Oracle Keeps Its Head in the Cloud

A week afterwards VMware unveiled its $1.26 billion deal for networking-software provider Nicira, Oracle says it’s buying Xsigo, another company that greases cloud-computing systems by virtualizing the routers and switches that make the systems possible.

Oracle doesn’t disclose terms — deal is likely much smaller than VMware’s — nevertheless cloud-computing companies’ interest in controlling networks only seems to be growing.