Comments on: Oracle snaps up Xsigo for SDN smarts

By: Greg Knieriemen

Greg Knieriemen — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:29:53 +0000

RK – you are exactly right. In reality, Xsigo is more of a competitor to Cisco UCS (by virtue of the streamlined networking/speed) than anything else

By: RK

RK — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:44:43 +0000

Nothing to do with SDN, this is a Remote I/O expansion box, it is tied to server with a Infiniband link at 20GB/Sec – 40GB/Sec. This is needed due to Server Consolidation due to VM’s, So that VM’s can more IO.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:53:14 +0000

Yes let me know what you find out about Ellison. I didn’t find anything directly associated with him. The sales guy could have been referring to Infini Band which is Xsigo’s preferred transport technology or I could be mis-remembering the conversation.

Unless you had talked with Xsigo directly and demoed their product I doubt you could have determined that they aren’t a SDN play by their marketing material. I think everyone is trying to get in on a SDN payday. Heck for $1B I’m all about SDN :)

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:43:47 +0000

@keith @greg I did use verbiage from the Oracle press release. Mea Culpa. They are clearly positioning this as an SDN play — whehter it is one or not. If ellison is an investor that is interesting. Oracle has been down this road before — Pillar etc. will look into it.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:41:12 +0000

And you’re right. Computerworld.com has the same slant that it is a SDN play.

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:40:20 +0000

When I got pitched from them last year they claimed Ellison was a big investor.

By: Greg Knieriemen

Greg Knieriemen — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:38:01 +0000

Exactly right Keith. The fact that Xsigo isn’t even a member of the Open Networking Foundation (the center of all things SDN) should be a big tip off – https://www.opennetworking.org/membership/members

. In fairness, all tech media got this wrong and Barb was racing to publish first rather than being right.

The story here is that Xsigo IS NOT really all that deep with SDN, so what in the hell is Oracle doing here?

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:31:25 +0000

And it seems more like fluff to get in a one of the hot tech keywords.

By: Greg Knieriemen

Greg Knieriemen — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:25:42 +0000

Wait…. there is one page on Xsigo’s site that mentions SDN: http://www.xsigo.com/blog/tag/software-defined-networks/

By: Greg Knieriemen

Greg Knieriemen — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:07:01 +0000

This is what happens when you read a press release without doing real research: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1721421

Site search on Xsigo for “Software defined networking”:
http://www.xsigo.com/search/search.php?search=1&query=Software+Defined+Networking