Something Rather Special...

In September 2011, ACC International Ltd. became the first and ONLY company in the UK to achieve Oracles coveted Oracle VM ’Specialist’ accreditation! WOW!

ACC signed up as Oracle Gold level partners in the summer of 2009 as we had been extremely impressed with the near native performance of Oracle’s server virtualisation offering  - ’Oracle VM’. Soon after this discovery was made - Oracle acquired Virtual Iron Inc., the makers of our existing private cloud platform. So understandably - we wanted to be first in line for the new product.

While waiting for Oracle to merge the best bits of their own ultra scalable cloud solution (Oracle VM 2.x) with all the best bits from Oracle Virtual Iron, we embarked on a specialisation program, a partner accreditation which involved a number of exams to be passed, along with the fulfillment of certain other business criteria, such as customer references and sales targets to be met. It was an extremely challenging program, and took us an entire year to complete.

As it turned out in the end, Oracle released the finished product, Oracle VM 3.0, on the very same week we finally obtained ’Specialised’ partner status, so that’s extremely fortunate timing, and Oracle couldn’t have planned the release date for OVM 3 better!  We are deep in Oracle VM 3.0 testing right now, and I can tell you - it’s definitely been worth the wait!

If you want to know more about the building of our next generation private cloud hosting system - using Oracle VM 3, you can read more about this in our blog entry ’Building The Cumulonimbus Of Cloud Solutions ’