Web Hosting – NUREMBERG, Germany – Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and groupware for cloud providers, today announced that it continues to build momentum with Parallels, a worldwide leader in hosting and cloud service enablement, via their cooperative technology development and sales initiatives. The two companies have partnered since 2008 delivering integrated products that work in hosting and cloud computing. “Our work with Parallels has propelled our business and will help us increase from 24 million to 40 million users this year,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange.

A screenshot of Aventure Host’s website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – European web hosting provider Spiral Hosting ( www.spiralhosting.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has acquired domain registration and shared hosting provider Aventure Host ( www.aventurehost.com ). The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. According to the press release, Aventure Host was the first web host in Ireland to offer cloud hosting

Netcraft’s graph showing the number of Amazon and non-Amazon web servers in the past decade (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Amazon has acquired a former supermarket warehouse at Greenhills Industrial Estate near Dublin for the purpose of converting into a data center to meet the needs of its growing cloud computing services, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge . The company recently acquired a 240,000 square foot building that was previously used as a storage house for UK supermarket chain Tesco.  Amazon has also leased space for data center expansion in the Snughborough Industrial Estate in Ballycoolin and the Clonshaugh Industrial Estate, both of which are located in the Dublin area. Amazon Web Services previously opened a facility in Dublin back in December 2008 to house the European availablity zones for its EC2 cloud computing services

In its inaugural Domain Name Industry Report, the Irish registry IEDR says Irish small to medium enterprises (SMEs) remain slow to realise the revenue potential of the internet. The registry believes Irish SMEs need to make greater use of internet technologies to build fully featured e-commerce websites in order to achieve greater competitive advantage online

Verizon Business’s director of strategy Chris Gesell discussed the company’s data center expansion with the WHIR (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed services provider Verizon Business ( www.verizonbusiness.com ) is set to bring its cloud computing strategy into further action with a massive upgrade project of its global data centers around the globe.   Verizon business recently announced that it will bring its cloud computing services suite, which the company calls “Computing as a Service,” into select data centers around the world.   Verizon will also begin offering US government customers CaaS solutions in data centers, as well as add more than 5,500 additional server cabinets for enterprise clients to its facilities.

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — At the Parallels EMEA Partner Forum in Paris, Maziar Zolghadr, who heads the communications sector Software + Services hosting team at Microsoft France ( www.microsoft.com/fr ), said that Microsoft is making major investments for its European cloud users not only in infrastructure, but in its platfrom software, which offers partners even greater options for running their websites and applications. About a year ago, Microsoft opened its first “mega data center” in Europe to meet continued growth in demand for its Online, Live and Cloud services. The $500-million Dublin data center was part of Microsoft’s long-term commitment in the region, and a major step in realizing Microsoft’s Software plus Services strategy.

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