{"id":9977,"date":"2014-01-13T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jan\/13\/verizon-teams-oracle-offers-middleware-beta-cloud\/"},"modified":"2014-01-13T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T00:31:16","slug":"verizon-teams-up-with-oracle-offers-middleware-for-beta-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/verizon-teams-up-with-oracle-offers-middleware-for-beta-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon teams up with Oracle, offers middleware for beta cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants Verizon and Oracle have announced a partnership whereby customers can use Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware on Verizon&rsquo;s cloud.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This deal represents two market leaders coming together to create a compelling cloud offering that will help enterprises succeed in a highly competitive market environment,&rdquo; Oracle president Mark Hurd trumpeted in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &ldquo;Combining Verizon&rsquo;s unique enterprise experience and capabilities with Oracle&rsquo;s best in class cloud products will provide customers another easy and cost-effective choice for embracing the cloud.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Big words, yes, but what are the facts behind it? It&rsquo;s worth noting that Verizon Cloud is currently in beta, with the service announced only in October. There&rsquo;s also no information on when Verizon&rsquo;s solution will hit full release, but with the latest announcement covering software as a service via Oracle, it&rsquo;s certainly an interesting proposition.<\/p>\n<p>More than anything, this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech giants Verizon and Oracle have announced a partnership whereby customers can use Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware on Verizon&rsquo;s cloud.<br \/>\n&ldquo;This deal represents two market leaders coming together to create a compelling cloud off&#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-9977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977","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=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}