Oracle progresses its aggressive cloud strategy

Madan Sheina, Lead Analyst, Software – Information Management

It hardly rains in Palm Springs, California. But there was a great deal of talk about clouds at Oracle’s recent CloudWorld analyst conference.

Oracle presented an update on the aggressive cloud strategy it unfolded at last September’s Oracle OpenWorld conference, where it made a score of announcements around its PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS offerings. Oracle has made significant incremental advances across both its public and private cloud portfolio offerings and clearly communicated its direction for the cloud – though many of the specifics around roadmaps were under non-disclosure agreement.

The company is committed to delivering a comprehensive suite of private and public cloud services integrated across SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. A key question, however, is how flexible those products and services are beyond the Oracle technology stack (the so-called red stack).

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