{"id":2051,"date":"2012-06-08T15:54:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jun\/08\/oracle-cloud-finally-brought-out-criticism-fair\/"},"modified":"2012-06-08T15:54:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:54:16","slug":"oracle-cloud-is-finally-brought-out-but-is-the-criticism-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/oracle-cloud-is-finally-brought-out-but-is-the-criticism-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Cloud is finally brought out but is the criticism fair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been on the warpath for most of this week after announcing the data giant&rsquo;s move to the cloud, in what was modestly described in the press releases as &ldquo;the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Oracle Cloud had according to Ellison been seven years in the making, which perhaps explains its comprehensive nature, but the credentials sound pretty good at face value.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS), Oracle Cloud&rsquo;s main strength is what they call &ldquo;functionally rich, integrated, secure, enterprise cloud services&rdquo; &ndash; in other words, a fully-fledged cloud system which incorporates 100 self-service applications and platform services.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement also explained the cloud&rsquo;s various facets, such as allowing users to schedule their own upgrades as and when, and claiming to be the only cloud which avoided business process fragmentation.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were impressive too &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been on the warpath for most of this week after announcing the data giant&rsquo;s move to the cloud, in what was modestly described in the press releases as &ldquo;the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth&rdquo;.<br \/>\nOr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}