Oracle Launches 'Private Cloud' Box

aesoteric writes "Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has used the keynote of Oracle OpenWorld to launch the 'Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud' — an appliance combining server and storage hardware with a pre-tuned web server, hypervisor and other middleware. Introducing the product as 'a honking big cloud in a box,' Ellison shifted from his previous criticism of the terms 'cloud computing' and 'private cloud' by using the exact same terms to sell a physical appliance." Oracle also took the wraps off Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux, which is based on the 2.6.32 Linux kernel.

Cloud in a box?

[mindwhip]

Isn't that a tank of water?

Re:Huh?

[nicolas.kassis]

No no no, this is even better, it's a box to which you can add more processors to whenever you want. The only thing that will hold you back is the 90K per core software license to go with it.

Larry says

[Anonymous Coward]

"Introducing Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel! It's Unbreakable! ...[cough]... on 32-bit systems."

Re:Cloud in a box?

[himself]

The "Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud" sounds more like something from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" to me. Is that how he defeats the Vermicious Knids in the second book?

Re:Huh?

[teknopurge]

Mainframe 2.0. See what I did there? Scared?

Re:"private cloud" box is kind of an oxymoron

[blair1q]

Sure, but sometimes you need privacy and control and ownership.

Of course, if this is the same Oracle it's always been, you won't get those things, but you will get a hefty bill.

It's my cloud in a box

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey girl, I got something real important to give you

So just sit down, and listen...

Re:Private Cloud?

[bennomatic]

[127.0.0.1]

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