{"id":9323,"date":"2013-10-31T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/oct\/31\/oracle-accelerates-database-and-cloud-strategy\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T16:00:00","slug":"oracle-accelerates-database-and-cloud-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/oracle-accelerates-database-and-cloud-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle accelerates database and cloud strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Tim Jennings, Chief Analyst &amp; Research Fellow, Enterprise IT<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oracle&rsquo;s September 2013 customer event was notable for a series of announcements designed to help the company&rsquo;s customers improve the speed and agility of their information systems. The flagship news revolved around Oracle&rsquo;s core competence of database technology, with forthcoming releases of an in-memory option for Oracle Database 12c that promises to significantly speed up analytic queries, and of an enterprise-grade Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering, part of the Oracle Public Cloud. The latter is reaching a new level of maturity, assisted by the acquisition earlier in 2013 of cloud infrastructure specialist Nimbula.<\/p>\n<p>One of the dominant themes of the conference was machine-to-machine (M2M) technology and the Internet of Things (IoT), and here Oracle is positioning its Java technology as an end-to-end platform for solution development. It also announced an upcoming new version of its Java as a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Jennings, Chief Analyst &amp; Research Fellow, Enterprise IT<br \/>\nOracle&rsquo;s September 2013 customer event was notable for a series of announcements designed to help the company&rsquo;s customers improve the speed and agility of their information sy&#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-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323","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=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}