Oracle Launches 10 New Cloud Services At OpenWorld

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2013

Oracle Corporation has announced several new products and services at their OpenWorld conference.

While Larry Ellison (Oracle CEO) was watching America’s Cup, a popular sailing competition sponsored by Oracle, the company announced that they added 10 cloud services to their portfolio.

These new services include a computing cloud, object storage cloud, Java cloud, database cloud, business intelligence cloud, mobile cloud, documents cloud, database backup cloud, billing cloud, revenue management cloud, and cloud marketplace.

Oracle is stepping up their competition with companies like Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services through the new services, according to VentureBeat.  The compute cloud and object storage cloud can be compared to Amazon Services.

Oracle’s cloud marketplace looks similar to the Salesforce App Exchange. However, Oracle has partnered with their competition for cloud products.  Oracle partnered with Microsoft and Salesforce.com (release) back in June.  Oracle software can be installed on Windows Server Hyper-V and Windows Azure.  Salesforce.com also agreed to standardize on the Oracle Linux operating system.

The Oracle Cloud supports 9 million users and 19 billion transactions per day.  And their cloud runs on 7,000 servers and they have 13 data centers across the world.