Movers & Shakers

Dr. Beloussov—yes, he also has a doctorate in Computer Science, not counting his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Physics—is a self-made entrepreneur that has founded a number of hugely successful tech companies, among them Acronis, Rolsen, Solomon Software SEA and Acumatica.

“It is an honor to be on this list, and a testament of how cloud computing, specifically cloud IT services for small businesses has become the leading force in the IT sector,” says Serguei.

Serguei is recognized within the fields of business and technology, and many people know him as the guy that founded Parallels. What you may not know is that Parallels is only one of many successful enterprises that he has been a part of. All of the companies that he has founded and helped mold have been products of his vision to provide “optimized computing.”

His vision for “optimized computing,” as he called, it started before he founded Parallels. Parallels was merely a vehicle for that vision. He saw computing moving towards automation, virtualization and minimization of cost: the cloud before it had the name “cloud.” In 1999 he started SWsoft (the precursor to Parallels) as an answer to the problems he saw with personal and server computing.

It wasn’t long before others began to catch the vision and wanted what Parallels was offering: for many years, Parallels was doubling their revenue year-to-year. The Cloud that we all know and use for everything wouldn’t be possible without automation and virtualization. Things like scaling, server fail-over, one-click installations and dynamic resource allocation wouldn’t be available without the kind of products Parallels was making in its early days.

One of the industries to most benefit from the move to automation and virtualization, as Serguei saw it, was the web hosting industry. Automation and virtualization are the basis behind the biggest moves in hosting, from dedicated servers to shared servers to virtual machines in the cloud. The “optimized computing” that Serguei foresaw and then his companies developed the answers to made it cost effective for web hosters to provide higher level service through full-automation of routine tasks—like server provisioning, scaling and assignment—and virtualization of the server.

The Cloud as we know it—the cloud made of up all the public and private clouds across the globe—is made of a network of automated and virtualized data centers. This cloud of hosters around the world is what makes of The Cloud.

Jelastic allows developers to focus on building their applications, and not have to worry about buying servers, creating environments, configuring the OS, configuring the App Servers, configuring databases and then finally deploying code. Jelastic turns all these steps into a simple, one-click process. All the mundane things that waste time and money—like maintenance, configuration and upgrades—are automated in Jelastic.

Part of the next wave in Cloud Computing will be the elimination of lock-in that has been a problem with previous PaaS offerings. Jelastic is standard and doesn’t lock a developer into coding their App for the platform or having to change their code to change service providers. With Jelastic, developers can go between hosting service providers and not have to change their code, just upload and go!

“We are excited for Serguei and are glad that he is part of the Jelastic Team,” says Ruslan Synytsky, CEO, Jelastic. “We look forward to his continued success and recognition for his hard work. Jelastic is lucky to have him. We are excited about the future of computing and believe that Jelastic will help lead the way.”