A diagram illustrating Scality RING, which features a distributed storage model (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Cloud storage firm Scality ( www.scality.com ) and data protection provider CTERA Networks ( www.ctera.com ) announced on Tuesday a partnership to create an integrated scalable cloud-based storage and protection service. This partnership comes two weeks after Scality partnered with cloud software developer Gladinet to provide a cloud-based storage solution to enables cloud adoption for small- and medium-sized businesses. “This integration gives new and existing Scality customers the opportunity to run managed data protection services with CTERA’s hybrid appliances, underpinned by Scality’s massively scalable, high performance and cost-effective RING storage platform,” Jérôme Lecat, CEO of Scality said in a statement.

The American Bankers Association (ABA) and BITS, the technology policy division of The Financial Services Roundtable, are working to prepare the financial services industry for potential new financial generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) and have teamed with VeriSign, Inc. the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, to serve as their exclusive registry operator. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) new gTLD initiative could result in an unprecedented number of new consumer domains.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES, 1 APRIL 2011 – A US-headquartered provider of cloud services solutions has identified a partner in India to help it expand its foothold in the Asia Pacific region. Parallels, which specialises in virtualisation and automation software, said India’s fourth largest web hosting company, ZNet, has become its Gold Partner.

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

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.

A screenshot from Cloud.com’s website of the CloudStack dashboard (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open source cloud computing provider Cloud.com ( www.cloud.com ) and cloud security firm Symplified ( www.symplified.com ) announced on Wednesday a partnership to combine Symplified and Cloud.com CloudStack to enable users to deliver identity and access management security and integration capabilities. According to the announcement, this partnership will provide service providers with single sign-on capabilities to “increase end-user satisfaction and reduce management costs.” The solution is designed for “larger organizations” according to the partners

A screenshot from Cloud.com’s website of the CloudStack dashboard (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Open source cloud computing provider Cloud.com ( www.cloud.com ) and cloud security firm Symplified ( www.symplified.com ) announced on Wednesday a partnership to combine Symplified and Cloud.com CloudStack to enable users to deliver identity and access management security and integration capabilities. According to the announcement, this partnership will provide service providers with single sign-on capabilities to “increase end-user satisfaction and reduce management costs.” The solution is designed for “larger organizations” according to the partners.

A diagram on StillSecure’s website illustrates its managed email security solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Managed network security solutions provider StillSecure ( www.stillsecure.com ) announced on Monday at the Cloud Connect conference that it will provide its suite of security and certified compliance solutions for CoreSite’s ( www.coresite.com ) data center customers. This partnership comes a week after StillSecure announced its partnership with communications service provider XO Communications to provide security solutions. Customers at each of CoreSite’s 11 data centers across the US will have access to StillSecure’s solutions.

A diagram on StillSecure’s website illustrates its managed email security solution (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Managed network security solutions provider StillSecure ( www.stillsecure.com ) announced on Monday at the Cloud Connect conference that it will provide its suite of security and certified compliance solutions for CoreSite’s ( www.coresite.com ) data center customers. This partnership comes a week after StillSecure announced its partnership with communications service provider XO Communications to provide security solutions.

A screenshot of the Incoming Email Security Firewall cluster admin control panel (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Email security provider SpamExperts ( www.spamexperts.com ) announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with managed hosting provider Netcetera ( www.netcetera.com ). In January , UK Web host EZPZ Hosting deployed SpamExperts incoming mail filers on all its shared and reseller hosting accounts