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Oracle: Flying Into the Cloud
To date Oracle has had a very has had pretty limited activity in the area of on-Demand. But that’s not to say that Oracle hasn’t seen value in SaaS and “Cloud Computing”. They see value in supplying SaaS vendors with their infrastructure technology.
Oracle had a number of announcements made at Oracle World this week around cloud computing. Oracle said that they are partnering with Intel to create technology for cloud computing, primarily around the security and efficiency of pushing programs and data storage into the cloud. The companies worked on a joint project to improve the efficiency of the Oracle VM by combining the open-source Xen hypervisor with the Intel VT — with that configuration, Oracle database performance improves by 17 percent in virtualized Oracle databases running on Intel’s Xeon processors. Oracle and Intel plan further cooperation in tuning Oracle software to run on Intel hardware.
On another front, Oracle announced that it will now license some of its software to run on Amazon.com’s EC2 cloud computing environment. The Oracle 11g database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Linux will all be supported. And interestingly, they will also support Amazon’s S3 storage environment as a place for backing up that data.
