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.

Sander Thonissen, director of EMEA service provider and hosting at HP delivering presentation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The first afternoon session in the Sanssouci room came from Sander Thonissen, director of EMEA service provider and hosting at HP. Delivering a presentation titled “2011: The Year the Cloud Gets Real”, Thonissen discussed 2011 as the year of exciting changes. He said these changes will be driven by three major factors, including technology being ready to deliver, the rapidly increasing and diversifying amount of service providers, and the willingness to adopt cloud services in SMB and enterprise

Sander Thonissen, director of EMEA service provider and hosting at HP delivering presentation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- The first afternoon session in the Sanssouci room came from Sander Thonissen, director of EMEA service provider and hosting at HP. Delivering a presentation titled “2011: The Year the Cloud Gets Real”, Thonissen discussed 2011 as the year of exciting changes. He said these changes will be driven by three major factors, including technology being ready to deliver, the rapidly increasing and diversifying amount of service providers, and the willingness to adopt cloud services in SMB and enterprise.

Website Hosting News – Vancouver, Canada – Hosting Controller leading developer of Hosting Automation Solution today introduces Virtualization Module based on Microsoft Hyper-V & Xen Hypervisor technology to facilitate automatic provisioning of virtualized partitions on both Windows and Linux based servers.

A screen shot of Parallels Automation Suite promo video (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies ( www.softlayer.com ) announced on Wednesday at Parallels Summit 2011 that it has partnered with Parallels ( www.parallels.com ) to offer Parallels Automation Suite with SoftLayer’s fully-automated infrastructure to create a ready-to-go cloud service delivery solution. The end-to-end cloud platform provides immediate access to hundreds of already integrated cloud application services, significantly reducing the time, risk, and expense of getting cloud services to market. The platform is available in fixed packages or customized for large-scale deployments, providing a flexible solution for customers of all sizes.

Web Hosting News – DALLAS — SoftLayer Technologies® , in partnership with Parallels®, today announced the availability of Parallels Automation on-Demand (PAoD), integrating the industry-leading Parallels Automation Suite (PAS) with SoftLayer’s fully-automated infrastructure to create a ready-to-go cloud service delivery solution.