OnApp Announces Free Cloud Hosting Webinar Series

Online, December 6, 2010 (Newswire.com) - OnApp has announced a series of free webinars where hosting providers can see OnApp's unique cloud engine software in action.

Using a live deployment of OnApp, each webinar will explain the key features that make OnApp one of the fastest-growing cloud platforms on the market, including rapid VM deployment; flexible control of user permissions and limits; utility billing for cloud resources; OS and application templates; and time-saving hypervisor and storage management.

Starting in December 2010, OnApp webinars will be held every couple of weeks at times suitable for hosts in the EU, US and Asia-Pacific. The next sessions are on 15th December 2010:

09:00 - 10:00 GMT (for attendees in Asia-Pacific)
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/506682030

18:00 - 19:00 GMT (for attendees in the US)
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/117234038

For the latest webinar schedule, hosts should check OnApp's web site at http://onapp.com/news_and_events.

Demos will be presented by Carlos Rego, MD of OnApp and Chief Architect of the OnApp cloud engine: "OnApp is the fast, flexible way for today's shared and dedicated hosting providers to build a profitable cloud hosting business," he said. "We designed OnApp to get hosts into the cloud, extremely quickly, and to make cloud management as simple and cost-effective as possible, in order to maximize their margins."

Hosts can use their existing infrastructure or any commodity hardware to build clouds with OnApp. OnApp handles cloud deployment, management, failover, user management and billing. Since its launch in July 2010, OnApp has been deployed at more than 70 hosting companies, who have used OnApp to create 70+ clouds and host over 40,000 virtual servers.