January 30, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Ensim Corporation (ensim.com) said yesterday that its virtual private servers (VPS) option is now available as a standalone offering. Service providers can now purchase the Ensim VPS solution at a low entry price, separate from the Ensim ServerXchange and Ensim WEBppliance. By offering Ensim VPS as a standalone solution with a low entry price, Ensim has dramatically reduced the up front investment and business risk for service providers to begin offering virtual private servers to their customers.
“The goal of releasing our VPS offering as a standalone product is to provide an attractive price and enable hosters to address new markets such as SMBs, developers and programmers” said Steven Dauber, Vice President of Marketing at Ensim. “This new offering enables more mid-market service providers to enjoy the benefits of our industry leading VPS technology.”
The Ensim VPS solution virtualizes a server’s native OS so it can be partitioned into isolated computing environments which operate independently of each other, just like a dedicated server. To the operating system, an Ensim VPS appears to be an application, and to applications, it’s indistinguishable from the native operating system. As a result, an Ensim VPS appears and operates as a physical server to hosting customers.
