Glenn Rossman

During 2011, companies across the globe increasingly embraced open source virtualization and cloud tools - turning to Convirture, maker of virtualization and cloud management software, to manage them. Convirture announced its fifth consecutive quarter-over-quarter growth, including increasing its customer base ten-fold for its commercial product, ConVirt Enterprise. The company now has customers in every global region, including North and South America, EMEA and Asia. The open source version of ConVirt has now been downloaded more than 60,000 times. In total, ConVirt software, which is available for most major Linux distributions including Debian, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu, is now being used by more than 8,000 businesses. "Linux-based virtualization is here, it's real and clearly there is an appetite for something other than VMware when it comes to managing cloud computi... (more)

Open-Xchange Adds Chief Operating Officer

Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software for cloud providers, has announced the appointment of Carsten Dirks as chief operating officer (COO). Responsible for engineering, professional services, support, key account management and administration, Dirks joins a company that grew to more than 42 million users in 2011 - an increase of 75 percent over the prior year - with plans to increase to more than 80 million in 2012. "We have enormous growth potential as our products serve the increasing demand for communication and collaboration software de... (more)

Jelastic Enables Java Applications to be Built and Deployed in the Cloud

Now, using the next-generation platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering Jelastic, it is possible to build and run any Java application in the cloud instead of from a personal computer -- speeding development time and maximizing computing resources. Jelastic allows developers to make code changes and rebuild applications in the cloud, removing the lag time caused whenever files are updated and uploaded from a personal computer. Jelastic can take application source code directly from version control repositories, via either the Git or SVN protocol. Using Jelastic, developers can eas... (more)

Service Providers to Discuss Criteria for Selecting Email Platform

Open-Xchange CEO, Rafael Laguna, will join market research firm Radicati Group and a panel of email platform experts to discuss key trends in the evolution of email platforms. The free web conference, "Email Platforms for Service Providers" is scheduled for Thursday, December 1 at 12:30 pm Eastern for anyone who needs to make decisions about email platform selection and management. Along with Rafael Laguna from Open-Xchange and the moderator and event organizer, Sara Radicati, speakers from Openwave and VMware Zimbra will join the panel. "Email platforms aimed at ISPs and servic... (more)

CloudLinux Announces Support for Atomia

CloudLinux, Inc., developers of the only commercially-supported Linux server operating system made specifically for shared hosting, today announced that CloudLinux OS is now fully compatible with the Atomia software automation platform. "Now, Atomia customers can easily upgrade their operating system to CloudLinux OS greatly enhancing the security and efficiency of their shared hosting businesses," said Igor Seletskiy, CloudLinux CEO. "Better control over computing resources leads to a better overall customer experience and results in lower churn." CloudLinux cages each user ac... (more)