The company offers Parallels automation software to power shared hosting offerings.

Parallels, a provider of virtualization and automation software, today announced that Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd., a  provider of hosted solutions in Ireland is deploying its Automation to provision their Minimus, Medius and Maximus shared hosting plans. The company states that this technology enables Blacknight to improve its service delivery and save money by automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks such as provisioning, billing and customer maintenance.

"Parallels Automation gives Blacknight the control and manageability to capitalize on the benefits of virtualization, meet the needs of their customers and reduce operational costs associated with configuring servers," said Serguei Beloussov, CEO of Parallels. "We are pleased that Blacknight has selected the Parallels Open Platform and specifically our Parallels Automation solution."

"In the past, Blacknight offered a range of hosting solutions, but the lack of uniformity and automation was extremely inefficient," said Michele Neylon, CEO of Blacknight. "By implementing Parallels Automation, we are able to minimize growing pains while saving time and money by automating simple tasks and conserving system resources."