Intel’s preliminary presentation gave us a lot of information on the optimization of software and silicon and the trend to use a hybrid approach to cloud. (public and private). Larry Ellison, now the Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, came onto the stage.
- 2014 has been an important year. Oracle gained a lot of momentum in their cloud business
- Oracle wants to deliver at all three layers of the cloud. IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Can’t just specialize in one of the three like Amazon or Salesforce
- SaaS
- We are a player here. we have more SaaS applications than anyone
- Built and bought a variety of them in 2014
- examples: marketing, sales, e-commerce, social campaigns, HCM, talent management, ERP, SCM, procurement, etc
- Brand new this year with Blue Kayak acquisition. Data as a Service
- Enterprise Performance Management is new
- Total is 84 SaaS products. 29 are new
- The sales cloud added 14 new products. Larry specifically mentioned salesforce.com multiple times. Highlighted value add within salesforce management.
- Service cloud have 113 products with 14 new.
- Field service is a new offering this year.
- Configure price Quote: the leader
- Social Campaigns, Listening, Data as a servecie. 49 products, 36 of them are new
- Larry puts social media and data as a service
- Human Capital Management.84 products, 16 new as SaaS. This is the second wave of apps to the cloud. CX was the first.
- Includes social tools in this area. Larry believes this is a differentiator for HCM
- ERP. 49 SaaS products, 14 are new
- Third wave of apps to the cloud
- Oracle is the first company that’s selling mid-market and high end ERP in the cloud
- Supply Chain Management, 32 SaaS product 20 new\
- 304 SaaS customers with a little over a year at it.
- EPM. In the last 6 months moved all Hyperion to the cloud and gave it more capability
- it runs faster, It’s cheaper, etc.
- In six months they got 150 customers and launched 40
- Industry specific: 47 products. 32 new
- Includes telcom, healthcare, finacial services, education, hotels, etc.
- In the last 12 months, Oracle acquired 2,181 new customer in 2014
- PaaS
- Made a major upgrade to the Oracle Platform. The upgrade allows you to move any database to the cloud. It can move the database application as well with a second push of a button.
- New and much upgraded platform: Oracle Cloud Platform
- Foundation is the Oracle Database. it’s a cloud service
- On top is the weblogic java cloud service
- then comes social, mobile, analytics, and identity as key services
- Starts as multi-tenanct
- all applications are mobile. Mobility is part of the platform
- Security is on the way to being job one at Oracle.
- The SaaS apps are built on the Cloud Platform. they use these services
- Key differentiator: Oracle allows you to extend CX, HCM, and ERP on the oracle Cloud platform. You have more agility.
- More digs on salesforce. “Salesforce developers on Oracle’s platform”
- 30+ years ago Oracle made a promise to customers to allow upward compatibility
- this promise drives Oracles need to support SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
- The major upgrade to the platform allows you to move any database to the cloud by pushing a button.
- It moves and gets modernized
- Includes any java application to be moved as well
- Can move other applications to IaaS as well. Doesn’t have to be a Java app.
- Cloud Platform Service (and Java WebLogic Platform service)
- In 2012 launched schema as a service
- Now have an Instance as a service
- capacity on demand
- storage on demand
- version 11g and 12c
- Launches in September 2014
- Can move the instance back to on premise
- Comes ready with high availability and extreme performance
- Includes the Hadoop and NoSQL support.
- IaaS
- Innovating with three things. 1. Secure the data 2. Reliability 3. Lowest cost
- No IaaS means you couldn’t move non-java apps to the cloud
- Compute cloud
- elastic compute with HA
- Storage cloud
- OpenStack Swift support
- api’s galore
- Commodity pricing. Oracle will price aggressively. Same as Amazon, Microsoft etc.
- Have 19 data centers for cloud
- 30,000 computers
- 400 petabytes
- 62 million users per day
- 23 billion transactions per day
- Innovation
- Engineered systems gives you better performance, etc. Engineer the software and the hardware at the same time gives you this.
- Oracle today
- Many major SaaS applications run on Oracle
- SAP
- Salesforce
- NetSuite
- Oralce
- 19 of 20 run on the Oracle Database and Java
- “We are just getting started”
- Many major SaaS applications run on Oracle
- Oracle tomorrow
- Database is our biggest software business. Database will be Oracles biggest cloud business
- What
- compressions
- automatically encrypt data
- big in memory processing
- Multi-tenant
- easily add mobile, social and analytics features
- More automation like on demand use of compute and storage, backup, patching/upgrade, provision data guard, RAC, and monitoring
- New Product: Oracle recovery appliance
- Better approach to recovering the db. A db is not just a collection of files.
- Zero data loss recovery appliance takes care of it
- can attach thousands of db’s to protect all of them in one data center
- Quote, “this is a no brainer product”
- Exalytics 4 is a major upgrade
- Announcing Oracle FS1: Flash storage San product
- It’s really fast. it’s much faster than EMC’s extreme IO
- M7 Microprocessor
- software in silicon
- Working with Intel and doing innovation in their own Silicon
- launches next year
- puts performance and security in the processor
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