JumpBox – Virtual Appliances Made Easy

JumpBox has a simple goal in life, to make the deployment of server based software so easy, anyone can do it.

To do that, the company is creating a library of pre-installed, pre-integrated open source web applications that are bundled with the JumpBox platform. Using virtualization software like VMware, you simply download these application packages onto your computer, take about 30 seconds to configure everything and then run them. They make easy work of deploying these types of applications.

The company recently announced two new JumpBox bundled applications to their library: Joomla! and SugarCRM.

The Joomla! JumpBox was the most requested application on their download survey. Joomla! is described as one of the more popular content management systems today and is used widely around the world. This JumpBox includes Joomla! version 1.0.12.

The SugarCRM JumpBox comes with SugarCRM version 4.5.1c. If you aren’t familiar with SugarCRM, it is a customer relationship management system that can be used to enhance marketing performance, drive sales, improve customer satisfaction and provide overall insight into business performance.

To make things even easier, JumpBox has recently added (at the request of many users in the company’s forums) a series of tutorials on how to accomplish specific tasks with setting up and working with JumpBox. Specific questions include:

• Run a JumpBox the first time after downloading

• Backup your data

• Restore your data from a previous backup

• Configure the JumpBox to use a proxy

• Change the admin password

• Set a static IP address

• Login to the application itself

These and more tutorials can be found on the Web site or accessed here.

You can find out more about JumpBox and their offerings, here.