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Oracle extends comprehensive suite of cloud services

CALIFORNIA, June 24, 2015

Oracle has unveiled new additions to its cloud platform, a comprehensive, integrated suite of services that will make it easier for developers, IT professionals, business users and analysts to build, extend and integrate cloud applications.

With more than 24 new cloud services, the Oracle Cloud Platform extends Oracle’s leadership with the world’s broadest and deepest portfolio of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.

The newly available Oracle Cloud services include, Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.

The Oracle Cloud Platform will help customers build new applications, extend existing ones, and easily move existing on-premises workloads to the cloud with no application changes.  

The services have been designed to maximise end user experience and productivity; enable developers to manage and analyse data, rapidly develop, test and deploy applications; enable architects to quickly integrate across on-premises and cloud applications; and enable business users to drive rich business insights and enterprise collaboration.

With the Oracle Cloud Platform, customers and partners will be able to take advantage of the industry-leading Oracle middleware and database software that thousands of global organisations already use to run their own businesses, all delivered via cloud.

The extensive level of automation that has been engineered into the Oracle Cloud, results in faster time-to-value, greater innovation, and lower cost for customers.

Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer, said: “Oracle is growing really fast. We sold $426M worth of business in SaaS and PaaS last quarter, a 200 percent increase over the same quarter last year. That's an industry record, no company has ever sold that much in just one quarter.

“Oracle is the only company on the planet that can deliver a complete, integrated, standards-based suite of services at every layer of the cloud. Those technology advantages enable us to be much more cost-effective than our competitors. Our new Archive Storage service goes head-to-head with Amazon Glacier and it’s one-tenth their price.”

Robert Mahowald, programme vice president, Cloud Software, IDC, said: “According to IDC’s CloudView Survey, the top IT benefit of PaaS is having ‘a self-service environment for access to development and deployment tools’– and for business users the top benefit is ‘built-in integration with my SaaS applications.

“Having a full-service PaaS platform alongside a complete applications portfolio satisfies both needs, and users of the Oracle Cloud Platform benefit from access to the robust application development and deployment, data management, Big Data analytics, integration, and mobile capabilities, satisfying the key IT and LOB needs.”

Ahmed Adly, Oracle Cloud leader, said: “Platform as a Service makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to Oracle’s top grade software easily and at a reasonable price. The platform in the cloud solves two big IT problems that companies have faced. The first is the cost. Now companies can consume Oracle’s business software by subscription.

“This means they don’t have to invest a lot of money in hardware and licences. The second problem PaaS solves is that of skills. Administration, maintenance and basic setting up of IT systems are necessary but low-value activities.”

With Oracle’s new solution, the first person to interact with the cloud is the application developer who has everything he or she needs ready to develop and deploy on mobile, in the cloud or on premise, and that makes a big difference. The platform as a service will make it easy for organisations to develop new systems that add more value to their  business. - TradeArabia News Service




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