Introduction to Ensim Unify

Ensim Unify is the leading carrier-grade multi-service hosting solution. It is a flexible hosting automation infrastructure through which hosting service providers can manage multiple Windows® services, such as Hosted Exchange 2003, SharePoint and .NET Web hosting. It addresses critical operational challenges for provisioning, monitoring, metering, self-management, authentication, and integration, and it is the first hosting platform to offer “out-of-the-box” support for ASP.NET Web site hosting.

Ensim Unify is designed to deliver the reliability, scalability, and performance that are key to successfully offering mass-hosted services to a large and growing market. The system's modular architecture makes it a turnkey solution that can also be integrated with a service provider's or reseller's existing operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) using the Ensim Unify API.

Ensim Unify has the following components (Illustration):

When a service is sold to an organization, the server space and other resources required to provide the service are allocated from a hosting server. Service providers have one or more hosting servers for each service, and each service is installed on a separate server. Hosting servers cannot have more than one service installed on them.

Resellers who purchase hosting servers can manage these servers through the reseller control panel.