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.
Two of the web hosts are from Ireland, Blacknight Solutions (www.blacknight.com) and Irish Domains Ltd.(www.irishdomains.com). According to the press release, Blacknight will migrate over 70,000 email accounts to Open-Xchange with the new agreement. Irish Domains will transfer a comparable number of email accounts to Open-Xchange.
A couple of the web hosting providers are from the Asia-Pacific region. ReadySpace (www.readyspace.com) has offices in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia and uses Parallels Operations Automation and will offer Open-Xchange email and groupware to its customers. The other web host, PacHosting (www.pachosting.com) provides hosting services to small and large business in Hong Kong and China.
“Open-Xchange is enabling Parallels hosting partners of all sizes all over the world to add higher-value services to their customers,” John Zanni, vice president of alliances at Parallels stated. “With Open-Xchange’s APS (Application Packaging Standard) integration, service providers can rapidly and easily add business email to their portfolio offerings.”
The remaining web hosting providers are Ovaleye (www.ovaleye.com), a cloud-based company in Duvall, Washington, and Triple Cloud (www.ccc.co.il) in Israel.
At the Parallels Summit 2011 conference in February, Open-Xchange announced that it was offering “tighter integration” with Parallels Plesk Panel 10.1.
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