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.

Hosting Reviews – JAIPUR, INDIA – Cloud services enablement leader, Parallels, today announced that India’s fourth largest web hosting company, ZNet has become a Gold Partner.  With this partnership, ZNet will deliver shared web hosting and virtual private servers to small businesses in India using Parallels Plesk Panel 10 and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers. ZNet needed a solution to help its customers, especially the small businesses, gain a strong position in the hosting industry.  It selected Parallels Plesk Panel 10 as it is the industry leading control panel that enables service providers to easily deliver the most profitable services to its entire customer base with the most stable and secure multi-platform hosting control panel at a click of a button. “Parallels Plesk Panel 10 has comprehensive features which enable us decrease time to market, deliver a full suite of cloud services and increase ARPU,” said Munesh Jadoun, CEO, ZNet Technologies.  “By working closely with Parallels, our customers can now focus on IT efficiency and the optimization of internal resources.  They now have the ability to save money and better manage their daily business operations.” ZNet also implemented Parallels Virtuozzo Containers (PVC) to enable its customers to deliver the most profitable, manageable and widest range of virtualization offerings and to help small businesses run business critical applications faster.  According to a survey conducted by research company Tier1 Research, PVC is the leading virtualization solution with 36.7 per cent of the mass-market hosters surveyed choosing PVC as their virtualization technology of choice

A screenshot from a demo of Plesk Panel 10 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Parallels ( www.parallels.com ) announced on Friday that Indian Web host ZNet ( www.znetindia.com ) has becomes a Gold Partner of the company. With this partnership, ZNet will provide shared web hosting and virtual private servers to businesses in India using Parallels Plesk Panel 10 and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers

has become a Gold Partner.  With this partnership, ZNet will deliver shared web hosting and virtual private servers to small businesses in India using Parallels Plesk Panel 10 and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers.

Web Hosting News – UNITED KINGDOM – Titan Internet Limited, a leading UK managed server hosting company and virtualisation specialist, has today announced the addition of Plesk 10 as a self-management solution for all virtual dedicated server and cloud offerings. Described as ‘the most complete, best-integrated hosting and server automation system available anywhere’, Plesk Panel 10 offers the best management and administration tools for dedicated servers available. Plesk Panel 10 has increased performance, offers more comprehensive management tools and a superior central web interface from which to manage virtual dedicated servers.

OneClickSSL is compatible with cPanel’s platform (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – SSL certificate provider GlobalSign ( www.globalsign.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has launched OneClickSSL plug-ins. According to the press release, the announcement was made at the World Hosting Days 2011 held in Germany. To follow the WHIR’s coverage of the event, click here