Tampa, Florida - (The Hosting News) - October 8, 2007 - Virtualization software company, SWsoft, has been chosen by web hosting firm, Hivelocity, to support its dedicated servers, with SWsoft's Virtuozzo and Plesk.

Reaching Gold Partner status, currently Hivelocity has several thousand servers online with plans to launch thousands more that include both Plesk and Virtuozzo in several new highly-competitive customer offerings.

Steve Eschweiler, General Manger at Hivelocity explained, ''Hivelocity has always strived to be the best value in the hosting industry. This new status with SWsoft gives us more flexibility to create new competitive offerings.''

The company intends to continue its leadership in the dedicated hosting space with highly-competitive VPS offerings that provide customers with new levels of value. Hivelocity will launch VPS hosting solutions based on Virtuozzo within the next few weeks.

Kurt Daniel, Vice President of marketing and alliances at SWsoft added, ''We are pleased to see Hivelocity reach the Gold Partner level and continue their track record of differentiation with competitive SWsoft Plesk and Virtuozzo software solutions. With these solutions and through our OPEN FUSION initiative, Hivelocity will be able to optimize the delivery of software as a service (SaaS) and traditional hosting services to take advantage of emerging market opportunities.''

OPEN FUSION is an SWsoft technology initiative to improve integration among a wide range of systems, third-party applications and modules, and custom and in-house solutions. The OPEN FUSION platform enables optimized delivery of SaaS and traditional hosting services to help ISVs and service providers take full advantage of new opportunities in the market.

SWsoft is a virtualization and automation software firm with solutions designed to assist consumers, businesses, and service providers optimize technology use. The company's software powers more than 130,000 servers and 600,000 desktops worldwide. The SWsoft product line includes Virtuozzo - the leading operating system virtualization solution, Parallels - the leading desktop virtualization product, and Plesk - the leading server control panel. Founded in 1999, the company has offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

Since 2001, Hivelocity has offered 99.9 percent network uptime, specializing in dedicated web hosting and co-location, providing services to thousands of customers from all over the world.

To learn more about Hivelocity, please visit: www.hivelocity.net.


To learn more about SWsoft, please visit: www.swsoft.com.


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