Oracle gets aggressive in virtualization with Virtual Iron purchase!
By Tarry Singh at 13 May, 2009, 10:39 am
Update 1:
10th March 2009 we told you that Oracle had snapped Virtual Iron. So truly believe what I am saying, seeing and hearing 
We did cover this sometime back stating that Oracle had bought Virtual Iron. This El Reg article confirms that news, no matter how belated it may come out.
Oracle put out a statement about the Virtual Iron deal, saying that until the transaction closes Virtual Iron will operate separately; it did not say how much it paid to acquire Virtual Iron, either. In a presentation on its website, Oracle said that it is reviewing Virtual Iron’s product roadmap, and will eventually give Virtual Iron’s customers guidance on product roadmaps and any changes in features or timing in the wake of the deal.
Oracle also wanted to be very clear that the product roadmap information provided by Virtual Iron in the past or Oracle in the future “does not represent a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decision.” It expects the deal to close this summer, and at that time it will talk about how the Virtual Iron tools will be woven into its Oracle Enterprise Manager tools. In the meantime, Virtual Iron’s tools are still being sold and supported.
The main bits of the Virtual Iron tool stack that Oracle was interested in are CPU and storage capacity management and power management, all features that Citrix and VMware have focused on in their latest hypervisor stacks (Essentials for XenServer 5.5 and vSphere 4.0, respectively, and neither shipping yet.)
Virtual Iron had also created a set of scriptable APIs that allowed system administrators to link the management of their Xen VMs into their other system management frameworks so physical and virtual machines can be orchestrated from a higher level and with the same tools.
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