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Oracle's Virtual Iron Buyout Will Provide Essential VM Tool Set
By: Chris Preimesberger
2009-05-13
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Oracle's Virtual Iron Buyout Will Provide Essential VM Tool Set (
Page 1 of 2 ) Oracle has a number of reasons to want to own a mature virtualization tool set, and acquiring Virtual Iron contributes to that goal. To become the full-service IT infrastructure company it envisions, Oracle needs more control of virtualized software and hardware for all its deployments. Oracle doesn't want to keep paying a so-called virtualization tax to third-party providers such as VMware.Oracle, a company with its own permanent mergers and acquisitions office, is
adding an important ingredient to its product catalog in a quest to become the
newest all-purpose IT systems company: a new-generation tool box that will
administer both Windows and Linux virtualization deployments.
When it closes a
deal to acquire Virtual Iron announced May 13, Oracle will join EMC
(owner of VMware), Microsoft (Hyper-V), Citrix Systems (XenServer) and Sun
Microsystems (Sun Containers, xVM Ops Center and VirtualBox software) as one of
the only IT systems providers that own server virtualization products.
After the summer of 2009, that number of companies will shrink by one, because
Sun also will have become property of Oracle in the widely reported $7.4
billion acquisition deal announced April 20.
VMware products are installed on about 85 percent of all enterprise IT systems, with the
others all claiming much smaller pieces of the virtualization pie.
Oracle has a number of reasons to want to own a mature virtualization tool set.
First, to become the full-service IT infrastructure company it envisions, it
needs more control of virtualized software and hardware for all its deployments.
Oracle doesn't want to keep paying a "virtualization tax" to
third-party providers like VMware or any other company.
Secondly, Oracle needs a more complete set of tools for its home-developed
Xen-based hypervisor, Oracle VM. It's not an accident that Virtual Iron's
platform also is Xen-based, built on open-source code. Oracle's virtual machine
controls currently do not have management features as good as Virtual Iron's
LivePower, which offers much greater control of server power consumption. So
the acquisition also is a green IT move for Oracle.
Oracle intends to bundle Virtual Iron's tools with its own VM layer to give
users a full-stack management console for both virtual and physical systems.
Virtual Iron also features better capacity utilization and virtual server
configuration tools than Oracle offers today.
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