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Oracle is reaping the fruit of years of their strategy alignment to the evolving cloud technology and is well prepared to address the challenges of all aspects the cloud service delivery.
Oracle CloudWorld has arrived with its comprehensive portfolio of cloud services.
Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that started in 2011 with Customer Relations Management (CRM), Human Capital Management (HCM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suites is further enriched to include Talent Management and Sales and Marketing, with more being rolled out later this year.
The recently announced Oracle Cloud offering of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) takes care of the hardware requirements of the IT infrastructure. It allows deployment of Virtual Machines, OS Servers and ample storage on the Oracle Cloud.
Oracle Virtual Machine VBox, and Linux operating systems are Industry Standard solutions ensuring compatibility and portability of the solutions. The processing capacity is available elastically upon demand using a utility company model and treating computing resources in the same way as we treat our electricity supply.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) encompasses the Oracle Database, widely acknowledged as the number one database engine, the Java programming language, Fusion Middleware and Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM).
Oracle Database 11gR2 is available as Database as a Service (DBaaS) since October 2012 and is deployed on Oracle Exadata with Oracle Exalogic.
It is an out of the box database with the standard Oracle development tools i.e. SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, Oracle Application Express as well as the RESTful Web Services wizard. It is available in three database sizes: 5GB, 30GB, 50GB with data transfer volumes six times the database size (30GB,120GB,300GB respectively). The monthly subscription costs are currently given as $175 for a 5GB database, $900 for a 20GB and $2000 for a 50GB database. While it is in most cases not suitable for a heavy production solution, it allows for instantaneous provisioning of environments without commitment of long-term capital expenditure.
Oracle Database 12c with Enterprise Manager 12c is set to deliver unparalleled performance using Oracle new Exadata X3 In-Memory Machine. Its new architecture simplifies multi-database environments and thus enables considerable cost savings. It is part of the Oracle Managed Private Cloud offering announced in October 2012.
Oracle stresses its commitment to the support of both Private and Public areas of Oracle Cloud as well as comprehensive delivery across all three architectural cloud levels: SaaS, PaaS and Iaas. Oracle solution challenges the way the cloud services have been delivered until now and promises flexible and scalable solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Acornford is watching these developments closely with an eye to the practical applications as the new technologies evolve.
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Oracle Cloud Offering
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Oracle Open World - September 2012
Oracle Cloud offering is a result of the years of strategic planning. Today it iincorporates all areas of the cloud services: Service as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service.
Larry Ellison, Oracle Corporation CEO made four major announcements in his keynote address :
1. Oracle Cloud IaaS
2. Oracle Owned and Managed Private Cloud
3. Oracle Database version 12c
4. Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine
These are major milestones in the delivery of the Cloud Services to the business, placing Oracle in the forefront of the innovation and technology advancement.
Not only is the Oracle the only vendor addressing all three tiers of the cloud offering, it is also setting new benchmarks in the business
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Oracle Cloud Announcement - June 2012
Oracle Cloud Conference in London in February 2012 signalled Oracle final stages in the deployment of their cloud strategy, albeit without the details of what is to come.
Much anticipated announcement of the Oracle cloud by the CEO Larry Ellison finally arrived in June : "We’re announcing the general availability of the Oracle Cloud: Platform as a Service, Database Service, Java Service and a bunch of applications"
It highlighter the scope of the Oracle Cloud undertaking while still not giving us enough to get on board.
Oracle Cloud Announcements
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