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Oracle Announces Oracle VM Storage Connect Partner Program
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Oracle has been developing a storage discovery and provisioning API in consultation with various storage partners for over a year. This API will be completed with the launch of Oracle VM release 3.0 in 2010. In anticipation of this upcoming release, the Oracle VM Storage Connect Partner Program was announced October 11, 2009, at Oracle Open World and launched with support from key storage partners.
When a storage vendor enables the Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in, their customers will be able to provision that vendor’s storage through the Oracle VM Manager. This will enable simpler management of virtual infrastructure, as well as faster provisioning of solutions in a cloud environment.
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Brocade
"Through the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program, Brocade will continue to drive innovation with Oracle to enable better provisioning and management of storage infrastructures," said Ben Taft, senior director of Strategic Alliances at Brocade. "Brocade is proud to be part of an open development framework dedicated to the creation of best-in-class solutions that combine high-performance networking and virtualization technologies that are crucial to the operations of IT organizations."
Compellent
"Organizations everywhere are embracing virtualization to efficiently and intelligently manage data as their business demands dictate," said Stephen Anderson, director of alliances at Compellent. "Compellent storage virtualization and Oracle VM technology are the ideal platform for creating IT infrastructures ready to handle the dynamic data needs of today's enterprise. Our combined solution also offers innovative migration and replication features that can help ensure business continuity regardless of where the information is stored."
EMC
"EMC is supporting the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program to provide more complete, open, and integrated solutions for our mutual customers who use Oracle VM to virtualize their Oracle environments," said Mike O'Neill, Vice President Technology Alliances, EMC Corporation. "By leveraging these new Oracle APIs EMC can help customers simplify overall virtual infrastructure management, inclusive of improving virtual machine configuration and control."
Emulex
"Emulex is working closely with Oracle to help customers more cost effectively manage storage in virtual and cloud environments." Said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of business development, Emulex Corporation. "Combining the features of Emulex Fibre Channel HBAs, OneConnect Universal Converged Network Adapters and OneCommand management framework with the Oracle VM Storage Connect API will provide customers an industry-leading solution designed to maximize the efficiency of their storage environments."
FalconStor
FalconStor joins Oracle in its commitment to deliver complete, open and integrated solutions to customers by supporting the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program and the Oracle VM Storage Connect framework," said Bernie Wu, vice president of business development for FalconStor Software, an Oracle VM Storage Connect partner. "By supporting the new Oracle API, Oracle and FalconStor customers can leverage the integrated solution to simplify the provisioning and management of virtual machines and storage in Oracle VM environments using Oracle VM Manager, as well as take advantage of all the advanced data protection functions that enable continuous availability of critical enterprise applications. Together, Oracle and FalconStor deliver a virtualization solution that optimizes data centers for better server and storage manageability, data protection and disaster recovery."Data protection in virtual environments is the next great challenge for IT organizations, which are all turning to virtualization to consolidate operations and control costs, and FalconStor solutions provide comprehensive data protection services. FalconStor and Oracle are collaborating to bring application- and platform-aware data protection and replication to Oracle VM environments. FalconStor's storage virtualization and data replication solutions for virtual servers are now available for Oracle VM, bringing a high level of data protection, recoverability and continuous availability to Oracle virtual environments. All of FalconStor's data protection solutions - including FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (VTL), FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS), FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) and FalconStor File-interface Deduplication System (FDS) - integrate seamlessly with Oracle VM and work hand-in-hand with Oracle's backup tools, including Oracle Secure Backup and Oracle Recovery Manager, to optimize the Oracle VM environment for efficiency and high availability.
Fujitsu
"Fujitsu's customers will benefit from the seamless integration of the native storage management functionalities with Oracle's VM environment in a user-friendly and cost effective manner.Oracle and Fujitsu will accelerate their collaboration and deliver to customers reliable and high performance IT infrastructures which leverage Oracle VM Storage Connect framework running on Fujitsu's ETERNUS storage and PRIMERGY PC Server platforms," stated Tadashi Kumasawa, General Manager, Storage Integration Div. Storage Systems Unit Fujitsu Limited.
