Guest Column: Oracle Leverages Falconstor To Complement Oracle VM's Native Data Protection Strategy

By Jerome M Wendt and James Koopmann, DCIG Inc.

"Own the complete technology stack and you own the world." If you follow Oracle at all, you know (or at least strongly suspect) that this philosophy of complete technology domination pervades its thinking.

Whether these allegations about Oracle are true or not are another story but they make for good conversation, especially when one looks at Oracle VM. After all, Oracle owns the applications, provides a great backend database for those applications, and gives away a virtualized environment to run them on. But is Oracle, with the addition of Oracle VM, ready to own the virtual enterprise data center from top to bottom?