Oracle extends enterprise cloud portfolio with 24 new cloud services

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Oracle has announced 24 new cloud services to extend its Oracle cloud platform 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 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.

Till date, Oracle cloud platform has around 1,800 customers with 1,419 added in the last quarter. The key cutomers are Australian Finance Group, Avaya, and Calix-to name a few.

“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,” said Larry Ellison, Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO, Oracle.

“Oracle’s 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,” he added.

“To increase Oracle’s footprint in India, the company 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,” said Mitesh Agarwal, Vice President – Sales Consulting & CTO, Oracle India.