BRIEFS
Oracle Proposes Placing Hudson Under Eclipse Foundation
Oracle Unveils Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad
Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad is
now available on Apple’s App Store. This app
enables users to securely access virtual desktops managed by Oracle’s Sun Ray Software
and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
The app offers simple, intuitive, and accurate
gesture-based and multitouch operation
with rich virtual keyboard support.
Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad
supports a broad range of enterprise appli-
cations, including
network-intensive
applications and
those requiring full
desktop browsers.
For example,the
app provides a high-
performance mobile computing environ-
ment for users of Oracle’s Siebel Customer
Relationship Management.
“With the introduction of Oracle Virtual
Desktop Client App for iPad, we continue to
offer customers innovative ways to access a
broad range of virtual desktop environments
and enterprise applications,” says Wim
Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux
and virtualization engineering at Oracle.
“When used in conjunction with Oracle’s
Sun Ray Software and Oracle Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure, customers benefit from
enhanced security, centralized administration, lower cost, and better access to their
corporate data from iPad.”
itunes.com/appstore
Oracle Creates Solution for
Enterprise Clouds
Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Optimized
Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure,
an integrated and tested solution for enterprise infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
cloud deployments. The new solution combines Oracle’s Sun Blade servers, Oracle
Solaris or Oracle Linux, Oracle’s Sun ZFS
Storage Appliance (pictured), and Oracle
VM, and can be managed and supported
as a single system using Oracle Enterprise
Manager 11 g.
Oracle Consulting provides assessment,
architecture, and implementation services for the new IaaS solution, and Oracle
Advanced Customer Support Services provides production readiness, installation,
mission-critical support, and preventive
monitoring services. The Oracle Optimized
Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
is endorsed by the Intel Cloud Builders
program, a cross-industry initiative aimed
at making it easier to build, enhance, and
operate cloud infrastructures.
“Oracle is radically simplifying cloud
deployment with a pretested, single-vendor
solution for enterprise cloud infrastructure,”
says Ali Alasti, vice president of hardware
development at Oracle. “By engineering
our hardware and software together, the
Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise
Cloud Infrastructure cuts deployment time
from weeks to hours and helps customers
get virtualized infrastructure up and
running faster.”
