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Thursday, 22 September 2016

Oracle releases database update in the cloud, before on-premise

Oracle’s new database is being made available in the cloud first. At the heart of Oracle’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is Oracle’s new database-as-a-service (DBaaS) based on Oracle Database 12c Release 2.

Oracle Database 12c Release 2 enables businesses to take advantage of on-premise-grade capabilities to run database development, small to mid-sized business and departmental applications, as well as enterprise applications in the cloud.

Oracle also unveiled new enhancements and Oracle Cloud Platform offerings. This includes simplified migration and extension of enterprise workloads in the cloud, tools for cloud-native, and low-code development. PaaS enhancements include 19 new cloud services including: Container Cloud Service, Oracle Identity Cloud Service, Oracle Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Service, Big Data Cloud Services and Oracle Analytics Cloud Services.

According to Oracle concerns about security, scale and complexity, uncertain migration paths, fragmented toolsets, and inconsistent user experiences have left many businesses sitting on the sidelines in search of a cloud offering with the on-premise-grade capabilities enterprise IT requires. With these announcements, Oracle is delivering the end-to-end capabilities enterprises need to take full advantage of the cloud.

“Oracle Cloud Platform enables developers, IT, and line of business leaders to easily leverage the Cloud for any workload,” said Thomas Kurian, President of Oracle product development. “Oracle Cloud Platform offers an integrated offering across infrastructure-as-a-service, PaaS, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), because that’s what the enterprise customer demands. Oracle makes it easy to run our open standards based PaaS in the public cloud with high performance and availability.”

The release of the flagship Oracle Database 12c Release 2, coming first in the cloud, marks a milestone for both Oracle and enterprises. Building on its multi-tenant architecture and in-memory technology, Oracle’s flagship database is poised to exceed today’s requirements and offer faster analytics workloads plus support for database magnitudes of up to hundreds of terabytes.

Oracle Database will also help reinvent productivity for DevOps while bolstering security by enabling rapid setup and teardown of new databases as well as advanced configuration to combine the performance of Oracle Exadata engineered systems with Oracle’s pluggable database technology. This next-generation standard of performance is now available as an entry-level solution for small to medium sized databases in production, development and testing – starting at US$175 per month with the Oracle Exadata Express Cloud Service.

Oracle's new PaaS services, which make it easier to develop, move, manage and connect in the cloud include:

  • Support for PHP, along with Node.js and Java for Oracle’s Application Container Cloud Service, 
  • Enabling complete applications to be authored from a browser without coding skills using the Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service low-code development platform, and
  • Making collaboration between developers easier in Oracle Developer Cloud Service by integrating with popular collaboration tools like Slack, Hipchat, Hashicorp's Packer and Terraform and including agile management features for managing sprints, tasks and backlogs.

Some of the new cloud service capabilities include:

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service now provides actionable insights and engagement across multi-channels and micro locations to improve the customer experience. It also provides an intelligent and contextual chatbots experience across multiple messaging channels like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Kik and others.

Oracle Identity Cloud Service is a new cloud-native security and identity platform that quickly integrates with cloud applications using open standards and allows user identities to be managed across cloud and on-premise deployments.

Security is further enhanced with the new Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Service in the new Oracle Management Cloud that uses machine learning to help identify threats and provide early warnings. Oracle Management Cloud is the first fully integrated tool to manage the lifecycle of enterprise applications. It uses machine learning to monitor and analyse end-to-end operational data across heterogeneous environments, detect anomalies and help ensure performance and compliance.

Developers can use Oracle API Platform Cloud Service to create, secure and manage their APIs with zero code and pre-built analytics charts, while being able to run the API gateway within the Oracle Cloud, on-premise or on third party clouds. Zero-code orchestration for cloud-to-on-premise integration is also now available with Oracle Integration Cloud Service.

Oracle’s Data Integration Cloud Service offers streaming replication and extract, transform and load capabilities for a variety of use cases including data migration and to support data warehouse style workloads that move data across PaaS, including Oracle Database as a service, Oracle Big Data Cloud Service, and non-Oracle DBaaS. Oracle delivers an industry first in its ability to replicate data in near real-time or in batches from on-premise to the cloud or from one cloud to another.

Using Oracle IoT Cloud Service, customers can deploy out-of-the-box IoT applications such as Asset Monitoring, Production Monitoring, Fleet Monitoring or Connected Worker. The IoT Cloud service delivers simplified connectivity through device virtualisation, streaming and predictive analytics. This combines in-motion data collected from devices, at-rest contextual data residing in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications and pre-existing integrations with business applications like Oracle Service Cloud, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s JD Edwards and Oracle’s PeopleSoft.

Oracle Big Data Cloud Services adds many new capabilities including support for Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and NoSQL technology. Oracle Big Data Cloud Service Compute Edition is a fully managed, elastic service, providing a platform for big data management and analytics.

Oracle Analytics Cloud lets enterprise empower anyone to ask any question of any data using any device, in the cloud, on-premise, or both. This includes Oracle Essbase Cloud Service, a new cloud solution that enables enterprises to transform unreliable spreadsheet-based processes into streamlined collaborative models in minutes.

Oracle Big Data SQL Cloud Service offers one fast SQL query on all big data stored in Hadoop, multiple NoSQL databases and Oracle Database.

Adding to rich visualisation and self-service discovery capabilities, Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service now interprets data to automatically create smart insights and make business more productive. It includes smart data connectors to more than 40 sources, self-service data preparation and packaged analytic applications for sales, marketing, human resources and finance.

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