Larry Ellison Says 'Amazon's Lead is Over' As Oracle Unveils New Cloud Infrastructure (venturebeat.com)

Oracle has unveiled its second generation of cloud infrastructure for third-party developers to run their applications in Oracle data centers. What is interesting about the announcement is that Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison claiming that "Amazon's lead is over. Amazon's going to have serious competition going forward." From a VentureBeat report: One particular instance, or virtual-machine (VM) type, that Oracle is making available in this second-generation offering -- the Dense IO Shape -- offers 28.8TB, 512GB, and 36 cores, at a price of $5.40 per hour. This product offers more than 10 times the input-output capacity of Amazon Web Services (AWS), specifically the i2.8xlarge instance, said Ellison. Currently, AWS leads the cloud infrastructure market, with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM trailing behind. Oracle's public cloud was not included in the most recent version of Gartner's highly regarded cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) Magic Quadrant, which was released last month. "Oracle also does not have enough market share to qualify for inclusion," the authors of the report wrote.

Comments

Re:Evil Beard

[Anne Thwacks]

I mean I just expect him to be terrorizing the world from a giant mechanical spider to which our weapons are useless

expect? I would link to the videos but the NDA prevents it.

Re:Trusting oracle with all your infrastructure

[arth1]

Well, it does come with 28.8TB, which should be enough for a couple of weeks of Oracle logs.

Re: That'll to be one to avoid PRICE HIKES on then

[jeff4747]

Wow. They're really loosening their licensing terms.