Oracle pushes into AWS territory with new IaaS services
Oracle set its sights on a bigger piece of the Cloud pie with new IaaS services that put it in more direct competition with Amazon Web Services.
Oracle set its sights on a bigger piece of the Cloud pie with new IaaS services that put it in more direct competition with Amazon Web Services.
If there was just one take-away from Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd at the company's OpenWorld show this week, it was that Oracle has now fully arrived at the cloud party and is ready to take a leading role. Whether that can happen, however, is entirely up to customers -- and their buy-in is far from guaranteed.
Oracle announced a new line of Sparc servers at OpenWorld on Monday based on a new processor called the M7, the first designed entirely in house by Oracle.