8 years ago050Larry Ellison continued his assault on Amazon during his second keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld on Tuesday.
"Amazon Web Services are simply not optimized for the Oracle Database. I'll go further than that: Amazon Web Services aren't optimized for their own databases either, as you will see," he said, while displaying a set of...
8 years ago051Oracle has a lot of catching up to do in the cloud.
If Barnes & Noble said it was going to undercut Amazon on book sales, would you believe them?
The same may go for Oracle and cloud services. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Sept. 20 that his company’s new database-as-a-service is faster and cheaper than Amazon Web Services,...
8 years ago058For enterprise customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that have wanted to migrate their databases over to the AWS cloud, the wait is finally over. The service, which was first announced in preview in October at the Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, has been made generally available to all AWS customers.
The AWS Database Migration...
8 years ago060Telecos are still trying to figure out what to do with the cloud
This week as the mobile world has its eyes on Barcelona, Ericsson – a major supplier of equipment for telecommunication providers – has announced a broad-ranging, and slightly vague, partnership with Amazon Web Services.
The pact announced at Mobile World Congress...
8 years ago051All is fair in love, war and technology marketing. In a fantastic example of ignoring the bleedingly obvious, Oracle wants to rewrite the playing field.
Over at Fortune, Barb Darrow detailed a conversation the magazine had with Oracle's vice president of cloud development, Peter Magnusson. The upshot of the conversation was that, in...
8 years ago044Microsoft has come a long way in embracing the cloud, perhaps because it had to.
There is the IaaS/PaaS/STaaS cloud, now dominated by Amazon Web Services both by monetary momentum and a long list of competitors and AWS-compatible ecosystems. Varying organizations also offer a long and interesting list of competitive services, a la...