Taking on entrenched players in the virtualization realm, including VMware, Oracle has unveiled a new server virtualization software product that it claims is much more efficient than its competitors’ ...

Microsoft and Oracle have released previews of virtual machine (VM) images that enable Oracle workloads to run on Windows Azure. To run the images, users need to have a Windows Azure account and they ...

A VMWare official on Friday scoffed at Oracle’s contention that its recent entry into the virtualization market performs better than “the existing leader server virtualization product.” Oracle has not ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp and VMware Inc on Monday announced a deal designed to resolve years of tension over how Oracle handles technical support for VMware users and make it easier for ...

VMware Vice President of Global Alliances Parag Patel said his firm has a number of customers that want to virtualize their Oracle environments on VMware, but that Oracle is standing in the way.

Oracle today signaled its intent to compete across the board with VMware in virtualization technologies in the enterprise. Following its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, it was unclear how aggressive ...

Oracle launched another salvo in the virtual machine battle (see The battle over virtual machine software for a deeper analysis of the battle) by offering Oracle VM 3.3. As mentioned in that article, ...

Oracle is the latest player to toss its hat into the virtualization ring with the company's latest announcement of Oracle VM, a virtualization platform based on the open source Xen hypervisor. At ...

Oracle on Wednesday announced what it calls the "Datacenter of the Future." And by that it means a bunch of new hardware and software that takes on giants EMC, Cisco, and VMware. Specifically, Oracle ...

SAN FRANCISCO — VMware Inc.s stranglehold on the virtual server business will likely limit Oracle Corp.s new virtual machine technology to its current customer base. That was the conclusion of some ...

The rumors are true. Oracle has finally announced that its intent to acquire Virtual Iron for its virtual server management capabilities. It's a nice fit for Oracle, which has its own Xen-based ...

Oracle insists its first partnership with the private cloud leader is not a me-too play. Instead, both companies wanted to differentiate the service to give large enterprises more choice in adopting ...