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Oracle Fine-Tunes Its Cloud Computing Strategy

The software giant unveils a new private cloud in a box
By Dilip Tinnelvelly
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September 22, 2010 10:22 AM EDT
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Reinforcing its intention to compete with the likes of IBM, HP and Cisco in the increasingly crowded integrated hardware and software cloud space, Oracle has come out with its own version of the same called Exalogic Elastic Cloud. It has been designed to run Java and non-Java applications in virtualized computing environments behind a company's firewall. Modeled after its Exadata Database Machine, another hardware-software combo from Oracle that is geared for database storage performance, this latest cloud stack is intended as a middleware machine combining Intel multi-core processors, an InfiniBand-based I/O fabric and solid-state storage with the Oracle WebLogic middleware server and other enterprise Java Oracle middleware products, and provides a choice of Oracle Solaris or Oracle Linux.

Oracle has also announced that a good chunk of Oracle enterprise software like E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel CRM, Fusion Middleware, its flagship database and Linux distribution can be deployed on Amazon EC2 using Oracle VM virtualization.

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Dilip Tinnelvelly is VP of Product Management & Technology at ChannelVission Inc., a Cloud computing firm specializing in channels for global business development using SaaS/PaaS platforms. He is responsible for Technology Infrastructure, Business Operations and Product Marketing. Dilip has a special interest in Cloud Computing, Mobile Technology and energy efficient products and practices. He has over a decade of experience working in High Tech Fortune 500 companies as well as emerging startups, directing global technology programs. Before joining ChannelVission, Dilip has served as a Senior Director in Product Management and Strategic Business Development functions at ON Semiconductor, LSI Logic & TransEDA. He has worked as a technology consultant for Venture capital companies, Market Research firms, Institutional investors and Government agencies. He holds an Executive MBA from UC Irvine, California and a Masters in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, New York.