Ensim* Corporation, the leading hosting automation provider, announced today three new European customers that are leading the charge in Europe in using hosting automation as a means to increase profitability and realise greater customer satisfaction. The new European customers for Ensim's ServerXchangeT are Last Digital and Elite Internet, both in the U.K, and 2-Consult in Belgium.

The European Web hosting market is expected to grow from $1.4 billion in 2001 to $5.1 billion in 2004, according to International Data Corporation (IDC). Facing this rapid growth, Ensim's new European customers deployed ServerXchange to capture market share, increase revenue per customer, reduce customer churn and improve customer support. ServerXchange also has advanced reseller capabilities to help service providers drive additional business in the shortest possible time.

"Ensim's value proposition is to enable hosting providers to create new revenue streams and reduce overhead," said David Henderson, Ensim's managing director of Europe. "ServerXchange brings comprehensive hosting automation capabilities to our customers."

With ServerXchange, hosting providers can instantly develop a hosting business using Windows* 2000, Linux or Solaris* as platforms for their servers.

ServerXchange also allows any server to become a Web hosting appliance that runs all the basic programs to start and manage a Web hosting business. Web hosting appliances created by ServerXchange support Web and e-mail services for hundreds of domains on a single server. To empower the entire value chain of users, the browser-based interface has three levels of administration for the hosting provider, reseller and end-customer.

Providers of hosting plans using the ServerXchange hosting operations platform enjoy many benefits such as:

Powerful point and click, remote administration interface for the service provider.
A complete set of automation tools for provisioning, deployment and configuration of servers, customers and hosting plans.
Easy-to-use customer self-administration tools for resellers and end customer.
Mass administration of deployed services.

Last Digital (www.lastdigital.com) is a leading provider of Web-hosting and e-commerce solutions, with lucrative incentives for resellers.

Elite Internet (www.ipsupport.co.uk) has been awarded the contract to deliver Europe's largest ever voice-over-IP network. The company provides hardware and software platforms, online billing, systems integration and branded reseller services.

2-Consult (www.2-consult.com) is a well-established Benelux Hosting company, specialised in domain registration, shared hosting and off-the-shelf dedicated hosting via its "hostbasket" (www.hostbasket.com).