An image oft he Millenium Knickerbocker Hotel, taken from the venue’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider and data center operator CoreLink Data Centers ( www.corelink.com ) announced on Tuesday that it is sponsoring the invitation only CIOsynergy networking event taking place April 28 in Chicago, at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, and featuring a discussion panel moderated by PBS host Charlie Rose. The invitation only event will run from 1:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.

An image from the Infinitely Virtual website shows features and pricing for its Dedicated Exchange Hosting (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider Infinitely Virtual ( www.infinitelyvirtual.com ) announced on Monday that it has launched an “advanced” version of its dedicated Exchange hosting plan, offering some additional features for advanced users of the service. The company first launched its dedicated Exchange hosting plans last week. The offerings start with a minimum of three virtual dedicated servers in a private VLAN, redundant Active Directory controllers, and an Exchange server

An image oft he Millenium Knickerbocker Hotel, taken from the venue’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider and data center operator CoreLink Data Centers ( www.corelink.com ) announced on Tuesday that it is sponsoring the invitation only CIOsynergy networking event taking place April 28 in Chicago, at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, and featuring a discussion panel moderated by PBS host Charlie Rose. The invitation only event will run from 1:00 p.m

An image from the eApps website illustrates some of the company’s services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Email security solutions provider SpamExperts ( www.spamexperts.com ) announced this week that web hosting provider eApps ( www.eapps.com ) had joined its Hosting Partner Program, in order to provide SpamExperts email security products to its customers. According to the announcement, eApps provides its customers with cloud hosting solutions, making the addition of a cloud-based email security product an easy choice. “We chose the in-house cluster solution Local Cloud which runs directly on our own servers,” says Richard Lingsch, president of eApps, quoted in the press release.

Screenshots of Open-Xchange’s email hosting platform (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source collaboration software provider Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has established a new agreement with Parallels ( www.parallels.com ) that includes six new hosting companies offering Open-Xchange through existing Parallels platforms. This announcement comes a week after Open-Xchange appointed Chris Latterell to vice president of marketing .  “Our work with Parallels has propelled our business and will help us increase from 24 million to 40 million users this year,” Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange said in a statement. “When we committed our company to transition from developing on-premises software to provide software optimized for cloud providers, we started working with Parallels and now we’re moving forward with our second generation agreement.” The six new hosting companies already use Parallels’ products but have added Open-Xchange email and groupware to their services.

Screenshots of Open-Xchange’s email hosting platform (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open-source collaboration software provider Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has established a new agreement with Parallels ( www.parallels.com ) that includes six new hosting companies offering Open-Xchange through existing Parallels platforms. This announcement comes a week after Open-Xchange appointed Chris Latterell to vice president of marketing .  “Our work with Parallels has propelled our business and will help us increase from 24 million to 40 million users this year,” Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange said in a statement. “When we committed our company to transition from developing on-premises software to provide software optimized for cloud providers, we started working with Parallels and now we’re moving forward with our second generation agreement.” The six new hosting companies already use Parallels’ products but have added Open-Xchange email and groupware to their services.

A diagram illustrates Flexiant’s Extility cloud platform network (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – UK cloud solutions provider Flexiant ( www.flexiant.com ) announced on Monday that it has upgraded its cloud platform Extility and has launched IPv6 support. According to the press release, this announcement marks Flexiant “as the first cloud software provider in Europe to announce full commercial support for IPv6.” This announcement comes two weeks after Denmark web host Netgroup deployed Flexiant’s Extility cloud virtualization platform.  Flexiant says Extility 1.3 enables data center operators and the end-user to manipulate virtual resources and ensure they are always deployed where needed. “We completely understand that data centers are restricted by their existing investment in software, hardware and other IT infrastructure,” Tony Lucas, founder of Flexiant said in a statement.

ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on proposed IDN ccTLD string for Yemen. Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-y-en.htm#ye . The IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on 30 October 2009

An image outlining the makeup of the NetApp partner ecosystem (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing company PeakColo ( www.peakcolo.com ) announced on Friday that it has joined the Partner Program for Service Providers operated by storage solutions vendor NetApp ( www.netapp.com ), giving it access to tools and best practices from the company, along with a more direct relationship with that company’s sales and engineering departments. PeakColo says it delivers its infrastructure as a service cloud computing offerings to customers based, in part, on NetApp storage technologies

An image, courtesy of Cisco, of the company’s new Allen, Texas data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Networking hardware maker Cisco ( www.cisco.com ) unveiled its new data center in Allen, Texas this week, a facility that will support the company’s internal private cloud efforts, and its IT as a service offering, as well as serving as a showcase for the company’s own data center technology.