Oracle and Intel Collaborate For Enterprise-Ready Cloud Computing

Oracle (News - Alert) and Intel Corporation announced their collaboration to help enterprise readiness of cloud computing, making it more efficient and secure. The companies will also identify and drive standards to allow deployment across private and public clouds.

 

Cloud computing allows to run programs and store data for use and access by a large number of users through Internet. Enterprise customers are running applications on shared infrastructure within their firewalls with Intel (News - Alert) Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) and Oracle Grid Computing technologies, like Oracle Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, Oracle Application Grid, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle VM. Enterprises are now trying private clouds for internal applications which will allow extending them to public, multi-tenant clouds with equal security and efficiency.

 

“Oracle understands that enterprises would like the flexibility of choosing to run their enterprise systems in either private or public clouds, but in order to do that, cloud computing needs to be highly efficient, secure and standards based,” explains Robert Shimp, group vice president, Oracle Global Technology Business Unit. “Intel and Oracle are collaborating to make this happen.”

 

“Intel and Oracle are taking a leadership role to expand the reach of enterprise-ready cloud computing,” stated Doug Fisher, vice president, Software and Solutions Group (SSG), and general manager of SSG's Systems Software Division at Intel Corporation. He added, “By collaborating to improve efficiency, extend standards and enhance security, we’re making cloud computing more of an option for enterprise deployments.”

Oracle and Intel will work in cooperation for, Efficiency –Oracle VM and the Xen open source hypervisor with Intel VT has improved the performance by 17 percent performance of Oracle Database running virtualized on Intel Xeon processors.

 

Another area is Security, where they help enterprises for secure, private data access by authorized applications and also activities are tracked for auditing and compliance reporting.

 

Oracle and Intel are also working for Standards for portability of virtual machine images, like Open Virtual Format (OVF), and to create Web services standards.