Oracle Turns its Opinion around on Solaris support

Data center pros viewed Oracle's current call to support Solaris running on Hewlett-Packard and Dell hardware with great interest. They hope the news -- made public in a release that further said HP and Dell can resell Solaris OracleVM and Oracle Company Linux -- signals new pragmaticism and suppleness on the part of a company they feared was becoming ever more exclusive.

The support move an about face from an earlier posting exclaiming that Oracle wouldn't support Solaris on non-Sun hardware. That change-of-management memorandum from May released support offerings from Oracle -- none of which were to be available on non-Oracle / Sun hardware. The perception that Oracle isn't precisely friendly to 3rd party sellers or the opensource community led straight to plenty of amazement, including the apparent rebellion of the OpenSolaris community over how Oracle is handling the OpenSolaris effort.

Voxel Chooses Equinix to Support Growth of Cloud Based Services Across 8 Strategic Metropolitan Areas

Equinix, Inc. (NDX : EQIX), a supplier of global data center services, announced today that Voxel, a frontrunner in highly scalable, composite Web framework, has settled on Equinix to support the enlargement of its VoxCLOUD service.
Voxel utilized its new cloud offering inside Equinix Global Business Exchange ( IBX ) data centers thanks to the superb performance Equinix has supplied in the ten years that Voxel has been a consumer. With Equinix, Voxel was ready to swiftly and effectively build out its cloud platform, assisting them to successfully tap into the growing market for cloud services across 8 strategic urban areas :

i/o ANYWHERE, i/o Data Centers’ next generation data center platform

i/o Data Centers, a provider of enterprise data center solutions, made an announcement about the launch of i/o ANYWHERE - the next-generation data center platform. While announcing this, George Slessman, Chairman of i/o, explained that, “It is no longer necessary for customers to buy power, cooling, and network connectivity ahead of known requirements or in a location that is not ideal. i/o ANYWHERE™ gives enterprise customers the ability to deploy operational data center capacity wherever and whenever they need it, in or out of a building, on or off the utility grid. Our enterprise customers can now acquire data center capacity the same way they do processing, storage and network – when they need it.”

New Generation of Data Center Class WAN Optimization Appliances Announced by Silver Peak Systems

Silver Peak Systems the front runner in data center class Wide Area Network optimisation, announced today the provision of new hardware variants of the NX-8000 and NX-9000 appliances that maximise Dismal optimisation performance while minimizing the environmental expenses associated with data center deployment. With the newest variations of Silver Peak's prize-winning NX appliances, the Firm has made a new standard for data center class Dismal optimisation, which is a key enabler for catastrophe recovery, data center consolidation, data migration, server centralization, virtual desktops, and other key IT initiatives.