Welcome!

Virtualization Authors: Maureen O'Gara, Yeshim Deniz, Reuven Cohen, Carmen Gonzalez, Robert Eve

Related Topics: Virtualization, SOA & WOA

Virtualization: News Item

Oracle Buys Virtual Iron

Adds Advanced Virtualization Management Technology to Enhance Oracle VM

By Pat Romanski
Article Rating:
May 14, 2009 01:45 PM EDT
Reads:
 2,326

Oracle has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software that enables dynamic resource and capacity management in virtualized data centers.

  • The combination of Virtual Iron's technology and Oracle VM's scalable, high performance and highly available server virtualization product is expected to provide more comprehensive and dynamic resource management across the full software stack.
  • Customers are expected to benefit from better capacity utilization, streamlined virtual server configuration, and improved visibility and control of their enterprise software.
  • The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close this summer.
  • Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently.
  • Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Supporting Quote

  • "Industry trends are driving demand for virtualization as a way to reduce operating expenses and support green IT strategies without sacrificing quality of service," said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering. "With the addition of Virtual Iron, Oracle expects to enable customers to more dynamically manage their server capacity and optimize their power consumption. The acquisition is consistent with Oracle's strategy to provide comprehensive enterprise software management and will facilitate more efficient management of application service levels."

Supporting Resources

Published May 14, 2009 – Reads 2,326
Copyright © 2009 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.

More Stories By Pat Romanski

Pat is Associate Online Editor at Ulitzer.com, the leading online news, information, and original content site with more than 1 million original technology articles, written by over 6,000 well-respected, expert authors. Nicole covers news on technologies including Cloud Computing, Virtualization, AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, SOA, and WOA. You can forward your press releases via email at her home page patromanski.ulitzer.com.