Oracle Offers New Cloud Services

Grazed from ChannelPartnersOnline. Author: Editorial Staff.

If someone were to say, “Oracle is the most comprehensive cloud provider on the planet," would you believe them? Based on the company’s track record, probably not. But make no mistake, the company that makes the above claim – Oracle itself – is getting very serious about cloud computing.

This week, the Redwood Shores, Calif., company announced the availability of two important services that will be delivered as a service over the Web: the Oracle Database Backup Service and the Oracle Storage Cloud Service. According to Oracle, the new announcements provide customers “the flexibility to easily move critical applications and data from on-premises to the cloud and vice-versa."…

Part of the Oracle Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio, the new Database Backup Service provides a cloud backup solution that Oracle says can “be an integral part of multi-tier database backup and recovery [strategy]." Among other things, Oracle Database Backup Service helps customers “parallelize and compress backup data transfers to help maximize performance and includes client-side encryption to provide end-to-end data security."…

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