The first certified eBox Platform course that corresponds to the “eBox for Network Administrators” course was held from the 11th until the 28th of May at the Centro de Tecnologías Avanzadas (CTA) in Zaragoza, Spain. Over 120 applications were received by CTA for the 15 available places.

“I’m very satisfied with the course both because of the opportunities offered by eBox and because of the instructor” said Augustín Raluy, IT Consultant who attended the course. “Until now I was used to work on only some fields of the network and system administration and the course has provided me with a more global view. As eBox Platform unifies the management of all network services through one single, graphic and intuitive control panel, it’s much easier to manage more network services in less time. My aim is to use eBox Platform as a standard solution for the customers that entrust me their computer network and system management”.

The course was aimed at IT professionals with basic knowledge on computer network management, for example, Windows system administrators interested in managing computer networks with Linux based systems. At completion of this 48-hour course, students should understand the concepts behind computer network management and efficiently administer SMBs computer networks with eBox Platform.

“We have carried out a large set of practical excercises with eBox Platfrom, from the simpliest and most common cases to most complex scenarios including multiple machines” said Víctor Jiménez, Certified eBox Instructor, and continued “thanks to the easiness of eBox Platform, the students with no previous experience on Linux have become system administrators with eBox Platform”.

The “eBox for Network Administrators” course is part of the eBox Curriculum Path that currently consists of four different courses and is divided into two tracks, Administrators and Developers. The Administrators track is designed to provide system administrators and IT professionals with the knowledge and skills required to successfully manage SMBs computer networks and multiple eBox Platform installations. The Developer track is aimed at system developers, enterprise application developers and system integrators providing them with the knowledge and skills to develop new eBox Platform modules, prepare customized eBox Platform distributions and integrate eBox Platform with other applications.

Hi fellow eBox users,

We are glad to announce the availability of a new testing version: eBox platform 1.1.10. This is the second alpha for our next stable release 1.2.

This is a great opportunity to check and test the new features that eBox is shipping.

Please, click on here for further information about this release.

eBox Technologies was awarded yesterday with “IDEA Award” as for one of the most innovative business ideas conceived in the region. The Aragonese Institute of Public Works (IAF), CEEIARAGÓN and the Fundación Emprender en Aragón grant these awards yearly in order to promote initiatives that contribute to regional development.

eBox Technologies was nominated yesterday as one of the ten finalists of Innovate!Europe 2009 Edition. The company was the only Spanish finalist of the event and as one of the finalists, Ignacio Correas, CEO of eBox Technologies, was invited to give a presentation on the company in the closing ceremony of the event.

“We feel very privileged for having been selected to participate in Innovate!Europe 2009″ said Ignacio Correas, and continued “during the last three days we have been able to share opinions and to get advice from experts such as Marten Mickos, former CEO of MySQL; Dave Sifry, co-founder of Technorati and John Bautista, partner of Orrick. It has been truly awarding experience and has made us to feel ever more confident of our market orientation and value proposition.”

When asked Marten Mickos’ opinion on eBox Technologies, the former CEO of MySQL answered “I know eBox team and their open source project for quite a long time and I do believe eBox has the potential to disrupt the network server market in a similar way as MySQL disrupted the database market”.

During the spring 2009, over 100 Europe’s most promising startups applied to participate in this three-day program held by serial entrepreneurs, financiers and experts from Europe and United States in Zaragoza (Spain) from the 4th until the 6th of May. eBox Technologies was among the 35 companies selected. In June the Innovate! Europe program continues with an invite-only trade mission to Silicon Valley in which eBox Technologies will also participate to meet high-level audience of venture capitalists, private investors, bloggers and media, facilitating access to financiers, partners and service providers who can further company’s growth.

eBox Technologies is a startup that provides support and services based on eBox Platform, a unified network server that offers easy and efficient computer network administration for SMBs. eBox Platform can act as a Gateway, an Infrastructure Manager, a Unified Threat Manager, an Office Server, a Unified Communication Server or a combination of them. Tight integration of these functionalities allows high automationand important time savings for system administrators. Besides, eBox Platform allows management of different eBox deployments from a central point, making it a very attractive solution for managed service providers.