Grid Computing News : Oracle Focuses on Grid, Developer Tools

SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle's harnessing the power of the grid. Today here at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 at the Moscone Convention Center, the company unveiled a revamped edition of BEA's WebLogic application server designed for the latest trends in application development and deployment: virtualization, resource consolidation and a focus on efficiency. The upshot is that switching to a grid infrastructure can help cut costs, better use power and capacity and more effectively scale applications, according to Thomas Kurian, senior vice president of Oracle Middleware Fusion. On top of the WebLogic Application Grid, Oracle will "build open and best of breed middleware for [service oriented architecture (SOA)], transaction processing, content management, business intelligence, user interaction with identity management and a common way to manage these," Kurian said. It also includes Oracle WebLogic Server, which is built on top of JRocket, and Coherence data management and caching technology for computing clusters, which "can pre-fetch data into the in-memory data grid" for better performance and throughput," Kurian said.... read more