The Oracle Cloud Platform enables customers and partners to easily build new applications,extend Oracle software as a service (SaaS) applications, and migrate existing on-premisesapplications to the cloud.
“Today’s cloud computing technologies have the potential to open up a wealth ofbusiness opportunities, but to truly embrace the benefits the cloud offers, there needs tobe a robust supporting platform in place,” said Thomas Kurian, executive vice presidentof product development at Oracle.
Continuing to innovate and expand the Oracle Cloud portfolio, Oracle introduced six newOracle Cloud Platform services that help customers and partners develop and deploynew applications, extend and personalize Oracle SaaS applications, and migrateexisting on-premises applications to Oracle Cloud.
The Oracle Cloud Platform offers customers and partners the sameplatform as a service (PaaS) foundation upon which Oracle runs its own SaaS applications andupon which many SaaS providers rely.
The Oracle Cloud Platform provides the foundation for Oracle’s own SaaS applicationsand is relied on by most of the world’s top SaaS providers. Oracle provides the sameplatform to enterprises and ISVs, enabling them to take advantage of Oracle Database,Java, and Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies, including rich capabilities formultitenancy, in-memory analytics, mobile, and social.
“With this new set of platform services, Oracle ispositioned even better than before to help our customers realize the true benefits ofcloud computing. Oracle will continue to expand its portfolio of functionally rich,integrated, and secure platform services built on a core set of infrastructure services totruly empower the developer community to build modern applications of tomorrow,”Kurian added.
Based on the performance, reliability, scalability, andsecurity of Oracle Database, Java, and Oracle Fusion Middleware, with built-in multitenancy,in-memoryanalytics, mobile, and social capabilities, the Oracle Cloud Platform provides a fast andeasy way for customers and ISVs to move to the cloud.
Today, Oracle announced expansion of the Oracle Cloud Platform to include newfunctionality for big data analytics, integration, process management, Java Platform,Standard Edition (Java SE), and Node.js for server-side JavaScript.
Oracle Cloud provides the industry’s broadest portfolio of public cloud services acrossSaaS, PaaS, data as a service (DaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).Unlike other clouds that offer services in one or two layers, Oracle Cloud is the onlycloud that delivers a broad portfolio of integrated services across data, applications,platform, and infrastructure areas.
Oracle Cloud continues to show strong adoption, supporting 62 million users and 23billion transactions each day. Oracle Cloud runs on 30,000 devices and 400 petabytes ofstorage in 19 data centers around the world.
Additionally, Oracle continues to provide partners with new opportunities, enabling themto reach Oracle’s customer base, grow their business, and extend their success in thecloud. Oracle also recently announced a new two-tier VAD distribution program, a newcommunity called Oracle Cloud Connection, and the expansion of the Oracle CloudMarketplace to include system integrators.
Business technology research and advisory services firm Ventana Research awardedOracle with the 2014 Technology Innovation Award for Business Innovation in thecategory of Cloud Computing, recognizing the company as a pioneer that drives changeand increased value for organizations.
The Ventana Technology Innovation Awards,presented annually, identify the technologies that have had or have the potential to havethe most striking positive impact on business and honor their providers. Moreinformation on this prestigious award can be found at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/innovationawards .
Latest Additions to Oracle Cloud Platform Services Portfolio include:
Oracle Big Data Cloud: Enables customers to analyze and process vast amounts ofdata using the Hadoop framework on a secure, elastic, managed, and easy-to-useinfrastructure platform that is fully integrated with other Oracle Cloud services.
Oracle Mobile Cloud: Enables customers to rapidly bring enterprise-grade mobile appsto market with a cloud-based mobile back end.
Oracle Integration Cloud: Enables customers to rapidly design, deploy, monitor, andmanage cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premises integrations using a rich and intuitivebrowser-based interface.
Oracle Process Cloud: Empowers business users to design, deploy, monitor, andoptimize business processes to improve efficiency, agility, and productivity.
Oracle Node.js Cloud: Enables customers to easily and rapidly deploy JavaScriptapplications along with any required libraries on a highly available and dynamicallyscalable Oracle Cloud infrastructure complete with cloud-based tooling for continuousintegration and application management.
Oracle Java SE Cloud: Enables customers to quickly deploy Java SE 7 or 8applications along with any required libraries or frameworks on a highly available anddynamically scalable Oracle Cloud infrastructure complete with cloud-based tooling forcontinuous integration and application management.
Oracle Cloud Platform Services Now Generally Availableinclude:
Oracle Database Cloud: Provides full control of a dedicated database instance andsupports any Oracle Database application, giving users greater flexibility and choiceover the level of managed services provided by Oracle.
Oracle Database Backup Cloud: Enables customers to back up on-premisesdatabases to Oracle Cloud with encryption, compression, and three-way mirroring.
Oracle Java Cloud: Provides Oracle WebLogic Server clusters for deployment of Javaapplications and gives full administrative control over the service with automatedbackup, recovery, patching, and high-availability capabilities.
Oracle Messaging Cloud: Provides an infrastructure that enables reliablecommunication between software components.
Oracle Developer Cloud: Provides development teams with a hosted developmentplatform with application lifecycle management and team collaboration.
Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud: Enables users to create visual, interactivedashboards for the web and mobile devices.
Oracle Documents Cloud: Provides a flexible, secure file-sharing and collaborationsolution for mobile devices and desktops, and integration with on-premises and cloudapplications.
Oracle Cloud Solutions
Oracle provides the industry’s broadest and most complete portfolio of public, private, andmanaged cloud offerings to offer customers the choice of deployment model. Oracle Clouddelivers a broad suite of public cloud services across DaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Oracle alsoprovides a rich portfolio of products and managed cloud services to deliver enterprise privateclouds.
About Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco is the most important business and technology conference ofthe year for Oracle customers, prospective customers, and partners. This educationalconference is dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understandupcoming industry trends and breakthroughs driven by technology. Oracle OpenWorld offersmore than 2,700 educational sessions, hundreds of demos and hands-on labs, and exhibitionsfrom more than 450 partners and customers from around the world showcasing applications,middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management, cloud, andinfrastructure solutions—all engineered for innovation. Oracle OpenWorld 2014 is being heldSeptember 28 through October 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. For moreinformation; to register; or to watch Oracle OpenWorld keynotes, sessions, and more, visitwww.oracle.com/openworld. Join the Oracle OpenWorld discussion on Twitter, Facebook, and the Oracle Open World blog.
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