Compellent announced support for Oracle VM server virtualization software. Compellent's advanced virtualization creates a powerful storage infrastructure, delivering high performance, reduced cost of ownership, simplified storage management and an ideal platform for Oracle VM.

"Compellent and Oracle are aligned in our approach to helping organizations realize the full benefits of a virtual enterprise, and we work together to certify and provide solutions that are seamlessly interoperable," said Bruce Kornfeld, vice president of marketing, Compellent. "Oracle's expertise on the server side, and our storage credentials, are enabling companies to improve performance and availability of business critical applications while reducing costs and simplifying IT management."

Oracle VM server virtualization software supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications, and offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization. Oracle VM's next generation architecture supports the use of virtualization-aware paravirtualized guest operating systems to allow more efficient, lower overhead operations in areas critical to performance such as memory and I/O management. Oracle VM consists of open source server software and provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools across an enterprise. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM.

"Compellent storage technology and Oracle VM provide an ideal platform for customers seeking to create a virtualized data center," said Monica Kumar, senior director of Linux and Open Source Product Marketing at Oracle. "Like Oracle, Compellent understands that these organizations require integrated solutions that help simplify virtualization, speed deployment and create IT infrastructures ready to handle the growing data demands of today's enterprise."

A member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Compellent is part of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux program, and will extend that support to include Oracle VM. Compellent's innovative software applications, including Thin Provisioning, Remote Replication and Automated Tiered Storage, allow data to be accessible, replicated and expanded in less time than traditional storage solutions.