December 8, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Sun Microsystems (sun.com) and Oracle (oracle.com) said on Tuesday that they plan to continue collaborating on the development of integrated grid computing solutions designed to help enterprises ease data center gridlock and maximize the use of existing IT assets. The companies said they are committed to developing next-generation data center solutions on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, backed by the Sun Solaris operating system.
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“Many of today’s data centers can be described as cost-ineffective, due to low utilization of resources,” says Bjorn Andersson, director of grid marketing at Sun Microsystems. “Together with Oracle, we continue to provide customers proven building blocks for Grid based on Sun Fire systems, the Solaris OS, Sun StorEdge, software and services, which can easily be configured to transform poor-performing data centers into a competitive weapon.”
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In order to lower the entry barriers to grid computing, Sun and Oracle created the Grid Reference Architecture for Oracle 10g software, providing customers with a set of proven guidelines for implementing a Grid computing solution. The Grid Reference Architecture, developed jointly by Sun and Oracle, is capable of reducing implementation time and total cost-of-ownership, the companies said.
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“We are committed to providing customers with choice and flexibility when it comes to Grid computing,” says Prem Kumar, vice president of server technologies at Oracle. “Our work with Sun around Oracle Database 10g continues to focus on delivering solutions that maximize asset utilization and decrease overall IT costs – a value proposition that resonates with organizations of all sizes, in all industries.”
