Oracle, Intel team up on cloud-computing tech

Oracle and Intel announced on Wednesday that they are teaming up to accelerate cloud computing for corporate titans.

The technology giants are collaborating on improving the efficiency, security and standards-based technology for pushing programs and data storage into virtual clouds.

"Oracle understands that enterprises would like the flexibility of choosing to run their enterprise systems in either private or public clouds but, in order to do that, cloud computing needs to be highly efficient, secure and standards-based," Robert Shimp, Oracle's technology business unit group vice president, said in a statement.

As part of the cloud collaboration, Oracle and Intel will continue their efforts to improve the performance of Oracle's software on Intel chips.

The companies recently said that their teaming up of Oracle VM and the Xen open-source hypervisor with Intel VT produced a performance improvement of 17 percent in virtualised Oracle databases running on Intel's Xeon processors.

On the security front, both companies said they are aiming to improve the integration of their data-encryption technologies for customers using shared cloud computing.

Oracle and Intel will also work with other industry players in enabling portability of virtual-machine images and creating web-services standards for securing and managing cloud-based services.