SWsoft Powers IT FACTORY Offering

January 21, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting software provider SWsoft (swsoft.com) announced on Monday that independent software vendor IT FACTORY (itfactory.com) has selected SWsoft Virtuozzo Containers server virtualization software in its IT FACTORY platform-as-a-service offering, a hosted software as a service platform geared for ISVs who develop business applications on IBM open standards technology.

IT FACTORY PaaS will provide ISVs with the infrastructure needed to develop, provision, administer and deploy new and existing SaaS applications, says the company. A one-stop shop for SaaS enablement, the IT FACTORY platform uses SWsoft Virtuozzo to achieve multi-tenancy by providing each SaaS customer with their own copy of a software application running inside a secure environment, saving ISVs the time and expense to rewrite their applications for SaaS. Using IT FACTORY PaaS, customers will also be able to manage their virtual environments more effectively than with a dedicated server.

"SWsoft virtualization and automation software provides powerful technology to help IT FACTORY deliver their PaaS offering," says Michael Gold, senior vice president at SWsoft. "SWsoft is committed to helping ISVs realize the benefits of SaaS by advancing an open platform and the APS standard to help ISVs move rapidly to SaaS."

IT FACTORY and SWsoft are also working to automate additional business processes such as online ordering and invoicing.

Last week, Mark Zbikowski, a former Microsoft architect and pioneer software developer, joined SWsoft as a senior technical advisor.