Ensim Offers Automated Solution For Hosted Web Environments

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With its browser-based drag-and-drop capabilities, WEBppliance for Windows promises to significantly reduce the time it takes to develop hosted Web sites, Ensim executives said.

Rather than load Microsoft Internet Information Server onto servers then configure the servers manually according to Microsoft Web-hosting architecture guidelines, WEBppliance's Web-based GUI lets service providers automate the process of setting up, configuring and maintaining Windows-based hosted Web sites.

The software includes four levels of control panels for self-management in areas such as administration and reseller management, Web-based application installation and configuration, and support for Microsoft tools, services and software such as FrontPage 2002 and Exchange.

"We've been wanting a Windows-based solution [from Ensim for a long time now," said Rob Allen, CEO of Web-hosting and managed services provider DataPipe, Hoboken, N.J. "We can now give our resellers an easy way to manage Windows servers and set up Web sites. All in all, they'll spend less time managing their servers and more time building out their businesses."

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DataPipe and 79 other service providers beta-tested Sunnyvale-based Ensim's new offering.

According to a survey by Netcraft of more than 38 million Internet-connected PCs, Microsoft's Web-server software market share rose 4.89 percent to 34.02 percent. This compares to a drop in Apache servers running on Linux by about 5 percent to 53.76 percent market share. And iPlanet slipped to 2.33 percent market share.

The research firm attributed Microsoft's gain to a shift in domain-name parking services of Register.com and Network Solutions from Linux and iPlanet to Microsoft software.

"Some analysts are forecasting that Microsoft will become as popular in the Web-hosting space as Linux within the next three years," said Andy Kim, vice president of marketing at Ensim.

Microsoft's .Net push and the percentage of small businesses now running Windows will contribute to a rise in Windows-based sites, Kim said.