Hivelocity Offers Dedicated Servers with SWsoft Virtuozzo and Plesk

TAMPA, Fla., September 27, 2007 — Today, Hivelocity announced that it has reached Gold Partner status with SWsoft by offering SWsoft Plesk and Virtuozzo hosting solutions as part of its dedicated server offerings. Currently, the company has several thousand servers online with plans to launch thousands more that include both Plesk and Virtuozzo in several new highly-competitive customer offerings.

"Hivelocity has always strived to be the best value in the hosting industry," said Steve Eschweiler, general manger, Hivelocity. “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.

“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," said Kurt Daniel, vice president of marketing and alliances, SWsoft. “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.

About SWsoft
SWsoft is a global leader in virtualization and automation software that helps consumers, businesses, and service providers optimize their use of technology. 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. For more information, visit www.swsoft.com.

About Hivelocity
Since 2001, Hivelocity has fulfilled on its promise of 99.9 percent network uptime. Hivelocity specializes in dedicated web hosting and co-location providing services to thousands of customers from all over the world.