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.

A screen shot of ZNet’s new technical and hiring support services website, ZNetsupport (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Indian hosting provider ZNet Technologies ( www.znet.com ) announced last week it has launched ZNetsupport ( http://www.znetsupport.com ) to offer dedicated 24-hour server, technical and sales support services to the global clientele. This is the second international venture ZNet has launched in the past three consecutive months, following the launch of its international website, ZNetlive. The new services can be outsourced to web hosting companies for hiring dedicated personnel to manage their technical and sales services.

[unable to retrieve full-text content] 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 …

A screenshot from the MySitebuilder offering on the 1&1 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The UK-based operation of web hosting provider 1&1 Internet ( www.1and1.com ) announced late last week that it has launched two new versions of its business website building and hosting tools, designed to better address the needs of small businesses and entrepreneurs. 1&1 says its MyBusiness website packages are all built around the company’s template-based site-building tool, which enables the fairly simple creation of a kind of bare-bones website based around a selection of business types (such as architect, building contractor, gardener, coffee shop). It’s similar to many of the features Parallels introduced in one of the more recent releases if its Site Builder tool.

A screenshot from the MySitebuilder offering on the 1&1 website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The UK-based operation of web hosting provider 1&1 Internet ( www.1and1.com ) announced late last week that it has launched two new versions of its business website building and hosting tools, designed to better address the needs of small businesses and entrepreneurs. 1&1 says its MyBusiness website packages are all built around the company’s template-based site-building tool, which enables the fairly simple creation of a kind of bare-bones website based around a selection of business types (such as architect, building contractor, gardener, coffee shop). It’s similar to many of the features Parallels introduced in one of the more recent releases if its Site Builder tool

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