SWsoft Branches Out into Virtual Linux Hosting

...So SWsoft Inc has repurposed its Virtuozzo server consolidation technology and launched into the hosting business, aiming at Ensim.

It worked on the stuff for 18 months and before going GA earlier this month with its first real product, dubbed HSPcomplete 2.0 to distinguish it from what it called an initial “dumbed-down prototype,” it had the stuff in a controlled release with some 30 customers for six months while it still tinkered with features.

Apparently the tactic worked and SWsoft is supposed to announce that Cable and Wireless, which bought Exodus, when the famous web hoster fell over, is taking the stuff on. C&W is reportedly going to test it out in Russia, then Europe and if it works out, add it to the Exodus line.

SWsoft claims the test phase ensured “rock-solid reliability and carrier-grade scalability.”

HSPcomplete, which is currently selling for a relatively cheap promotional $5,000 a pop, is supposed to be able to handle 150-200 live customers on an Intel eight-way, 10 times what rival Ensim can supposedly do, because of its full partitioned instances of Red Hat Linux. An Intel four-way, SWsoft said, should support 100-150 live customers...