Oracle-Lanmark collaboration could be good for businesses

Virtualisation and capacity management services platform provider Lanamark is working with Oracle to enable users to use Lanmark suite for capacity planning and virtualisation based on Oracle VM.

Lanamark’s suite will allow Oracle partners to enhance the design and deliver of Oracle VM virtualisation offerings. Further, the two companies are working together to help solution providers gather information about x86/x64 and SPARC environments. The new offering will support application, middleware, database, operating system, server, storage and thin client components from Oracle and Oracle partners.

Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark, said: “Oracle enables its partners to deliver a complete stack with enterprise-class software and hardware components that can be deployed, managed and supported together. Using Lanamark Suite, Oracle partners can analyse existing x86/x64 and SPARC environments, perform capacity planning and design end-to-end IT systems with highly available, scalable and cost-effective virtualisation delivered by Oracle VM.”

Over at Oracle, Jeff Doolan, Director of Virtualisation and Linux Channels, was equally keen. He said: “Partners play a key role in delivering integrated IT solutions that enable customers to reduce IT costs and focus on their core business.”

The collaboration has been received with approval in the sector. At Virtually Speaking, Dan Kuznetsky recommends Lanmark on the basis of its collaboration with Oracle. He wrote:

“In the case of this announcement, there are two goals: helping the channel move from a project focus to a services focus and providing tools that make it easy to provide hardware lifecycle management, server consolidation virtual infrastructure optimization and software asset management.

“If your organization offers IT products and services, Lanamark’s suite might be worth a look.”