Virtual infrastructure and applications: Oracle announced Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance: stakes and opportunity.

If in this domain, there are increasingly several offers and many actors,  the real challenges remain the security and the efficiency. Yesterday Oracle has introduced Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, its converged infrastructure platform for a mix of applications and operating systems.

Connectikpeople has observed that, Oracle aims to enable rapid,
repeatable software-defined infrastructure deployment for virtually any x86 application and workload.

This converged solution can:

·        Run Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, other Linux distributions and Microsoft Windows side by side.

·        Includes Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder (this means users can rapidly deploy entire application stacks including Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, database, middleware and business applications).

·        Provides simplified appliance management

·        Fully integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager for cloud and full stack management.

Finally , Connectikpeople has observed that, the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance brings servers based on Intel® Xeon® processors, Oracle VM, Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Virtual Networking fabric interconnects, and Oracle SDN software.