Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel has joined Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle on stage during the Oracle's tech conference opening night on Sunday. These giant companies have worked together for so many decades. Now, the two have something in common, IBM is their rival.
IBM has already sold its Intel-based computer server business to Lenovo. At present, IBM is quite focused when it comes to the sales of computer servers that use its own Power chip. Needless to say, IBM does not have its eyes on computer server hardware, but only focused on newer areas, which include big data/analytics trend as well as cloud computing.
Thomas Kurian, the head of engineering and products departments in Oracle, as well as Doug Fisher from Intel's Software and Services group, came up to a mutual decision. Both of them decided that is fine to set up a joint team of engineers using Project Apollo as a codename. This happened a couple of months ago near the Intel's facilities located in Oregon based on the reports, Money reported.
The team was tasked on how to determine how huge the cloud computing data centers could be set up that will utilize the Oracle's hardware and Intel's chips to take on IBM in the cloud computing industry. Project Apollo has successfully finished its task and the team of professionals are now sharing how to documents to persuade enterprise customers to use their technology in creating data centers, The Inquirer reported.
At present, Hurd and Krzanich is planning to have another partnership targeting database and software customers and convincing them to leave their IBM computer servers and make use of their own Oracle/Intel servers. According to Hurd, there are over thousands of customers who are now running their software and agreed to drop IBM.