• Expanded Oracle Cloud Rains Down GPUs, Skylake Xeons

    November 21, 2017

    Oracle was late to the cloud game, but in recent years has moved aggressively to catch up. While still behind the top companies like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, Oracle is seeing gains in revenue and customers to its cloud environment, thanks in large part due to the hundreds of thousands of enterprise customers that use its various operating system, middleware, database, and application software.

    The cloud revenue jump at Oracle is pretty steep. In a conference call discussing the most recent quarterly financial numbers, Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz noted that cloud revenue for the quarter …

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  • Oracle Steps With Moore’s Law To Rev Exadata Database Machines

    April 14, 2016

    Absorbing a collection of new processing, memory, storage, and networking technologies in a fast fashion on a complex system is no easy task for any system maker or end user creating their own infrastructure, and it takes time even for a big company like Oracle to get all the pieces together and weld them together seamlessly. But the time it takes is getting smaller, and Oracle has absorbed a slew of new tech in its latest Exadata X6-2 platforms.

    The updated machines are available only weeks after Intel launched its new “Broadwell” Xeon E5 v4 processors, which have been shipping …

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  • Ellison Pits Oracle Cloud Against AWS, Azure

    October 26, 2015

    Oracle co-founder and now chief technology officer Larry Ellison may have come late to the term cloud computing, but the database giant that expanded into middleware and applications over his tenure was not – definitely not – late to understanding the transformational aspects of compute utilities hosting application software.

    The message that Ellison conveyed, with his wry humor, during his opening keynote at the OpenWorld extravaganza in San Francisco, was that contrary to what many have said, Oracle was not late to the cloud but rather started out a decade ago to transform itself and its code to be a …

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  • Engineered Systems Decline, Converged Systems Boom

    September 25, 2015

    After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. The integrated platforms are tuned to run specific databases and middleware, while integrated infrastructure is a bit less tuned up even though it does bring together servers, switches, and storage into a single system.

    Two years ago, sales of these two types of integrated systems were about the same and both were growing much faster than the independent server, storage, and …

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