Hosting Controller or Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a commercial automation hosting program created by Advanced Communications of Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 USA. Development of the program began in 1997.

Overview

Hosting Controller Automation Solution is a business and operational support system for hosting service provider

Service provider

A service provider is an entity that provides services to other entities. Usually, this refers to a business that provides subscription or web service to other businesses or individuals. Examples of these services include Internet access, Mobile phone operators, and web application hosting...

s, including shared web hosting for both Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 and Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

. It also supports SaaS

Saas

SAAS is an abbreviation for* Social Accountability Accreditation Services* Software as a service * Student Awards Agency for Scotland* Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences* South Australian Ambulance Service...

 and Enterprise hosting services like MS Exchange, HMC

HMC

- Education :* Harris Manchester College, at Oxford University* Harvard Model Congress, the oldest and largest congressional simulation conference in the world...

 (versions 4.0 and 4.5), SharePoint and BlackBerry Enterprise Server

BlackBerry Enterprise Server

BlackBerry Enterprise Server designates the middleware software package that is part of the BlackBerry wireless platform supplied by Research In Motion...

.

Latest release

HC8, released in March 2009, manages different hosting services in both cluster and simple environments. It provides support for web hosting companies to manage Windows and Linux servers through a unified interface. The major difference in HC8 is the addition of enterprise modules by which Hosting Service Providers (HSPs) can manage and automate enterprise hosting services such as those listed above.

HC Enterprise Modules

HC Enterprise Modules provide interface with programs such as Microsoft Exchange 2007

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products...

. The modules currently available for live production are:

- Microsoft Exchange 2007

- MS HMC 4.0/ HMC 4.5
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server

- SharePoint services

- Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is a multi-lingual Customer Relationship Management software package developed by Microsoft. Out of the box, the product focuses mainly on Sales, Marketing, and Service sectors, but Microsoft has been marketing Dynamics CRM as an XRM platform and has been encouraging...

Support for other applications

Hosting Controller is working to support more enterprise solutions via the addition of modules by the end of 2009. Planned modules include:

- Support for Hyper-V

Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. A beta version of Hyper-V was shipped with certain x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008, and the finalized version was released on June 26,...

- Support for OCS

- Modified and improved version of HMC 4.0/4.5

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