{"id":18427,"date":"2015-10-29T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=237942"},"modified":"2015-10-29T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:33:03","slug":"equinix-creates-direct-link-to-oracle-cloud-services-via-cloud-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/equinix-creates-direct-link-to-oracle-cloud-services-via-cloud-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinix creates direct link to Oracle Cloud Services via Cloud Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/06\/Cloud-Puzzle-Pieces.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-226281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/06\/Cloud-Puzzle-Pieces-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>Data centre operator Equinix has agreed to give its Cloud Exchange users direct access to Oracle Cloud Service, the software vendor\u2019s public platform for infrastructure services.<\/p>\n<p>Equinix claims that Oracle users will get quicker response times and better performance as data is accelerated through its Cloud Exchanges in its Amsterdam, Chicago, London, Singapore, Sydney and Washington data centres.<\/p>\n<p>It should also provide a better framework to support the hybrid cloud systems that most enterprises run, as well as solid support for migrations to the cloud, according to Oracle. \u201cIt gives Oracle\u2019s enterprise customers the flexibility to pick the network services best suited to their diverse workloads,\u201d said Thomas Kurian, Oracle\u2019s president of product development.<\/p>\n<p>The Oracle Cloud aims to simplify the building of new applications and migration of existing on-premises applications to the cloud. The Oracle Cloud Platform offers customers and partners the same platform as a service (PaaS) foundation upon which Oracle runs its own software as a service (SaaS) offerings. According to Oracle 19 of the world\u2019s top 20 SaaS providers now use its Cloud service. In October it announced that Oracle Cloud Services it launched 24 additional PaaS and IaaS services.<\/p>\n<p>Oracle\u2019s 400,000 customers include all 100 of the Fortune 100 companies and it has sold 1,000 ERP systems running in the cloud. By offering direct access on Equinix Cloud Exchange, Oracle said it can create much faster connections between the on-premise systems many companies still use and the Oracle public cloud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe addition of Oracle Cloud to Equinix Cloud Exchange helps our customers execute on their business strategies,\u201d said Equinix CEO Steve Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud is the fastest growing part of Oracle\u2019s business. It supports 62 million users and 23 billion transactions each day. Oracle Cloud runs on 30,000 devices and 400 petabytes of storage in 19 data centres around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data centre operator Equinix has agreed to give its Cloud Exchange users direct access to Oracle Cloud Service, the software vendor&rsquo;s public platform for infrastructure services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3609,1992,618,1976,1018],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-exchange","category-datacentre","category-equinix","category-news-analysis","category-oracle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18431,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18427\/revisions\/18431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}