"Customers can release the shackles binding them to large, legacy SMP platforms and extend virtualization from the application server to the storage pool using both Oracle Database 11g and Pillar Axiom. We enthusiastically share Oracle's mission to increase resource utilization and take full advantage of IT infrastructure." "QLogic's industry leading SANblade Fibre Channel HBA solutions, powered by hardware-assisted virtualization technologies, ship with Oracle VM and provide optimized performance and scalability as expected by enterprise customers," said Frank Berry, vice president of marketing, QLogic Corp. "Our mutual data center customers will enjoy the benefits of this partnership backed by the QLogic global support model and Oracle's world-class support organization." Availability and Pricing Oracle VM is based on the open source Xen hypervisor technology.