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.

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A screen shot of the Savvis Alliances Program page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider Savvis ( www.savvis.com ) announced details about its cloud-focused global Savvis Alliances Program ( www.savvis.com/alliances ) for channel partners. The move comes more than a month after the company launched its Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center , which will be available in its Singapore data center in the second quarter of 2011. The multi-level program allows Savvis alliance partners to offer Savvis cloud services, as well as managed hosting, colocation, network services and managed security services, to their customers.

The incredible game of duping the USPTO to get single letter .com trademarks. Did you know Amazon.com has a registered trademark for A.com? It’s true.

An image of Stephen Harrison, general manager of APAC at ControlCircle (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Data center and managed services provider ControlCircle ( www.controlcircle.com ) announced on Thursday that it has introduced a rapid deployment DDoS mitigation service for SMEs and global enterprises. This launch comes two months after the company opened its Asia-Pacific operations in Singapore . According to the press release, ControlCircle offers a scalable, fully-managed and integrated DDoS to protect from malicious cyberattacks

Yahoo’s data center in Lockport, New York (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Yahoo has revealed plans to invest $500 million in expanding its data center infrastructure, according to a report Friday by Data Center Knowledge.

An artist rendering of Digital Realty’s new data center in Singapore’s International Business Park (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – The Singapore government has commissioned a study to understand the energy consumption and environmental performance of data centers in the US, according to a report by ZDNet Asia. Commissioned by the National Environment Agency, the study will be conducted by HP and supported by local ICT regulator the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA). According to the report, the study will analyze energy usage patterns and operating conditions of data centers, evaluate current green data center metrics and identify areas of standardization

Yahoo’s data center in Lockport, New York (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Yahoo has revealed plans to invest $500 million in expanding its data center infrastructure, according to a report Friday by Data Center Knowledge. Yahoo says it plans to build in 2012 and beyond. The planned expansion includes existing data centers in Buffalo, Omaha and Washington state and new facilities in Singapore and Switzerland

An artist rendering of Digital Realty’s new data center in Singapore’s International Business Park (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – The Singapore government has commissioned a study to understand the energy consumption and environmental performance of data centers in the US, according to a report by ZDNet Asia. Commissioned by the National Environment Agency, the study will be conducted by HP and supported by local ICT regulator the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA). According to the report, the study will analyze energy usage patterns and operating conditions of data centers, evaluate current green data center metrics and identify areas of standardization