Oracle and Novell to Offer Grid-Ready Solution

Novell and Oracle today announced availability of a new Accelerator service designed to help customers streamline the deployment of a grid-ready infrastructure for the data center, featuring Oracle(r) Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Application Server 10g, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g for customers running on SUSE(r) Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. The solution takes advantage of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control) and the Automated Storage Management feature of Oracle Database 10g to provide a complete, customer-ready management solution for monitoring and managing grid applications and infrastructure software and storage.

This new Accelerator is a service engagement wherein skilled personnel from Oracle will work with Novell, HP and Egenera to expedite implementation and deployment of Oracle's Grid Computing infrastructure software onto SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Already field-proven with existing joint customers, this accelerator helps minimize risk while speeding time-to-market for enterprise grid-based applications. The new Accelerator is offered with flexible optional pricing designed to fit into customer budget and deployment requirements.