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Site Ox Data Centers is announcing the conversion and release of it's automated deployment engine for Unix/Linux systems into a cloud-based service called SOVM vAppliance.  This new service is provided as a virtual appliance and provides customers with the self-service ability to perform automated deployment of Unix/Linux systems such as AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and CentOS Linux.

Site Ox Data Centers, a leader in the industry of data center automation tools for Unix based systems, has packaged their automated deployment engine into a new service offering called SOVM vAppliance.  

The SOVM vAppliance is a Self-Service, On-Demand, Cloud-Based, Automated Deployment system for Unix and Linux based systems.  It provides customers with the self-service ability for non-technical users to deploy new Unix/Linux systems in a dramatically reduced time-frame, and without the need for expensive system/network/SAN administration personnel resources.  The time required to deploy a Unix system is reduced from days or weeks, to minutes.  The personnel resources required to deploy a Unix system is reduced from a system, network and SAN administrator, to none.

The SOVM vAppliance grew out of decades of experience with managing large world-wide data center environments.  One of the benefits of this history is that it provides Site Ox customers with features normally only associated with large commercial hosting environments, such as:


Customers utilize the SOVM vAppliance as a remote virtual appliance that communicates with the customers equipment to automatically configure the virtualization environments, and deploy a Unix operating system.  The customer selects an Operating system, OS version, number of CPUs, amount of memory, and amount of storage they want a Unix system to have, then they submit that request to the SOVM vAppliance.  The vAppliance then communicates with the customers existing equipment to allocate the desired resources and deploy the desired operating system.  Once the deployment is completed the vAppliance notifies the customer of the completed deployment and provides them with the connection information to login to the new system.

Since the SOVM vAppliance utilizes the customers existing infrastructure and platforms, the customers current system administrators are able to oversee and monitor the automatically deployed systems the same as they would a manually deployed system, if so desired.

The SOVM vAppliance is unique in the marketplace today because it is oriented to the non-technical user and it is a remote virtual appliance. All other products are oriented around teams of highly technical administrators, and they require installation, maintenance, and support by these same highly technical administrators.  The SOVM vAppliance is remotely hosted, does not require any technical administration, and is able to build out highly complicated Unix systems in a matter of  minutes, instead of days or weeks.

Also, no other product in the world provides this cross-platform automated deployment capability.  Other products are designed to support a specific Unix OS such as AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, or Linux.  SOVM vAppliance provides automated deployment for all major Unix Systems on a wide range of hardware platforms including PowerPC, PA-RISC, Itanium, Sparc, and Intel.

Additionally, no other product in the world provides the customer with a commercial hosting environment capability to place time limits on systems for leasing, projects, labs, etc.

Site Ox Data Centers is focused specifically on commercial hosting of Unix based systems.  They have developed and utilized this automated data center management mentality in their data centers since it's inception.  The SOVM vAppliance is the packaging of the self-service cloud-based automated management techniques in use by Site Ox today. This service is a natural extension of the processes and procedures Site Ox utilizes every minute of every day in their commercial hosting environment.