Management software, web hosting

Ingram Micro acquires Odin products from Parallels

Today, Parallels announced that IngramMicro has acquired the Odin brands and products including Odin Service Automation, Odin Business Automation Standard, Odin Plesk Automation, various management systems like H-Sphere, Helm, Sphera, ModernBill and APS2.

Plesk and Virtuozzo will remain with Parallels and will operate as separate companies in the future.

Plesk is the most advanced administration system for Web hosting solutions and is used by most providers.
Virtuozzo is a virtualization environment for creating virtual machines or containers with shared resources.

Odin press release

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