Tech giant Oracle has announced corporate sponsorship of the OpenStack Foundation, clearing the path for integration between the open source software and its various clouds.

The Redwood firm plans to integrate a huge amount of its products into the OpenStack technology, including Oracle’s virtual machine, its infrastructure as a service, as well as its Exalogic elastic cloud, its storage and its compute cloud.

Edward Screven, chief corporate architect at Oracle, said in a statement: “Oracle is pleased to join the OpenStack Foundation and plans to integrate OpenStack capabilities into a broad set of Oracle products and cloud services.

“Our goal is to give customers greater choice and flexibility in how they use Oracle products and services in public and private clouds,” he added.

Mark Collier, OpenStack Foundation chief operating officer, said: “We welcome Oracle to the OpenStack community, and look forward to innovative contributions from their many domain experts …