OSI Hosting, a well-respected colocation, dedicated server and Web hosting provider, online located at: www.osihosting.com, is on the threshold of expanding its open source hosting position by acquiring facilities in seven locations throughout the United States. Through this considerable new expansion, the company's server space will encompass nearly 1 million square feet.
In its expansion initiative, OSI Hosting has struck strategic agreements to acquire colocation sites in various locations in the USA. Under the deals, the company's network of facilities will incorporate: two Austin locations with colocation space of 93,000 and 124,000 square feet; Miami and Colorado locations offering 140,000 and 90,000 square feet of space; three Seattle, Washington locations of which two offer colocation space - 400,000 and 100,000 square feet respectively - and the third one houses the company's corporate equipment financing and leasing office. OSI Hosting's dedicated server and headquarters are based in Dallas, Texas.
In its campaign to expand its colocation space capacity, OSI Hosting reports that its dedicated servers will exclusively run open source software. For this purpose, the company has inked a deal with IBM (www.ibm.com), in order to acquire a total of 25,000 rack-mount servers from the software giant in near future. Other partners of OSI Hosting in its campaign of open source hosting expansion are Novell (www.novell.com), who has provided the newest version of its SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server platform, and Apple (www.apple.com), who will deploy 1,000 Xservers powered by its FreeBSD-based Mac OS X enterprise server software.
