Aruba Partners with SWsoft (January 16, 2007) - Server virtualization and automation software provider SWsoft (swsoft.com) announced on Tuesday it has signed a deal with the main Web hosting provider in Italy and the Czech and Slovakian Republics, Aruba (aruba.it), to offer hosting services powered by SWsoft Plesk and Virtuozzo software.
The agreement with SWsoft will enable Aruba to customize, extend and integrate SWsoft hosting automation products and software components into its hosting environments and into Aruba's shared hosting group companies. Aruba says it trusts SWsoft technology open fusion initiative to move its entire line of products to a common platform to advance integration among a wide range of systems, third-party applications and modules and custom and in-house solutions.
"We are delighted that our solutions have been chosen by a company of the caliber of Aruba," says Soeren von Varchmin, managing director for SWsoft's European and Asian operations. "The agreement with Aruba is of special significance to us because it confirms that our products offer advanced functionality and superb reliability. We are also working hard to ensure that SWsoft consolidates its position in the Italian market through a new distribution network."
SWsoft also recently announced it has made significant updates to its PEM data center automation solution in response to feedback from some of its largest hosting customers.
Windows Server 2003 Use Overtakes NT4 (February 16, 2004) - The number of servers running the Windows Server 2003 operating system now outnumbers those running Windows NT4, according to the results of Netcraft's (netcraft.com) February Web server survey.
Based on the survey's data, a total of 1.25 million hostnames are running Windows Server 2003, an increase of 283 percent since August of last year. Netcraft said the majority of the sites currently running Windows Server 2003 migrated from the Windows 2000 platform while another 55,000 sites migrated from Linux, 56,000 from FreeBSD and 8,000 from Solaris. The number of new sites running Windows Server 2003 was 272,000.
Netcraft's survey found UK-based host Fasthosts (fasthosts.co.uk) to be the largest host of Windows Server 2003 sites with 54,378. Myhosting.com (myhosting.com) was second with 32,664, followed by CrystalTech (crystaltech.com) with 23,298, Aruba (aruba.it) with 16,938 and 1&1 Internet (oneandone.co.uk) with 15,240.
According to Netcraft's February Web server survey, which covered 47,173,415 hostnames, Apache was running on 67.21 percent of the over 47 million hostnames surveyed, while Microsoft platforms ran on 20.88 percent. SunOne and Zeus followed with 3.51 and 1.60 percent respectively.
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