Oracle has introduced the Oracle VM Storage Connect Programme and a preview of the planned Oracle VM Storage Connect framework.
The announcement was made at Oracle OpenWorld, in San Francisco, this week.
Wim Coekaerts, VP, Linux and virtualisation engineering at Oracle, explains. “Oracle VM momentum continues as customers are virtualising business-critical database and application workloads.
“Through the Oracle VM Storage Connect Programme, our customers will further benefit from simpler management and accelerated provisioning, enabling lower cost and greater agility.”
This will help the company's partners to easily extend the work they have done, in areas like advanced storage features, to new opportunities. This programme is a win-win for everyone, he notes.
Benjamin Woo, VP of storage research at IDC, says users are always looking for the best way to leverage existing resources and to simplify management. “The Oracle VM Storage Connect framework can allow end-users to take advantage of the storage systems they have in place, in virtual and cloud environments, thereby helping to reduce the total cost of operations.”
The Oracle VM Storage Connect framework provides a storage discovery and provisioning application programming interface that is meant to substantially enhance the ease with which storage can be managed and provisioned in an Oracle VM environment.
Storage vendors in the programme are working closely with Oracle to provide seamless interoperability with their storage platforms through the planned integration with this framework, says the company.
The combined solutions aim to allow customers to provision and manage participating storage platforms through Oracle VM Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager, simplifying virtual infrastructure management, and delivering faster virtual machine configuration and control.
Coekaerts says public and private cloud infrastructures using virtualised compute and storage services will also gain from quicker provisioning and simpler, integrated management.
Vendors that support and have already joined the Oracle VM Storage Connect Programme include AMD, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, NetApp, Sun Microsystems and Symantec.
The move confirms its commitment to working closely with partners to deliver complete, open and integrated solutions to customers, states Oracle.
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