Oracle pole its luster (Computerworld)

IDG News Service - even though a number of small businesses have been Rails support for a system file called lustre that acquired earlier this year in the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Oracle himself has not intention to abandon the technology, a leader company told the IDG News Service interview.

"Oracle is unwavering in our commitment towards technology lustre, gloss community and the wider community of supercomputer in General,", said Jason Schaffer, Oracle Senior Director of products for storage management. "Thanks to Oracle acquisition is a lot of opportunities for our competitors to say things that are a little presumptuous, if not too presumptuous in [the terms what] Oracle develop or not develop", he added.

Reinsurance Schaffer come after a long period of calm technology company makes some users nervous gloss and other vendors rush chandelier provide their own marketing messages. Brent Gorda, CEO of Whamcloud, based in San Francisco, venture-funded company started this year to service implementations of lustre, pointed out in October, to the lustre and community there is a 'perception that Oracle is backup away [high performance computing] and Linux open,"he said.

Gloss is what is known as a massively parallel file system which means that it can be used for the storage of large sets of data on multiple nodes. The technology is used in a large percentage of the fastest supercomputers worldwide. For example, 61 100 systems top in the most recent Top500 list of most powerful computers in the world use the system files, including the Tianhe-1 system was placed top of China. Note that it could also be used in cloud computing and defenders.

In April, Oracle chandelier engineer Peter Bojanic gave a presentation on the future of lustre to a group of users, noting that while Oracle will continue to offer current gloss running storage hardware packages, it did not intend to sell a stand-alone version of the software. The company has remained since calm in large part on the progress of the software, even if in August he quietly released the 2.0 version of the file system.

This silence troubled some luster users, see how Oracle used silence to note its lack of interest with OpenSolaris, a version developed for the Sun Solaris community open system. Questions not helping is the fact that Oracle has lost a number of key lustre engineers over the past year. One was Bojanic, who was joined by Xyratex enhanced, a lustre-based storage software provider started by lustre creator Peter Braam.

Despite these signs, Oracle remains committed to gloss, Schaffer said. Oracle plans to continue to maintain the "canonical branch" of the software and make it available. He said: "we do not intend to depart from that role and we also do not have plans to create an industry privacy code;

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