Hostway Partners with Industry Leader Parallels to Deliver First Turnkey Public Cloud Servers for Resellers

Parallels Partners Can Now Seamlessly Bundle FlexCloud Servers Within Parallels

Automation to Create Integrated IaaS Solutions
CHICAGO, IL - September
11, 2013 - Hostway, a leading provider of cloud, managed
and hybrid hosting
services, today announced the Application Packaging Standard
(APS)
integration of its FlexCloud Servers (Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or
IaaS),
public-cloud hosting suite, in partnership with Parallels, a global
leader
in hosting and cloud services enablement and cross-platform solutions.
The
announcement comes as Hostway will exhibit its solutions for the evolving

cloud marketplace at Booth #325 at the Cloud Partners event held September
11-13
at McCormick Place in Chicago.

Collaborative service delivery
models are an emerging trend in the cloud
marketplace as the technology
community seeks efficient, cost-effective methods
to provide best-in-class
services to end-users. Hostway’s partnership with
Parallels creates an ideal
option for service providers seeking to increase
cloud-based revenues by
bundling with existing product and service portfolios to
create an end-to-
end solution. Parallels Automation partners can now leverage
Hostway’s
FlexCloud Servers APS integration to offer an affordable, turnkey,

enterprise-class IaaS public cloud service to customers and resellers.


'By adding Hostway's FlexCloud to the APS library, we're offering service

providers an opportunity to meet growing reseller and business customer
demand,'
said John Zanni, Vice President of Marketing and Alliances for
Parallels. 'It's
also an opportunity to be a part of an industry - wide
collaborative effort to
deliver advanced, high - demand cloud services to
end - users while expanding
the partner's product and service
portfolio.'

The demand for public cloud services continues to grow. A
recent Gartner report
predicts growth in excess of 18% this year for a total
of $131 billion, with
IaaS representing the fastest-growing market sector.
Growing demand gives
resellers an opportunity to capture a portion of the
growing cloud market as an
alternative to existing public cloud operators by
utilizing pay-as-you-go,
cloud-based services to host an existing CRM
solution, creating an SaaS offering
that allows businesses to generate a new
instance for each customer, which would
create higher profit margins and
enable seamless management. Resellers could
also bundle public cloud hosting
with ecommerce applications to increase their
revenue share.

The most
readily available public cloud offerings in the Parallels catalog,
Hostway's
FlexCloud Servers offer high - availability features such as automated

failover of instances, fully redundant host, network and storage hardware
and
enterprise - class Storage Area Networks to maximize performance and

reliability. The Hostway - Parallels partnership enables resellers to offer
an
array of advanced features, including user - configurable firewalls and
load
balancing, IP address management, image cloning and snapshots, managed
backup
and other enterprise - class capabilities. The FlexCloud Server
OpenStack -
compatible API enables users to automate, customize, access,
manage and resell
cloud services and solutions. A proven solution from a
Microsoft Gold Certified
Hosting Partner, Hostway's FlexCloud Servers are
ideal for value - added
resellers, independent software vendors, system
integrators, developers and
more, empowering them to offer a comprehensive
cloud-delivery environment.

'In the rapidly evolving cloud services
market, collaboration is the key to
success. We're thrilled to work with an
industry leader like Parallels to give
partners new ways to customize,
bundle and seamlessly deliver the cloud
applications and scalable
infrastructure solutions customers demand,' said Todd
Benjamin, Vice
President of Hosted Services. 'By enabling delivery of cloud
services in a
Parallels environment, Hostway provides ecosystem partners with a
low risk,
quick-to-market path to leverage their own channels to grow their
businesses
and offer an end-to-end solution.'

The first Hostway APS offering
available in the Parallels ecosystem, FlexCloud
Servers are part of a larger
portfolio of cloud infrastructure and application
products the company plans
to roll out via its partnership with Parallels.
Future service syndication
launches that are being considered include unified
email and collaboration
platform services, ecommerce hosting plans, and cost-
effective Virtual
Private Servers (VPS) among other cloud applications.
Parallels partners can
bundle Hostway services at a significantly reduced cost
of implementation
and ongoing administration.

For more information on Hostway APS
integration with Parallels, visit Booth #325
at the Cloud Partners
conference, or visit
http://www.hostway.com/parallels/cloud-hosting-
reseller/.