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Oracle joins OpenStack Murano directory push

It's all about multitenant and the cloud

Oracle’s thrown its not inconsiderable mass and influence behind a project building a catalogue to list cloud-ready OpenStack apps.

The database giant is today expected to pledge its support for Murano, the OpenStack project letting you publish cloud-ready apps in a browsable directory.

Murano is an open-source project started by relatively tiny OpenStack specialist Mirantis.

Announced in April 2013, the plan was to create a native OpenStack component that enabled the fast provisioning of Windows environments on demand.

The collaboration will see Oracle’s Solaris, Database 12c and Oracle Multitenant, the multitenant option for Database 12c customers, work with Murano.

The goal is to make it easier to deploy and manage OpenStack clouds running on a multitenant foundation from Oracle in the enterprise.

Integration should let you securely provision pluggable databases on Oracle Solaris and let apps securely access pluggable databases from within OpenStack. We should also see OpenStack apps able to tape features in Oracle’s database and in the underlying Oracle hardware, engineered to work with its database and operating system.

Oracle in a statement claimed to be “excited” to work with Mirantis to combine its Solaris and its heavy-metal databases work with the fledgling directory.

Mirantis pointed to the importance of the presence of Oracle in many enterprises and using this with the OpenStack cloud.

The news, ahead of the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, is the latest tightening of Oracle’s hug of the open-source cloud.

A year ago, Larry Ellison’s giant unveiled its own OpenStack distribution, the latest to do so, after buying Infrastructure-as-a-Service firm Nimbula. Last week it brought on 40 engineers from failed OpenStack start up Nebula.

Nebula was one of the originators of OpenStack; it was co-founded by Chris Kemp, the former NASA Aimes CIO who had led work on what became OpenStack – jointly announced at OSCON 2010 with fellow OpenStack lead Rackspace.

After four rounds of funding and with $38 million behind it, Nebula reckoned the OpenStack market has had yet to mature and it lacked the resources to wait.

With $38 billion in revenue on the other hand, Oracle does have the resources to wait. ®

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