This week has been particularly interesting thanks to a handful of very notable updates from all across the industry. The first news flash came from Dell’s direction, which launched its first dedupe offering powered by Compellent’s Fluid Data technology.

Dell introduced two new storage offerings this week, including a backup appliance and version 6 of the Compellent Storage Center software. The latter features several improvements, notably better resource optimizes and expanded VMware support.

On the PaaS front, Jaspersoft launched a cloud-based framework designed specifically for the development of BI applications. For now it runs exclusively on Red Hat OpenShift. Customers can either deploy it on-premise or leverage the cloud-powered solution.

Stackato, another PaaS that caters to a more general audience and focuses mainly on providing enterprise customers with a great deal of customizations thanks to, among other things, a very strong vendor-agnostic element. As a part of that effort operator ActiveState has been expanding the solution’s support roster to enable apps written in various languages to run on either one of the platform  Stackato can be deployed on. The latest edition is the still in testing HP Cloud Services, Cloud Services will play a big role in Hewlett-Packard’s overall cloud strategy, and evidently ActiveState believes it has potential as well.

In the consumer space, Google TV had an update. The search giant and game delivery service OnLive announced that the service will now be preinstalled on the platform; a win-win for both companies. OnLive’s cloud-based product runs games on the company’s servers and streams them to the user’s end-device, thus introducing Google TV users a very unique experience in terms of quality.

Microsoft, on the other end, is having second thoughts about streaming video content to the Xbox, due mainly to the expense that would be involved.