Monday, 29 September 2008

Intel, Oracle Join Forces To Expedite Enterprise Adoption of Cloud Computing

At the Oracle OpenWorld 2008 conference in San Francisco, Oracle and Intel announced that they would partner to speed enterprise adoption of cloud computing by focusing on standards, security and efficiency.

The collaboration involves strengthening virtual machine security in a shared cloud environment. The focus will be on developing an environment in which private data can be accessed only by authorized applications, and activities are tracked for auditing and compliance reporting, the companies said.

"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," Robert Shimp, Oracle's technology business unit group vice president, said in a statement.

For Intel and Oracle, meeting the needs of mutual customers pursuing cloud computing requires the vendors optimize their respective technologies for each other. As an example, the companies reported the collaboration between the two on Oracle VM and the Xen open-source hypervisor with Intel VT yielded a 17 percent performance boost for the Oracle database running virtualized on Intel Xeon processors.