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Oracle to buy Xsigo for data centre fabric
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ITWORLD CANADA CURATED: A week after VMware bought a software-defined networking startup, Oracle gets into the market as well. Here's two takes on the latest deal
The stampede to buy
SDN
startups is accelerating, with Oracle Corp. the latest to make a move by striking a deal for Xsigo Systems. The company said Xsigo's tools will be combined with Oracle VM server's virtualization technology.
Last week VMware said it will pay $1.26 billion for Nicira
.
This article from Computerworld U.S.
outlines the early announcement and Oracle's strategy. But also take a look at
this piece from Forbes
, which notes that SDN is part of a long trend to reduce the data centre stack to software
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