Oracle launches line of on-premise IaaS systems

Grazed from TechWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.

Oracle has launched a set of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) systems that companies can run in-house and pay for on a monthly basis, a project the company announced at OpenWorld in September. Oracle is not pitching the IaaS offers as an alternative to commodity cloud services, such as the Amazon Web Services (AWS), but rather as an alternative to purchasing Oracle systems for on premise deployment.

Using Oracle IaaS, the company claims, eliminates the upfront capital costs of buying new equipment, and could quickly provide additional capacity, at a price, when needed. With Oracle IaaS, customers can lease versions of many of Oracle’s integrated systems, including versions of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster, the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and the Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance…

In a data sheet on the company’s Web site, Oracle explained that the IaaS service could be less expensive than purchasing an Oracle system, such as an Exadata X3-2 Engineered System, if no additional capacity-on-demand (CoD) is used. Purchasing an Exadata system would cost over US$1,360,000 over three years, though an identical Oracle IaaS setup would cost only $1,080,000 over that same time, with no CoD…

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