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Clustered file system allows Atmail Server and Atmail Webmail to scale to hundreds of petabytes

May 27, 2010 – Atmail, a leading developer of software applications for email messaging and collaboration, today announced the successful completion of integration and interoperability testing of GlusterFS. “We are continually seeking ways to bring new services and reliability to our customers”, said Ben Duncan Atmail CEO. “Interoperability with GlusterFS allows customers to have greater scalability and resiliency by running multiple copies of Atmail at the same time. With the Gluster file system, failover, striping, replication, and load balancing for your Atmail servers are a breeze to implement.”

GlusterFS is a scalable open source clustered file system that offers a global namespace, distributed front end, and scales to hundreds of petabytes without difficulty. By leveraging commodity hardware, Gluster also offers extraordinary cost advantages benefits that are unmatched in the industry. GlusterFS is the core of the integrated Gluster Storage Platfor msoftware stack.

“GlusterFS is designed to be easily integrated with third party products to create enhanced solutions”, said Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Gluster CTO. “We are excited to be working with Atmail as we expand the Gluster ecosystem.”

“Atmail has always been very scalable. Using GlusterFS our customers now have a simpler way to cluster Atmail servers, achieving redundancy and nearly unlimited scalability.” added Jason Brown, Atmail CTO “A distributed file system , such as GlusterFS, is essential for highly available and scalable mail server clusters.”

Atmail Email Server is a complete mail server platform, includes support for SMTP, POP3 & IMAP protocols. Also included are a Groupware Server with iCal/CalDAV support, a Webmail Client, Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus Support and a comprehensive WebAdmin interface.

About Gluster:

Gluster is exclusively focused on simplifying the task of storing and managing the explosion of unstructured data and transforming the economics of storage. Gluster Storage Platform is an open source clustered storage solution that runs on industry standard hardware, delivering multiple times the scalability and performance of conventional storage systems at a fraction of the cost. Gluster Storage Platform is used in a wide range of industries including digital media, healthcare, video-on-demand, internet, energy, and biotech. For more information please visit www.gluster.com.

About Atmail:

Atmail develops email messaging and collaboration solutions. Products include, Atmail Cloud Services, Atmail Webmail, Atmail Email Server, Atmail Email Server Appliance, Atmail ArchiveVault and Atmail ArchiveVault Appliance. The company has more than 4,000 customers worldwide, including many international companies, universities, service providers and government agencies. Atmail now has over 15 million users.

(The Hosting News) – Ann Arbor, Mich. – NEXCESS.NET, a provider of shared hosting, dedicated servers, colocation and server clusters, announced today the expansion of its backup services making R1Soft Continuous Data Protection® (CDP) available to its entire client base.

R1Soft’s enterprise-level backup solution protects NEXCESS.NET clients’ mission-critical data on Linux and Windows servers with near-continuous, disk-based backups which can be scheduled as often as every 15 minutes. Clients will also benefit from maximum uptime with Bare-Metal Restores, which skip the OS reinstallation step, allowing data to be recovered from any point-in-time backup within minutes.

NEXCESS.NET will offer R1Soft backup access through the newly integrated InterWorx Control Panel to all shared hosting clients for free and will be offering managed backup services to its VPS and dedicated clients as well.

“Our initial deployment of R1Soft demonstrated how easy-to-use the software was and how simply it just worked. The recent integration of R1Soft CDP with the InterWorx control panel was crucial to our backup services expansion because now we can centralize our entire backup system and provide a more complete offering for our clients. We are very pleased with the outcome and anticipate even further expansion if all goes accordingly,” said Chris Wells, CEO of NEXCESS.NET.

R1Soft’s disk-based CDP software works by reading data at the sector level and only recording data that has changed since the last backup. This type of incremental backups empowers NEXCESS.NET with the ability to offer clients high-performance backup services they can truly depend on without experiencing a negative impact on server performance.

About NEXCESS.NET

NEXCESS.NET is an Ann Arbor, Mich. based company specializing in Web Hosting solutions, offering a range of services from shared hosting to multi-server configurations. NEXCESS.NET provides custom hosting solutions for traffic-heavy and high-profile websites of all genres. NEXCESS.NET owns and operates its own private data center in Dearborn, Mich. and currently services thousands of clients worldwide.

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