Oracle belittles VMware's virtualisation stack

REDWOOD SHORES, USA: Oracle, who acquired Sun Microsystem, took a dig at VMware stating that Oracle virtualization delivers more value than VMware.

Oracle chief corporate architects Edward Screven, and  executive vice president, systems, John Fowler while outlining the company's virtualization strategy said that its application aware virtualization goes beyond VMware's hypervisor-only approach by providing virtualization technologies, the applications that run within, and integrated management -- addressing the entire stack from applications to disk.

Oracle added that its integrated virtualization solutions portfolio, enables customers to go beyond simple server consolidation to virtualize and manage full hardware and software stack, from desktop-to-data centre.

Oracle offers a range of server virtualization options, including Oracle VM Server for x86, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, Oracle Solaris Containers and Dynamic Domains.

Oracle had recently announced four new desktop virtualization offerings: Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2, Oracle Sun Ray Software 5, Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 and Sun Ray 3 Plus Client.

In addition, Oracle had also released Oracle WebLogic Suite, Virtualization Option and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, both running on Oracle VM.