The GSA’s new Apps.gov initiative is designed to provide storage, virtualization, and Web hosting solutions to all levels of government in the US. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Infrastructure services provider Eyak Technology ( www.eyaktek.com ) and its enterprise IaaS provider partner Horizon Data Center Solutions ( www.horizondcs.com ) have been awarded a five year, competitively bid contract from the US General Services Administration ( www.gsa.gov ) to provide a suite of virtualized services for the Federal Government Cloud initiative. According to EyakTek’s recent announcement, the awarded Blanket Purchase Agreement, which simplifies the task of obtaining new products and services, is “the culmination of the government’s mandate to move Federal computing to the cloud.” The BPA will let government agencies procure virtualized machines, hosting and storage, through the Apps.Gov portal, which fulfills the government’s mission to move to more efficient, less capital intensive computing solutions

Scott Genereux, president and CEO of Nirvanix (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage firm Nirvanix ( www.nirvanix.com ) announced on Thursday it has appointed Scott Genereux as president and CEO, as well as closed an additional $10 million in capital from primary investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and Windward Ventures. Genereux succeeds Jim Zierick who will continue to serve on Nirvanix’s advisory council. He joined Nirvanix as president and CEO in January 2009

Scott Genereux, president and CEO of Nirvanix (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud storage firm Nirvanix ( www.nirvanix.com ) announced on Thursday it has appointed Scott Genereux as president and CEO, as well as closed an additional $10 million in capital from primary investors Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and Windward Ventures. Genereux succeeds Jim Zierick who will continue to serve on Nirvanix’s advisory council. He joined Nirvanix as president and CEO in January 2009

VaultPress is designed to save WordPress blog content from hosting issues, server errors, and hackers. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed Web hosting firm ServInt ( www.servint.net ) will be a launch partner for VaultPress ( www.vaultpress.com ), an upcoming backup and security scan service for popular blog and website platform WordPress ( www.wordpress.org ), which powers over 30 million blogs and sites. Founded in 2005, Automattic ( www.automattic.com ) created the popular Web hosting service, WordPress.com ( www.wordpress.com ), based on the open-source WordPress project, of which it is a contributor.

ServInt Offers Its Customers Advance Access to New VaultPress Security and Backup Service MCLEAN, Va.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–ServInt, a pioneering provider of managed web hosting for businesses worldwide, today announced it will be a launch partner for the upcoming VaultPress backup and security scan service.

ATG software allows organizations to Streamline their common merchandising tasks using split panes, drag and drop, advanced search, sorting, and filtering.

Open-Xchange CEO Rafael Laguna (shown above) will be presenting the integrated Open-Xchange and SpamExperts solution before an expected 200 attendees at his company’s partner summit next week. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open-source collaboration software provider Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) is partnering with email security provider ( www.spamexperts.com ) to deliver integrated email security to cloud providers that offer Open-Xchange groupware as a Service.

Open-Xchange CEO Rafael Laguna (shown above) will be presenting the integrated Open-Xchange and SpamExperts solution before an expected 200 attendees at his company’s partner summit next week. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open-source collaboration software provider Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) is partnering with email security provider ( www.spamexperts.com ) to deliver integrated email security to cloud providers that offer Open-Xchange groupware as a Service.

As illustrated by this still from a GigaSpaces demo video, GigaSpaces XAP applications can use the Netscaler load balancer, and XenServer infrastructure to dynamically and automatically scale applications based on real time application load. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Application platform provider GigaSpaces ( www.gigaspaces.com ) has partnered with Citrix ( www.citrix.com ) to provide an open and elastic cloud-enabled platform to meet organizations’ application development, deployment and scalability needs

Unified communications software developer eZuce has partnered with Open-Xchange to provide the functionality of a hardware-based IP PBX system using an open-source, software-based approach. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open source email and collaboration solutions provider Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) has partnered with unified communications software developer eZuce ( www.ezuce.com ) to provide Open-Xchange users with the functionality of a hardware-based IP PBX system through eZuce’s open-source, software-based approach. According to eZuce’s announcement this week, the combination of Open-Xchange and eZuce’s open-source UC solution, openUC, provides communications features such as voice, video, instant messaging, presence, conferencing, collaboration, unified messaging, email, call center, calendar and task management.  “This is a terrific opportunity to build on the Open-Xchange collaboration software,” Open-Xchange chief executive officer Rafael Laguna said