The rumor had been floating around for a while, but after Oracle acquired SUN no one really expected them to still buy Virtual Iron. But they just did…
- Oracle has agreed to acquire Virtual Iron Software, Inc. (Virtual Iron), a provider of server virtualization management software that enables dynamic resource and capacity management in virtualized data centers.
- The combination of Virtual Iron’s technology and Oracle VM’s scalable, high performance and highly available server virtualization product is expected to provide more comprehensive and dynamic resource management across the full software stack.
- Customers are expected to benefit from better capacity utilization, streamlined virtual server configuration, and improved visibility and control of their enterprise software.
- The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close this summer.
- Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently.
- Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
They seem to amaze me every single time. I’m just wondering what will happen with the SUN virtualization solutions… Will they try to integrate it all in to one single solution? Oracle seems to be heading for the Clouds with the Virtual Iron PXE Boot Hypervisor.
Limey says
I am dreading how this could turn out.
We have been using VirtualIron for six months and it looks from what little Oracle is saying that once they get what they need from the acquisition that VI will be no more.
I will not pay Oracle to be able to manage the virtual infrastructure I just avoided paying VMWare to manage. I’m doing it all right now for a fraction of VMWare’s cost, I don’t see Oracle being any cheaper than VMWare.
If I hadn’t bought VI I would definitely hold off, and I’m going to start evaluating other products as well. So much for the long-term plan.
Thanks to Martin for pointing me to Yellow Bricks.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/37850?page=1#entry-145954
Jason Boche says
I won’t use Virtual Iron until it has 750,000 downloads. Then I’ll switch.
vRob says
Jason +1 lol…