The Canadian web hosting provider Cirrus Tech has made available Plesk 9 on its Linux VPS hosting plans. The web host has recently announced the release of Plesk 9 on Dedicated Server plans.

The Sales Manager of Cirrus Tech Mani Aminian has told web hosting media that the company's VPS hosting customers use Virtual Private Servers to host their own customers and to act as Reseller web hosts. "With Plesk 9, there is a new reseller mode that allows Cirrus Tech clients to sign up their own customers and resell web hosting services to them", said Mr. Aminian.

Plesk 9 allows for a complete integration with APS Catalog and Plesk Billing. According to Cirrus Tech, with the integration of Plesk Billing to Plesk 9, VPS owners get complete reseller hosting solution on their VPS.

Cirrus Tech employ Virtuozzo Containers on VPS Hosting plans. The company offers on VPS Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora Core, and openSUSE, on their Linux VPS plans. Plesk 9 is supported on all of the Linux distributions offered by Cirrus Tech.

VMware Infrastructure 3 won this year's technology of the Year Award for the best server virtualization platform. The InfoWorld's magazine award went to the VM producer for the fifth consecutive year.

The infrastructure of the virtualization producer was also named as "Best Overall Cloud Product" and "Best Cloud Platform" at the SYS-CON Event's - Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Show Awards.

The delegates of the International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo organized by SYS-CON voted for their favorite cloud computing solutions in five categories: Best Overall Cloud Product, Best Cloud Platform, Best Cloud Storage Solution, Best Cloud Management Solution, and Best Cloud Application.

"It is an honor to be recognized by IT professionals for the innovation we're bringing to virtualization that helps facilitate and advance cloud computing," said Dan Chu, Vice president of emerging products and markets in VMware.

He also added that the award is an endorsement of his company's efforts in cloud computing.

VMware Infrastructure 3 is the IT industry’s widely deployed virtualization suite. It is used by more than 130,000 customers worldwide. All companies ranked among Fortune's Top 100, as well as 95% of those tah get into the Fortune Global 500 rating use VMware's solutions.

VMware says that its Infrastructure "unifies discrete hardware resources to create a shared dynamic platform, while delivering built–in availability, security and scalability to applications". According to the world's leading full virtualization technology producer its solutions decrease customers' capital and operating costs, increase IT control of applications through service level automation, and empower IT departments.