Oracle debuts ‘first database designed for the cloud’

Grazed from CloudPro.  Author: Jane McCallion.

Cloud service provider Oracle has launched its new database offering that the company claims will better meet the technology needs of organisations moving to the cloud.  Oracle Database 12c provides a new multitenant architecture built on top of a fast, scalable, reliable and secure database platform. The next-generation database is the first to be designed for the cloud, the company claims.

The platform is particularly suitable for organisations wishing to deploy private database clouds in addition to being of use to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors, Oracle said.   “The innovations in Oracle Database 12c were developed with our customers’ cloud requirements very much in mind," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president for database server technologies at Oracle…


“The new multitenant architecture makes it easier for customers to consolidate their databases and securely manage many as one. It also offers customers other capabilities for cloud computing such as simplified provisioning, cloning and resource prioritisation without resorting to major application changes…

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