A diagram illustrates Flexiant’s Extility cloud platform network (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – UK cloud solutions provider Flexiant ( www.flexiant.com ) announced on Monday that it has upgraded its cloud platform Extility and has launched IPv6 support. According to the press release, this announcement marks Flexiant “as the first cloud software provider in Europe to announce full commercial support for IPv6.” This announcement comes two weeks after Denmark web host Netgroup deployed Flexiant’s Extility cloud virtualization platform.  Flexiant says Extility 1.3 enables data center operators and the end-user to manipulate virtual resources and ensure they are always deployed where needed. “We completely understand that data centers are restricted by their existing investment in software, hardware and other IT infrastructure,” Tony Lucas, founder of Flexiant said in a statement.

A screen shot of CWCS’ front page, which prominently displays its new cloud hosting services (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- UK managed hosting provider CWCS Managed Hosting ( www.cwcs.co.uk ) announced on Thursday it has launched its cloud hosting services which include public, private and hybrid cloud hosting ( www.cwcs.co.uk/cloud-hosting ). In preparation for its entry into the cloud services market, CWCS Managed Hosting has invested about $163,000 in its cloud infrastructure and says it will continue to invest in the future. Hosted on VMware vSphere HA with Intel Xeon Quad Core processors, CWCS Cloud is available on both Windows and Linux platforms.

Hosting Toolbox – Singapore – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and VMware today announced the launch of SingTel PowerON Compute enabled by VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services.

A screen shot of eApps Hosting’ Create-A-Cloud control panel (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Web hosting provider eApps Hosting ( www.eapps.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched the Virtual Machine in the Cloud service.

A screen shot of the OpenStack control panel demo (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Dell ( www.Dell.com/OpenStack ), Equinix ( www.Equinix.com/OpenStack ) and Rackspace Hosting ( www.rackspace.com/cloudbuilders ) announced on Thursday that they have partnered to develop an OpenStack cloud demonstration and test environment. The demo environment will be available in three data centers, located at the Equinix International Business Exchange in Silicon Valley, and Ashburn, Virginia, and the Rackspace data center in Chicago. The companies also plan to collaborate on additional demo environments in Equinix data centers in Europe and Asia in the second quarter of 2011.

MESH sales director Holger Bellinghausen de Coster (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- In his rather brief presentation (just under 15 minutes), “Freedom of choice”, MESH ( www.mesh.eu ) sales director Holger Bellinghausen de Coster discussed the flexibility and security requirements of cloud services. As a diamond sponsor of WorldHostingDays 2011, MESH is a cloud infrastructure enabler, says Bellinghausen. After providing a short introduction about MESH and its products, Bellinghausen invited a representative from InfraQ, who discussed the company’s recent partnership with MESH.

MESH sales director Holger Bellinghausen de Coster (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- In his rather brief presentation (just under 15 minutes), “Freedom of choice”, MESH ( www.mesh.eu ) sales director Holger Bellinghausen de Coster discussed the flexibility and security requirements of cloud services. As a diamond sponsor of WorldHostingDays 2011, MESH is a cloud infrastructure enabler, says Bellinghausen