Oracle and Intel(R) Collaborate to Accelerate Enterprise-Ready Cloud Computing

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Companies to Work on Technology and Standards to Make Clouds More Efficient and Secure

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Oracle and Intel Corporation today announced that they are collaborating to help accelerate enterprise readiness of cloud computing and make it more efficient and secure. The companies will also identify and drive standards to enable flexible deployment across private and public clouds.

Cloud computing is an efficient way to run programs and store data which a large number of users can access through Internet technologies. Enterprise customers are already running applications on shared infrastructure within their firewalls using Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) and Oracle Grid Computing technologies, including Oracle(R) Database, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Automatic Storage Management, Oracle Application Grid, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle VM. With this foundation, enterprises are now looking to create private clouds for their internal applications and to have the ability to extend them to public, multi-tenant clouds with the same level of security, flexibility 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," said 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," said Doug Fisher, vice president, Software and Solutions Group (SSG), and general manager of SSG's Systems Software Division at Intel Corporation.

"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 cooperate in three broad areas:

    --  Efficiency - Recent collaboration between Oracle and Intel on
        Oracle VM and the Xen open source hypervisor with Intel VT has
        yielded a 17 percent performance improvement of Oracle
        Database running virtualized on Intel Xeon(R) processors. As
        Intel introduces new server platforms, and further enhances
        virtualization technology, Oracle and Intel will continue
        their joint software optimization work to achieve performance
        and power efficiency gains.

    --  Security - Enterprises running software in public clouds must
        have assurances that the environment is secure, private data
        can be accessed only by authorized applications, and
        activities are tracked for auditing and compliance reporting.
        Oracle and Intel will work together to further strengthen the
        security of virtual machines in a shared cloud environment to
        help ensure customer data is protected. As Intel develops new
        virtualization security features to ensure trusted
        environments for cloud computing, Intel and Oracle will
        optimize this technology on Oracle software. Both companies
        will continue to better integrate their data encryption
        technologies to help ensure data privacy and security in
        shared public cloud environments.

    --  Standards - Intel and Oracle will work with other industry
        leaders to extend standards that enable portability of virtual
        machine images, such as the Open Virtual Format (OVF), and to
        create Web services standards for provisioning and management
        of cloud-based services.

    About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

About Intel

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.

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Source: Intel Corporation

Released Sep 23, 2008 • 6:15 PM EDT