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Open-Xchange offers collaboration suite free of charge

Open-Xchange’s webmail, calendar, and contact infrastructure is now available for free to qualifying partners, who will offer OX’s advanced services to their customers. Open-Xchange hopes that this decision will open itself up to up-selling opportunities, against alternative collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint.

Google will turn a paper mill into a data center

Google is in the process of purchasing a paper mill and turning it into a data center in Summa, Hamina, Finland. This is the company’s first announced data center since the recession began. The sale is expected to be complete by the first quarter of this year.

New data center for BAIS

Bay Area Internet Solutions is building an 83,000 square foot facility in Santa Clara (will be able to house more than 2,000 racks). It is built with environmentally friendly technologies and equipment, and designed to minimize pollution and power consumption.

AtMail updates webmail platform

AtMail has launched a new version of its open-source webmail platform AtMail Open – Version 1.03. The new version supports lightweight webmail client powered by an AJAX interface. The interface is capable of extremely quick, stable and intuitive experience. It also has video mail capabilities which other similar open-source softwares do not have.

Co-Founder of Zend.com named CEO

Zend Co-Founder Andi Gutmans has been named CEO of the company. Gutmans, who served as the senior marketing manager for the last two years, will replace Harold Goldberg who left the company to explore other opportunities. Mark Burton, a former executive VP of sales at a database company, MySQL, will become Zend.com new Executive Chairman.

Limestone launches new enterprise servers

An “Elite Series” line of enterprise servers has been launched by Limestone Networks. This line will consists of Xeon 5400 series, dual processors which can support over 48GB RAM on a single server. The Xeon 5400 series processors operate up to 3.0 GHz and are also equipped with Western Digital RE3 drives.

UK2’s VPS.net cloud hosting beta trial

A beta trial of VPS.net has been launched by the UK2 Group. VPS.net is a cloud system for virtual private environment that is built on RAID 10 storage area network. Customers can customize the package by purchasing nodes, where each node provides 256MB RAM, 10GB SAN storage, 200MHz dedicated CPU and 200GB/month bandwidth.

GoDaddy Super Bowl TV ad among most-watched

Along with Bud Light Lime, GoDaddy.com Super Bowl commercial was seen by the most viewers (103.2 million), as reported by The Nielsen Company. The company has also reported an increase in new customers following the exposure.

FuseMail’s Webmail version 3 goes beta

FuseMail has released the beta version of their third Webmail version. Unveiled at the 2009 Parallels Summit in Las Vegas, the newest version provide their users a better in-browser experience as well as web 2.0 features. The software is already made available to 60 to 70 percent of its customers.

GoDaddy gains new customers after Super Bowl ad

GoDaddy reported a 10% increase in new customers after their 2009 Super Bowl campaign, aired after the final 2-minute warning. The commercial features an IndyCar driver Danica Patrick in the Shower. While the ad caused some controversy, GoDaddy stated two out of three women liked the ad.