Oracle Challenges Amazon Web Services with Public and Private Clouds
By Karla Robinson
October 2, 2012
October 2, 2012
- Oracle is making a late appearance to the cloud market as it branches into Amazon’s territory, the public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) business.
- Oracle’s new public and private clouds will use “our OS, our VM, our compute services and storage services on the fastest most reliable systems in the world — our engineered systems, Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, all linked with Infiniband,” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said at Oracle OpenWorld Sunday night.
- “The promised Oracle 12c (the ‘c’ stands for cloud) database will be the software foundation and Ellison said this iteration of the database will put multitenancy — the ability to securely keep separate sets of data in one place — at the database level where it belongs,” GigaOM writes, noting that Ellison himself used to call multitenancy an aging technology.
- “By moving multitenancy into the database, software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) providers can relinquish that workload to the database and use database query and business intelligence tools to work with them instead of having to come up with application-specific tools,” the article continues.
- Oracle must make a case for its hardware though, critics say. On Twitter, people said the venture would be more impressive if Oracle had a list of customers and/or partners that have come on board.
- “In addition, Oracle’s decision to use very high-end specialized hardware to power its cloud flies in the face of conventional wisdom espoused by Web giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon that yoke together thousands of commodity servers in webscale data centers,” the article states. “Oracle’s take is definitely scale-up in what appears to be an increasingly scale-out world.”
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