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Oracle Launches 'Private Cloud' Box

Posted by Soulskill on from the buzzwords-get-worse dept.

aesoteric writes "Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has used the keynote of Oracle OpenWorld to launch the 'Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud' — an appliance combining server and storage hardware with a pre-tuned web server, hypervisor and other middleware. Introducing the product as 'a honking big cloud in a box,' Ellison shifted from his previous criticism of the terms 'cloud computing' and 'private cloud' by using the exact same terms to sell a physical appliance." Oracle also took the wraps off Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux, which is based on the 2.6.32 Linux kernel.

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  1. Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux? by e065c8515d206cb0e190 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Linux on their Sun hardware? I though Oracle was supposed to be optimized for Solaris?

  2. Re:Huh? by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    THIS. Want a private "cloud"? http://forum.eucalyptus.com/

    Free. API-compliant with EC2 (and somewhat with S3). Deployable on your own hardware.