Hitachi Data Systems
"Hitachi Data Systems and Oracle are committed to delivering on the full promise of server virtualization to customers as demonstrated by the seamless integration of Hitachi Data Systems storage and Oracle VM. This integration not only simplifies Oracle VM deployment but also ensures the Oracle environment is tuned for optimal efficiency, resilience and, importantly, cost savings." - Mike Walkey, Senior Vice President, Global Channels, Hitachi Data Systems
HP
"Customers looking to virtualize their infrastructures can lower costs by using proven solutions that increase storage utilization while achieving peak application performance," said Andrew Manners, director and acting vice president, Marketing, StorageWorks, HP. "Through extensive joint development work, customers can be assured that all components of their HP and Oracle infrastructure solution will work seamlessly together."
LSI
"LSI looks forward to working with Oracle to bring the benefits of Oracle VM Storage Connect to the ecosystem around LSI storage." said Vic Mahadevan, vice president, Marketing and Product Management, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Corporation. "Unified management of complex application environments shifts the focus from IT infrastructure to business application optimization, increasing business agility and directly impacting the bottom line."
Mellanox
"Mellanox end-to-end 40Gb/s interconnect solutions deliver extreme performance and high efficiency at scale in Oracle-based data warehousing and OLTP applications," said John Monson, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "Our collaboration with the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program extends those benefits to the virtualized server and storage world through seamless provisioning for virtual machines."
NetApp
"The Oracle VM Storage Connect framework will give customers the performance and operational efficiencies they need," said Phil Brotherton, vice president and general manager, Virtualization & Enterprise Applications Business Unit, NetApp. "Combined with NetApp's unique storage-efficiency technologies, customers can realize unprecedented cost and space savings and gain flexibility, high availability, and ease of management when virtualizing their Oracle infrastructure."
Pillar Data Systems
"The Pillar Axiom storage platform is ideally suited for the Oracle VM Storage Connect framework because it features unique storage services and design integration with Oracle applications," said Bob Maness, VP of Worldwide Marketing and Channel Sales, Pillar Data Systems. "We are proud that Oracle is both a Pillar customer and partner, and we share a common vision of simplifying virtual infrastructure management and reducing the overall cost of storing and managing data."
QLogic
"In today's virtualized datacenter, customers are looking to reduce cost and complexity in provisioning and managing resources. With the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program, Oracle is enabling end-users to leverage existing resources and simplify management in Oracle VM environments," said Satish Lakshmanan, director of product marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group. "Through continuous collaboration with Oracle, QLogic is delivering comprehensive, integrated, and proven solutions for high performance Fibre Channel, Intelligent Ethernet Adapters, and 2nd Generation Converged Network Adapters on Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM to ensure seamless interoperability and reduced complexity for Oracle users."
Sun
"Through the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program, Sun will deliver simplified storage operations and work flow to Oracle VM users," said Graham Lovell, Senior Director, Open Storage at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Oracle VM and VM Templates leverage Sun's hybrid storage pool technology to deliver faster performance on the Sun Unified Storage 7000 family as compared to traditional storage products. Additionally, the cost and complexity of infrastructure is significantly reduced by choosing NFS with Sun Storage 7000 and its built-in data snapshots, compression and replication services."
Symantec
"Veritas Storage Foundation from Symantec allows IT organizations to apply many of the same operational processes and configurations across their physical and virtual environments, while relying on trusted technology to ensure storage and application availability, system performance, and increased storage utilization," said Josh Kahn, vice president of Product Management, Storage and Availability Management Group, Symantec. "Working together on the Oracle VM Storage Connect Program, Symantec and Oracle will enable customers using Oracle VM Manager to experience the benefits of server virtualization while using Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation to leverage their current storage infrastructure investments."
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