Oracle has unveiled a number of new cloud computing products and services,
claiming that firms could now use Amazon's computing on demand systems to run
many of its popular applications and build new ones.
Oracle said yesterday that firms could now license its Database 11g, Fusion
Middleware and Enterprise Manager applications over Amazon's
Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2).
The company has also introduced a secure backup module for Amazon's
Simple
Storage Service (S3) which, combined with EC2, would let developers rapidly
build applications in an open way and at a lower cost and risk, according to
Oracle.
"Providing choice is the foundation of Oracle's strategy to enable customers
to become more productive and lower their IT costs - whether it's choice of
hardware, operating system, or on demand computing - and extending this to the
cloud environment is a natural evolution," said Robert Shimp, vice president at
Oracle's Global Technology Business Unit.
"We are pleased to partner with Amazon Web Services to provide our customers
with enterprise-class cloud solutions using familiar Oracle software on which
their businesses depend."
To make it easier for firms to deploy Oracle solutions onto EC2 the firm has
also released a set of free Amazon Machine Images, which it said would deploy
its applications on virtual machines "within minutes".
The move reflects an increased industry push to offer low-cost, high
computing functionality in a virtual environment.
IBM announced yesterday that it will offer
test
drives of Microsoft's new
High
Performance Computing Server 2008.
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