Oracle, partners boost grid computing

Oracle Corp., the world’s largest enterprise software company, said it is working closely with its leading partners like Computer Associates, Digex, F5, HP, Micro-muse, Sun Microsystems and TUSC to develop integration points that will reduce the management complexities of enterprise grid computing and other multi-vendor technology environments.

Oracle is working with these partners to develop integration points to Oracle Enterprise Ma-nager 10g Grid Control (Grid Control), the management software used to manage Oracle’s new grid computing infrastructure software.

Industry standardization of grid computing will create a simplified, efficient and cost-effective way to manage hundreds of servers from a centralized point.

Oracle Grid Control will significantly improve the automation of managing Oracle technology and the end-to-end application infrastructure.

"Open and standard application protocol interfaces will enable partners to easily integrate with the automated management capa-bilities of Oracle grid computing infrastructure to ensure in-depth monitoring and administration of the enterprise system as a whole," said Jay Rossiter, Oracle’s vice president for system management product development.