There have been many questions raised recently about which of Sun's products will have a life after Oracle. Some of these questions are answered in the post "The Oracle VM Product Line Welcomes Sun!" by Adam Hawley, who writes, "We are tremendously excited to combine our portfolios and work side-by-side with our extremely talented Sun brethren to advance the state-of-the art in virtualization."

Hawley clarifies Oracle's view of virtualization, asserting that, "Oracle virtualization is not about virtualization for virtualization's sake: it's about creating virtualization products and technologies that make applications." That emphasis, he assures his readers, will continue.

So, then, which are the virtualization products under the new umbrella that will remain central to Oracle's focus on virtualization. Hawley provides a list:

• Oracle VM Server for SPARC (Logical Domains): Hypervisor-based virtualization for SPARC servers

• Oracle VM for Server x86/x64: Hypervisor-based virtualization for x86/x64 servers

- Oracle VM VirtualBox: Hosted workstation and server virtualization for x86/x64

• Oracle Secure Global Desktop: Presentation / desktop services for server resident applications

• Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: VDI for Windows, Linux, and Solaris desktops

• Solaris Containers and Zones: Highly scalable Solaris virtualization
• Sun Dynamic Domains: The ultimate in OS instance isolation
• Sun Ray software and hardware: Thin client computing but oh so much more

Hawley also has some information about Sun xVM Server, which is that Oracle will bet on its own horse in that particular race, given that, as Hawley puts it, "Sun's xVM server was never fully released and productized by Sun while Oracle VM, Oracle's own x86 server virtualization with a Xen-based architecture has been shipping and running in production for just over 2 1/2 years and thus Oracle VM for x86/x64 will continue to be Oracle's target of strategic investment in the Xen-architecture space."

Last, but very definitely not least, management: Management is, in fact, a huge part of our focus with Oracle VM Manager, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Ops Center so rest assured on that front as well that these products and investments will flourish.

Hawley's last word for readers is a recommendation that they watch the strategy webcast with Oracle's Chief Architect Edward Screven talking about our virtualization direction. He also invites readers to take a look at the Management strategy. [...read more...]

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