Glenn Rossman

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 account within its own Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE), allowing system administrators to limit CPU, memory, and the concurrent connections available to each server tenant. LVE effectively prevents the "bad neighbor effect," wherein one tenant can slow or take down an entire server. By l... (more)

Convirture Reports Strong 2011 as Virtualization Management Takes Off

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, w... (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)

CloudLinux Announces Preferred Partner Program

CloudLinux, Inc., developers of a commercially supported Linux server operating system made specifically for shared hosting, has announced its Preferred Partner Program with VPS.net the first to join. VPS.net, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with operations and data centers all over the world, is part of UK2 Group, which provides web hosting and Internet services to a million customers worldwide. With offices in London and Utah, the UK2 Group employs more than 200 staff. VPS.net provides a high-performance, optimized and scalable cloud hosting service that includes the CloudLinux... (more)

Tech All-Stars Announced as Advisors for Jelastic Software

Jelastic has announced advisors for its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering that runs any Java application in the cloud without code changes. Advisors to the company include: Igor Sysoev who developed Nginx, a popular web server powering 43 million websites and more than 20 percent of the top 1,000 busiest websites including Facebook, Groupon, Dropbox, LivingSocial, WordPress and Hulu. Alex Tkachman, an entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in software development and creator of the Groovy++ Java programming language. He is actively involved in the Groovy and Grail... (more)