Three things Oracle has done to become a big cloud player
July 25, 2013
Grazed from Network World. Author: Brandon Butler.
Oracle had a busy couple of weeks at the end of June, rolling out a new version of its database software and announcing partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. In doing so the company – who’s CEO Larry Ellison at one time bemoaned cloud computing – has almost overnight become a major player in the industry. Here’s why.
The moves are not just significant for Oracle; the partnerships that the company has garnered are significant to the partnering with Microsoft and Salesforce, too. And they’ll also reverberate across the industry to competing companies such as Amazon Web Services and SAP, predicts Holger Mueller, vice president at Constellation Research who recently published a report about these developments. “The bottom line: Oracle technology will play a fundamental role accelerating cloud adoption,” he writes…
During the last week of June, Oracle announced Oracle Database 12c with a built-in multi-tenant architecture geared specifically for running cloud workloads; the “c” stands for cloud. The day before it had announced a partnership with Microsoft in which Oracle DB will now support Windows Hyper-V virtualization platform, marking the first time Oracle has supported another hypervisor. Microsoft also announced that its Azure cloud platform will support Oracle Linux, Java and databases…
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