Yes, Oracle is finally serious about the cloud

November 4, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Eric Knorr.

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.

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?…

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