Oracle is looking into expanding its virtualization of managed hosting offerings through a number of applications that it obtained when it acquired Sun Microsystems. This is according to the company’s chief architect Edward Screven.
Screven was one of the many speakers in a recent webcast. He explained how the technology development and customer support of Sun will be incorporated into the current Oracle operations. He said that they expect to provide the most comprehensive set of solutions for virtualization. Screven adds that Oracle is going to deliver integrated management of the whole stack so that when problem strikes, they will be able to provide resolutions efficiently.
The new unified offering also has the potential to allow for easier virtualization administration for shops that are running or that are looking to run the Solaris operating system of the Spac processor-based servers that Oracle has just recently acquired.
The said plans also manifest the intent of Oracle to continue development support for Sun’s Solaris as well as for its Sparc multithreaded processors.
Before it acquired the new virtualization tools, Oracle has already taken over a few platforms of the same kind. One of them is Oracle VM, a reworked version of the open-source Xen for x86 servers. It also features the Oracle Enterprise Manager suite that provides virtualization management.
When it acquired Sun Microsystems, Oracle managed to gain a couple of virtualization technologies which Sun has designed for its own hardware and software.