Oracle Cloud Computing (part1)

Cloud computing is a significant advancement in the delivery of information technology and services.

By providing on demand access to a shared pool of computing resources in a self-service, dynamically

scaled and metered manner, cloud computing offers compelling advantages in speed, agility and

efficiency. Today, cloud computing is 

at an early stage in its lifecycle, but it is also the evolution and

convergence of several trends that have been driving enterprise data centers and service providers over

the last several years.

Cloud computing builds off a foundation of technologies such as grid computing, which includes

clustering, server virtualization and dynamic provisioning, as well as SOA shared services and large-

scale management automation. For the better part of a decade, Oracle has been the leader in these

areas with thousands of customer successes and high level of investment. Today, Oracle offers the

industry’s most complete, open and integrated products and services to enable public, private and

hybrid clouds.

Oracle aims to make cloud computing fully enterprise-grade and supports both public and private

cloud computing to give customers choice. Oracle offers technology that enables organizations to

build private clouds, leverage public clouds and provide cloud services to others. Oracle also offers a

broad set of horizontal and industry applications that run in a shared services private cloud model as

well as a public Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud model.

This white paper provides an overview of Oracle’s cloud computing strategy and how Oracle helps

customers and partners plan their evolution and adoption of a cloud computing model.