Web Hosting Year in Review: Hosting Software and Technology

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The original promise of cloud computing - computing served as a limitlessly scalable, always accessible, dependable utility - is finally being realized by both consumers and businesses thanks to advances in hosting software and technology, and 2009 has been a crucial year to that effect.

Open-Xchange has made incredible advances in web-based email and collaboration. R1Soft's CDP 3.0 represents the importance of data backup to enterprise customers interested in benefiting from the cloud. Parallels has made it easier for web hosting businesses to manage their hosting, and provide Software-as-a-Service applications. VMware has created what it calls the first cloud operating system. Finally, Windows launched its latest server operating system release, adding features for new server infrastructures. virtualization tools, and web resource management.

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