Dell, EMC, Intel and Oracle form MegaGrid
Dell, EMC, Intel and Oracle form MegaGrid
Dec 8, 2004: Some of the super players in the storage world have united forces to combine the best of their assets so that enterprise customers will find it easier to integrate their products and an effective grid solution.
Dell, EMC, Intel and Oracle collaborated jointly to form Project MegaGrid, which initially will involve testing compatibility of the different systems to create a scalable comprehensive database, server and networked storage system at the Oracle Global IT Data Center.
Dell will provide a complete enterprise-class networked server infrastructure, consisting of dual Intel Xeon and 4-way Intel Itanium processor-based PowerEdge servers.
EMC will deliver a complete networked storage infrastructure consisting of EMC CLARiiON CX and EMC Symmetrix DMX networked storage systems, EMC Celerra NS Series/Gateway Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems, EMC ControlCenter and EMC Navisphere information management software.
Intel contributes processor and server management expertise for both Intel Xeon processor and Intel Itanium processor architectures, optimisation tools, and other resources that allow for a seamless design integration; and Oracle supplies its Oracle 10g technology infrastructure (Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g.
The idea behind Project MegaGrid is to allow all enterprise organisations to take advantage of enterprise grid computing by uniting disparate IT resources that can be managed automatically.
Online retailer Overstock.com, is already working with the big four to build an enterprise grid computing infrastructure. Shawn Schwegman, the vice president of technology at Overstock.com said: "Overstock.com runs EMC, Oracle, Dell and Intel as the cornerstone of our information infrastructure. As a world leader in Internet retail, finding ways to drive down infrastructure costs, while still retaining high quality of service is of key concern.
"The combination of Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g running Linux on Dell Servers, attached to EMC networked storage, enables a low-cost flexible Grid Computing infrastructure that can scale as a business grows.
"The work these four partners are doing through Project MegaGrid serves to further simplify and accelerate deployment and provides openly available best practices to simplify management of Grid Computing environments."
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