Oracle sponsors OpenStack Foundation

Oracle has become a Corporate Sponsor of the OpenStack® Foundation.

Oracle is planning to integrate OpenStack cloud management components into Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM,Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, Oracle Infrastructure as a Service, Oracle’s ZS3 Series, Axiom storage systems and StorageTek tape systems.

In addition, Oracle will also be working to achieve OpenStack compatibility with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Compute Cloud Service and Oracle Storage Cloud Service.

This integration is intended to enable customers to use OpenStack to manage Oracle technology-based clouds, taking full advantage of the stability, efficiency, performance, scalability and security of these Oracle products.

Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux provide industry-leading security, performance, scalability and observability for cloud-based deployments, allowing customers to run their most demanding enterprise applications in private or public clouds. Integration with OpenStack will allow customers to integrate Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VMenvironments with other OpenStack platforms.

Oracle is planning to provide Oracle Compute Cloud Service compatibility with OpenStack Nova and offering highly available, secure and flexible virtual machine instances to which Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder assemblies andOracle VM Templates may be deployed. See related press release: Oracle Expands Oracle Cloud with New Database as a Service, Java as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service.

In addition, Oracle is planning to provide OpenStack Object Storage (project name Swift) compatibility for Oracle Storage Cloud Service, which offers a highly-available, redundant and secure object store for managing large-scale unstructured data.

Oracle also plans to integrate OpenStack Object Storage into its storage portfolio, providing customers with access via OpenStack APIs to Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance and Pillar Axiom storage systems for object storage and StorageTek tape solutions for deep archiving and data protection.

At Oracle OpenWorld 2013, Oracle announced the roadmap for integrating Nimbula Director with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. OpenStack compatible APIs will allow customers to seamlessly move workloads from Oracle Exalogic to the Oracle Public Cloud and back. See related press release: Oracle Announces Roadmap for Nimbula Director and OpenStack API Integration with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud.

Since the release of Oracle Solaris 11, over 4,000 customers have gone into production and many of them are deploying applications in Oracle Solaris-based clouds. With the integration of OpenStack components in Oracle Solaris, customers will be able to expand their usage of Oracle Solaris in new cloud deployments.