Oracle announced new additions to its Enterprise Cloud platform as it aims to become number one cloud player in the world. The cloud platform with new features enables 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 its portfolio of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. 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 helps customers build new applications, extend existing ones, and easily move existing on-premises workloads to the cloud with no application changes.
The services are designed to maximize end user experience and productivity; enable developers to manage and analyze 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.
“Oracle is growing really fast. We sold $426 mn 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,” said Ellison. “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.”
Oracle Cloud Platform is experiencing exponential growth and is already powering some of the world’s most recognizable brands and organizations. Oracle Cloud Platform has more than 1,800 customers with 1,419 added in the last quarter. Australian Finance Group, Avaya, and Calix are a few of the many organizations using currently available Oracle Cloud Platform services, including the Database Cloud, Java Cloud, Documents Cloud, Business Intelligence Cloud, and the Database Backup Service.
“We are upbeat about the growth for Oracle Cloud Services. The new Oracle Cloud Platform will strengthen our cloud portfolio for PaaS and IaaS, over and above the success for our SaaS business. This will help us become the preferred provider of cloud solutions for Indian enterprises. To increase the footprint, we will the leverage Oracle’s large install base of Database and middleware customers who want to take advantage of the flexibility, agility, and financial opportunities the cloud (private or public) presents. Private cloud deployments offer a great opportunity to expand our customer base in India. We will work closely with partners and system integrators to expand the market. We are excited about this opportunity,” said Mitesh Agarwal, Vice President – Sales Consulting & CTO, Oracle India.
“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,’” said Robert Mahowald, program vice president, Cloud Software, IDC. “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.”
Oracle Cloud continues to show strong adoption, supporting 70+ million users and more than 33 billion transactions each day. It runs on 54,000 devices and more than 700 petabytes of storage in 19 data centers around the world.