Oracle buys Virtual Iron for virtualised management
Oracle's decision to acquire virtualisation management specialist Virtual Iron Software takes another competitor out and provides a useful addition to Oracle VM's server virtualisation stack.
Virtual Iron's software enables dynamic resource and capacity management in virtualised data centres.
Wim Coekaerts, Oracle vice president of Linux and virtualisation engineering, says that customers will benefit from better capacity utilisation, streamlined virtual server configuration, and improved visibility and control of their enterprise software.
"Industry trends are driving demand for virtualisation as a way to reduce operating expenses and support green IT strategies without sacrificing quality of service," he says.
"This acquisition is consistent with Oracle's strategy to provide comprehensive enterprise software management and will facilitate more efficient management of application service levels."
