As Larry Ellison said in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote last week, when it comes to the public cloud, it’s early days for the enterprise.
Amazon Web Services may now enjoy $7.3 billion in annual revenue and 81 percent year-over-year growth, but the proportion of enterprise workloads running in the public cloud remains a small slice.
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From that perspective, Oracle’s entry into IaaS last week doesn’t seem as late as it otherwise might. Three years ago the company jumped into SaaS and PaaS. Last week Oracle president Thomas Kurian announced that an Elastic Compute Cloud was on its way, along with two new Storage Cloud services and a Network Cloud. For all you Docker fans out there, a Container Cloud is coming, too.
I realize that Oracle announcements like this inspire eye-rolling. Who will turn to Oracle for IaaS, even if it fulfills Kurian’s promise that it will be cost competitive?
Oracle’s answer: enterprise customers. Here’s how vice president of public cloud Amit Chaudhry described his approach to me last week:
There you have it. The typical cloud pattern today is that enterprises turn to AWS to build a fancy new e-commerce platform or a bursty big data application -- and Amazon, as it clearly indicated at its Re:Invent show last month, now wants to lure enterprises to migrate or build core applications on its platform. Oracle, on the other hand, says it already offers a proven enterprise cloud platform and is creating an IaaS platform to accommodate anything else an enterprise might want to build and run, even if the person building it is an LoB user buying some Elastic Compute instances with a credit card.
Read More : http://www.infoworld.com/article/3000797/cloud-computing/yes-oracle-is-finally-serious-about-the-cloud.html
Amazon Web Services may now enjoy $7.3 billion in annual revenue and 81 percent year-over-year growth, but the proportion of enterprise workloads running in the public cloud remains a small slice.
InfoWorld Mobile Security Deep Dive
Mobile security: The InfoWorld Deep Dive
This guide, available in both PDF and ePub editions, explains the security capabilities inherent to
From that perspective, Oracle’s entry into IaaS last week doesn’t seem as late as it otherwise might. Three years ago the company jumped into SaaS and PaaS. Last week Oracle president Thomas Kurian announced that an Elastic Compute Cloud was on its way, along with two new Storage Cloud services and a Network Cloud. For all you Docker fans out there, a Container Cloud is coming, too.
I realize that Oracle announcements like this inspire eye-rolling. Who will turn to Oracle for IaaS, even if it fulfills Kurian’s promise that it will be cost competitive?
Oracle’s answer: enterprise customers. Here’s how vice president of public cloud Amit Chaudhry described his approach to me last week:
There you have it. The typical cloud pattern today is that enterprises turn to AWS to build a fancy new e-commerce platform or a bursty big data application -- and Amazon, as it clearly indicated at its Re:Invent show last month, now wants to lure enterprises to migrate or build core applications on its platform. Oracle, on the other hand, says it already offers a proven enterprise cloud platform and is creating an IaaS platform to accommodate anything else an enterprise might want to build and run, even if the person building it is an LoB user buying some Elastic Compute instances with a credit card.
Read More : http://www.infoworld.com/article/3000797/cloud-computing/yes-oracle-is-finally-serious-about-the-cloud.html
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