Oracle announces new Oracle Linux VM template for MySQL

Oracle announces new Oracle VM template for MySQL Enterprise Edition
  • The new Oracle VM Template for MySQL helps eliminate manual configuration efforts and risks by providing a pre-installed, pre-configured and certified software stack that includes Oracle VM Server for x86, Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and MySQL Enterprise Edition.
  • By pre-integrating the world’s most popular open source database with Oracle Linux and Oracle Virtualization technologies, enterprise users and ISVs can quickly and easily deploy and manage a virtualized MySQL database server for Web and cloud-based applications.

Oracle VM VirtualBox is now “fully open source”

Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0.8 has just been released with the following improvements:

  • it is now fully open source ! – “there is now an OSS licensed binary meaning partners do not need to build and maintain their own source tress. This lowers a barrier and is expected to spark increased interest in VirtualBox virtualization solutions.”
  • it has an orderable VM list
  • it has “a new, modern virtual chipset supporting PCI Express and other hardware enhancements including high definition audio devices helps ensure support for the most demanding virtual workloads.”

See also

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud is the world’s first integrated cloud machine—hardware and software engineered together to provide a “cloud in a box”. Exalogic is designed to revolutionize data center consolidation, enabling enterprises to bring together tens, hundreds, or even thousands of disparate, mission-critical, performance-sensitive workloads with maximum reliability, availability, and security.