Web Hosting News – ORLANDO, FL. – Parallels, a global leader in Cloud services enablement and desktop virtualization software, today announced the promotion to CEO of current company President Birger Steen.  Steen has been charged with managing and accelerating the growth Parallels has experienced in recent years.  The profitable company generates more than $100 million in revenue

Web Hosting News – ORLANDO, FL. – Hosting and Cloud service enablement leader Parallels today announced it is positioning itself for the growth in small and medium business cloud consumption with the introduction of new strategic Cloud Infrastructure and Hosted PBX solutions, as well as support for  Microsoft Office 365 Syndication and Hyper-V Cloud.

Web Hosting News – RENTON, WA – Cloud services enablement leader, Parallels, today announced the finalists in its second Annual Partner Awards.  Winners will be revealed at the Parallels Summit 2011 ( www.parallels.com/summit ), February 23-24 in Orlando, Florida. The Parallels Partner Awards recognize and celebrate partners that have achieved outstanding success using Parallels products, solutions and services throughout the year to increase customers’ sales and revenue. As SMBs move to the Cloud in droves, it is essential that companies drive efficiency to accelerate growth, become a full service provider to grow profitability and reduce churn and partner with established companies with differentiating skill-set.

A screen shot of the newly relaunched 4PSA website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing software developer 4PSA ( www.4psa.com ) announced on Monday it has launched a new website, as well as introduced new back-end automation and global branding solutions that “emphasize both the company culture and the marketing strategy.” 4PSA has seen significant growth in the past year, having expanded last year into the US and  Rotterdam, Netherlands markets. The two dominant colors of the 4PSA brand are now green and orange, which the company says reflects its “vibrant energy and commitment to the core values of life.” The company says it translates these concepts in its cloud computing software products, which allow people to communicate and collaborate with the help of Unified Communications

A screen shot of the newly relaunched 4PSA website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud computing software developer 4PSA ( www.4psa.com ) announced on Monday it has launched a new website, as well as introduced new back-end automation and global branding solutions that “emphasize both the company culture and the marketing strategy.” 4PSA has seen significant growth in the past year, having expanded last year into the US and  Rotterdam, Netherlands markets. The two dominant colors of the 4PSA brand are now green and orange, which the company says reflects its “vibrant energy and commitment to the core values of life.” The company says it translates these concepts in its cloud computing software products, which allow people to communicate and collaborate with the help of Unified Communications

A screenshot of BackupAgent’s platform control panel (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Automation and virtualization software developer Parallels ( www.parallels.com ) announced on Monday that it has partnered with online backup service provider BackupAgent ( www.backupagent.com ) to integrate Parallels Automations and Business Automation Standard with the online backup platform. “We decided to integrate with Parallels Automation last year when we realized that many of the service providers and telecommunications companies  signing up for our service were also using Parallels Automation, and making a change to Parallels would cut our time to market significantly,” Roland Sars, co-founder of BackupAgent said in a statement

A screenshot of BackupAgent’s platform control panel (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Automation and virtualization software developer Parallels ( www.parallels.com ) announced on Monday that it has partnered with online backup service provider BackupAgent ( www.backupagent.com ) to integrate Parallels Automations and Business Automation Standard with the online backup platform.

Hosting News – RENTON, WA – Cloud services enablement leader, Parallels, today announced that its partnership with BackupAgent has enabled a multi-million dollar revenue growth for their mutual customers since integrating Parallels Automation and Parallels Business Automation Standard with BackupAgent’s online backup platform. On the heels of the successful integration with Parallels Automation, BackupAgent launched an integration module for Parallels Business Automation Standard ensuring that the delivery of online backup services through Parallels’ platforms is easy and profitable. “We decided to integrate with Parallels Automation last year when we realized that many of the service providers and telecommunications companies signing up for our service were also using Parallels Automation, and making a change to Parallels would cut our time to market significantly,” said Roland Sars, co-founder of BackupAgent

A screen capture of an HP video on HP Secure Cloud Services-Compute (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — HP ( www.hp.com ) announced on Tuesday it has released a suite of new cloud products and services designed for businesses and governments.

A video still from a demo of CA’s automation suite showing the control panel for its Server Automation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – IT management software and solutions provider CA Technologies ( www.ca.com ) announced on Monday the general availability of three key products in its CA Automation Suite: Configuration Automation r12, CA Process Automation r3, and CA Server Automation r12. Launched in October , the Suite is designed to ease customers into a virtualized, cloud computing environment and increase business agility, reduce cost and risk, and improve service delivery