Intel and Oracle setup a secret team to take on cloud computing, IBM

October 26, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from BusinessInsider. Author: Julie Bort.

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich took the stage Sunday night with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd during the opening night at Oracle’s tech conference. The two companies have been partners for decades but now, they have a new common competitor: IBM. This now that IBM has sold its Intel-based computer server business to Lenovo and is now concentrating on selling only the more expensive, higher-margin computer servers that use its own Power chip.

So a few months ago, Oracle’s rising star head of engineering and products, Thomas Kurian, met with a few of Intel’s Software and Services Group, Doug Fisher said on stage. Fisher and Kurian decided to set up a joint team of engineers from both companies near Intel’s facilities in Oregon, code named Project Apollo…

The team was told to figure out how to set up massive cloud computing data centres that will run faster by using Oracle hardware with Intel chips and take on IBM in the cloud computing hardware market…

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