Oracle To Launch Cloud IaaS In 2014
December 27, 2013
Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says his company intends to be price competitive with established cloud infrastructure-as-a-service players like Amazon, Microsoft and Rackspace. While Oracle’s cloud portfolio to date is focused on its own products, it’s planning to roll out a cloud IaaS service in the first half of next year that’s aimed at Amazon Web Services, IBM and other cloud providers. "We intend to compete aggressively in the commodity infrastructure as a service marketplace," Ellison said during Oracle’s second-quarter earnings call.
The Oracle empire was built on high-margin products, which is why this was a surprising comment. It’s hard to imagine Oracle engaging in a price war in the cloud IaaS trenches with Amazon Web Services, which is constantly slashing pricing for its cloud services, and Microsoft, which has vowed match Amazon’s price cuts with Windows Azure IaaS…
Turns out cloud IaaS is just a part of Oracle’s cloud strategy. Oracle will also sell a "highly differentiated platform as a service" as well as a suite of enterprise SaaS apps, Ellison said during the call. Oracle’s combination of cloud apps, platform and infrastructure is something its enterprise rivals can’t match, according to Ellison…
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