--- New platform and infrastructure services enable developers, IT
professionals, and business users to drive innovation and
accelerate digital transformation
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. /PRNewswire/ -- At a live event today,
Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO Larry Ellison announced new additions to
the Oracle Cloud
Platform, a comprehensive, integrated suite of services that
make it easier for developers, IT professionals, business users and
analysts to build, extend and integrate cloud applications. With
more than 24 new cloud services, the Oracle Cloud Platform extends
Oracle's leadership with the world's broadest and deepest portfolio
of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Newly available Oracle Cloud services
include Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage
Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle
Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.
The
Oracle Cloud Platform helps customers build new applications,
extend existing ones, and easily move existing on-premises
workloads to the cloud with no application changes. The services
are designed to maximize end user experience and productivity;
enable developers to manage and analyze data, rapidly develop, test
and deploy applications; enable architects to quickly integrate
across on-premises and cloud applications; and enable business
users to drive rich business insights and enterprise collaboration.
With the Oracle Cloud Platform, customers and partners are able to
take advantage of the industry-leading Oracle middleware and
database software that thousands of global organizations already
use to run their own businesses, all delivered via cloud. The
extensive level of automation that has been engineered into the
Oracle Cloud results in faster time-to-value, greater innovation,
and lower cost for customers.
"Oracle is growing really fast. We sold $426M worth of business in SaaS and PaaS last
quarter, a 200 percent increase over the same quarter last year.
That's an industry record, no company has ever sold that much in
just one quarter," said Ellison. "Oracle is the only company on the
planet that can deliver a complete, integrated, standards-based
suite of services at every layer of the cloud. Those technology
advantages enable us to be much more cost-effective than our
competitors. Our new Archive Storage service goes head-to-head with
Amazon Glacier and it's one-tenth their price."
Oracle
Cloud Platform is experiencing exponential growth and is already
powering some of the world's most recognizable brands and
organizations. Oracle Cloud Platform has more than
1,800 customers with 1,419 added in the last quarter.
Australian Finance Group, Avaya, and Calix are a few of the many
organizations using currently available Oracle Cloud Platform
services, including the Database Cloud, Java Cloud, Documents
Cloud, Business Intelligence Cloud, and the Database Backup
Service.
"According to IDC's CloudView Survey, the top IT benefit of PaaS is
having 'a self-service environment for access to development and
deployment tools'– and for business users the top benefit is
'built-in integration with my SaaS applications,'" according
to Robert Mahowald, program vice president, Cloud Software,
IDC. "Having a full-service PaaS platform alongside a complete
applications portfolio satisfies both needs, and users of the
Oracle Cloud Platform benefit from access to the robust application
development and deployment, data management, Big Data analytics,
integration, and mobile capabilities, satisfying the key IT and LOB
needs."
Oracle
Cloud continues to show strong adoption, supporting 70+ million
users and more than 33 billion transactions each day. It runs on
54,000 devices and more than 700 petabytes of storage in 19 data
centers around the world.
The
new Oracle Cloud Platform and Infrastructure services now
available:
Oracle Database Cloud – Exadata
Service brings the full power of the Oracle Exadata
database platform to the cloud. With this service, customers can
run Oracle databases in the cloud with the same functionality,
performance and availability of on-premises Oracle Exadata-based
production databases, already in operation at thousands of mission
critical sites worldwide. Oracle databases deployed in the cloud as
part of this service are 100 percent compatible with those that are
deployed on-premises, enabling a smooth migration to the cloud, as
well as a seamless transition to a hybrid cloud strategy.
Oracle Archive Storage Cloud
Service provides storage for applications and
workloads that require long-term retention at the lowest price in
the industry. As a "deep cloud" archive, the Archive Storage Cloud
is suited for infrequently accessed large-scale data sets, such as
corporate financial records, medical and pharmaceutical archives,
cultural preservation content, insurance records and digital film
masters. The service, backed by enterprise-grade SLAs, enables
organizations to access archived documents and data sets using
industry-standard APIs, and integration with Oracle and third-party
backup, archival and preservation software. It also provides an
additional tier for on-premises Oracle storage systems, including
ZS Series, FS Series and Oracle StorageTek tape solutions.
Oracle Big Data Cloud Service and Big Data SQL
Cloud Service provides a high-performance, secure
platform for running diverse workloads on Hadoop and NoSQL
databases to help enterprises acquire and organize Big Data.
Combined with the new Big Data SQL Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud
extends Oracle's industry-leading implementation of SQL to Hadoop
and NoSQL, providing users with a comprehensive Big Data Management
System in an enterprise cloud.
Oracle Integration Cloud
Service simplifies integration between the cloud and
on-premises Oracle and third-party applications. Innovative new
features, such as pre-built integrations and embedded best practice
recommendations, provide an entirely new application integration
experience…
Oracle Mobile Cloud
Service …
Oracle Process Cloud Service …
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