Oracle today announced that it has entered into an
agreement to acquire Xsigo Systems, a leading provider of network virtualization
technology.
Xsigo’s software-defined networking technology simplifies
cloud infrastructure and operations by allowing customers to dynamically and
flexibly connect any server to any network and storage, resulting in increased
asset utilization and application performance while reducing cost.
The company’s products have been deployed at hundreds of
enterprise customers including British Telecom, eBay, Softbank and
Verizon.
The combination of Xsigo for network virtualization and
Oracle VM for server virtualization is expected to deliver a complete set of
virtualization capabilities for cloud environments.
"The proliferation of virtualized servers in the last few
years has made the virtualization of the supporting network connections
essential," said John Fowler, Oracle Executive Vice President of Systems. "With
Xsigo, customers can reduce the complexity and simplify management of their
clouds by delivering compute, storage and network resources that can be
dynamically reallocated on-demand."
"Customers are focused on reducing costs and improving
utilization of their network," said Lloyd Carney, Xsigo CEO. "Virtualization of
these resources allows customers to scale compute and storage for their public
and private clouds while matching network capacity as demand dictates."
Terms of the
agreement were not disclosed. More information on this announcement can be found
at
oracle.com/xsigo.