Over 15 years ago, a very small, dedicated development team inside Oracle led by Roger Bamford (aka the Godfather of RAC) started thinking about grid computing with the genesis of Oracle Real Application Clusters. Back then it wasn't called grid or even Oracle Real Application Clusters - but the concepts were innovative, forward-thinking and set the basis for Oracle Grid computing.
Our developers didn't stop there - they continued with industry thought leadership and now with today's announcement, Oracle Unveils New Cloud Computing Products and Services, Oracle is extending this capacity with Cloud computing products and services for Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment.
Oracle customers can license Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager to run in a cloud computing environment. The first products will be available for Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment. Customers can also use their existing software licenses on Amazon EC2 with no additional license fees.
Oracle also introduced a secure Cloud-based backup solution. Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module, based on Oracle’s premier tape backup management software, Oracle Secure Backup. This product enables customers to use the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as their off-site database backup destination.
Will Oracle's Cloud-based computing products offer reliability and virtually unlimited capacity with no up-front capital expenditure? We think so - what about you?
