and databases for customer use on SQL Server 2005.
Until now! My colleague Patrick de Rover did some sterling work and we now have a layered solution which allows for the provisioning of Web and Data Hosting on the same platform as Exchange 2007 and Sharepoint v3. Fantastic! We have already seen interest in this type of installation at a number of other hosters in Europe and I’m really proud that we are pioneering work in this direction. Remember that we can also deliver Terminal Services and Softgrid Support on HMC too, so we are no looking at a pretty solid hosting platform implementation.
These are the good days!
J.
