Oracle Cloud Platform

2022: Oracle disables cloud platform for Russian users

One of the users of the Reddit social network said that he had received a message from Oracle about the planned suspension of the use of cloud services from March 12, attaching a link to the Oracle website, where the message is available in English and Russian^[1]. An American vendor on its Cloud Platform service says it is obliged to temporarily close the possibility of using cloud services due to sanctions.

2018

Standalone cloud services with built-in AI

On June 22, 2018, Oracle announced the availability of next-generation Oracle Cloud Platform cloud services with built-in standalone capabilities. В их числе - Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise, Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud и Oracle APl Platform Cloud. With built-in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, these platform services automate operational tasks, enabling organizations to reduce costs, reduce risks, accelerate innovation, and leverage predictive analytics.

To continuously implement the innovations that a dynamic business environment requires, enterprises need robust, comprehensive, integrated cloud services to build applications and deliver the most demanding workloads. Oracle Cloud Services can intelligently automate key operational functions, including configuration, patching, backup, and upgrade, enabling organizations to free up time by allowing them to focus on strategic business operations. This provides maximum performance, high availability, and critical security.

For our customers, integrating AI and machine learning capabilities across our cloud portfolio is of great value. Customers support our vision of a standalone enterprise. With standalone Oracle platform services, organizations can benefit from AI, such as reducing costs, accelerating innovation, and transforming how they do business.

In 2017, Oracle presented its vision of an autonomous enterprise, announcing an autonomous database. Then the company announced that it would expand autonomous capabilities to the entire portfolio of PaaS services. In keeping with this promise, Oracle recently provided a number of stand-alone platform services, including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, and Oracle Visual Builder. After announcing the availability of the next set of standalone services, Oracle continues to implement plans. In 2018, the corporation plans to provide even more autonomous capabilities focused on blockchain, security and IT management, as well as supporting additional database workloads, including OLTP and NoSQL.

Add standalone PaaS services

On March 2, 2018, Oracle introduced standalone PaaS services Oracle Cloud Platform Autonomous Services in addition to Oracle Autonomous Database.

The autonomy features are integrated into the entire cloudy Oracle Cloud Platform. The standalone Oracle Autonomous Database uses advanced artificial intelligence technologies machine learning to eliminate routine human labor, eliminate human errors and manually configure, provides unprecedented availability, high performance and security at a much lower cost. Numerous standalone database services for a specific type of workload, including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service for analytics, Oracle Autonomous Database OLTP for transactional and mixed workloads, and Oracle Autonomous NoSQL Database for fast and large read and write operations, will be available in 2018.

In addition to Oracle Autonomous Database services, Oracle Cloud Platform's standalone capabilities for application development, mobile devices and bots, integration, analytics, security and IT management are scheduled for release in the first half of calendar year 2018. All Oracle Cloud Platform services take advantage of common battery life, including:

• Self-service to reduce costs and improve productivity-No human involvement in provisioning/freeing resources, information security, monitoring, backup, recovery, and troubleshooting. Provides automatic self-updating and patching during operation. Instantly increases or reduces the amount of computing or non-disruptive storage you use.
• Self-defense to reduce risk - Protects against external attacks and malicious actions by users within the organization. Automatically applies security updates right at work to protect against cyber attacks and automatically encrypts all data.
• Self-healing for high availability - Provides automatic protection against all planned and unplanned outages - reaching 99,995% availability, reducing downtime to less than 2.5 minutes per month, including scheduled maintenance.

Examples of stand-alone features added to various functional areas throughout Oracle Cloud Platform include:

Application Development

• Automatic artifact detection, dependency management, and policy-based dependency updates improve code quality and developer productivity
• Automatic identification and resolution of security issues throughout the continuous integration and implementation cycle (CI/CD) significantly reduces security risks
• Automated code generation with single button deployment allows you to quickly create applications even for business users

Mobility and chat bots

• Self-learning chat bots monitor interaction patterns and preferences to automate end-user activities that are frequent, freeing up time for performance-enhanced tasks
• Intelligent bots, without human supervision, based on machine learning algorithms are continuously trained in dialogues with users and thereby can conduct a conversation with context in mind
• Automatically cache API calls to the nearest data center in real time to minimize response latency based on end-user location

Application and data integration

• Self-defined integration automates business processes in various SaaS applications and applications deployed in the customer's own data center.
• Self-defined data streams with automated "data lakes" and automatic generation of a data pipeline for data collection (streaming and batch processing).

Analytics

• Automatically find and prepare data
• Automatic analysis of key results along with visualization and descriptive data provide real-time analytics

Security and Management

Machine-learning user and entity behavior analytics to automatically isolate and eliminate suspicious and malicious users Proactive control to intercept data breaches in structured and unstructured datastores. A unified repository of system log data, performance, user experience, and settings using artificial intelligence and machine learning eliminates the need to configure/manage performance and security metadata, such as thresholds, server topology, and deviations in configuration parameters. Oracle also introduced a single digital assistant to Oracle Digital Assistant for user interaction in Oracle's SaaS and PaaS services, including analytics. Oracle Digital Assistant provides a centralized connection point for interacting with CRM, ERP, HCM, user applications, and business intelligence data. It uses artificial intelligence to compare data and automate user behavior. Oracle Digital Assistant features include:

Security and Management

• Integration with speech recognition devices such as Amazon Echo (Alexa), Apple Siri, Google Home and Speech, Harman Kardon (Cortana) and Microsoft Cortana
• Deep learning algorithms based on neural networks to process messages from voice recognition devices to understand incoming user commands and take further action
• Intelligent direction to bot with appropriate knowledge base for processing incoming user commands
• Deep understanding of user behavior, context, preferences and established practices, used by Oracle Digital Assistant, for self-training to recommend and automate all datasets for the benefit of the user

"The successful corporate IT department of tomorrow characterizes complete, comprehensive automation. And we at Oracle are doing everything to make it a reality. We have integrated autonomous capabilities into the very structure of our cloud to help Oracle customers secure their systems, accelerate innovation, and gain every possible competitive advantage by making more informed real-time decisions. "

"PaaS services have become a critical component of the cloud journey. They promote business flexibility and enterprise innovation. With standalone PaaS services based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, Oracle provides advanced enterprises looking for ways to accelerate innovation, increase productivity, reduce costs, and influence the human factor. Oracle Cloud Platform standalone services enable enterprises to scale, back up, update, diagnose, fix, and protect enterprise PaaS cloud services. "

2017

Adding Big Data Cloud Services

On October 12, 2017, Oracle announced the expansion of the Oracle Big Data Platform Cloud service list. Big data projects are difficult to implement because of their complexity, lack of skills and knowledge to coordinate all phases of the project. To help customers solve these problems and simplify management of the entire big data lifecycle, Oracle has offered big data services integrated into Oracle Cloud Platform.

These cloud services provide customers with the critical capabilities they need for big data projects, simplify and accelerate data-driven business results, and facilitate the use of artificial intelligence in applications and services^[2].

Oracle introduced Oracle Analytics Cloud, Data Lake Edition, which unleashes the potential of scalable big data analytics in Oracle Big Data Cloud using Apache Spark. With Oracle Analytics Cloud, Data Lake, any analyst can now explore all the data in the data lake, combine it with their own, corporate or external sources to discover the facts, quickly improve to enrich this data and save it by creating Data flow, which is executed on a scalable platform. The built-in fast analytics layer with Oracle Essbase and Oracle Database Cloud stores the resulting data, providing fast interactive visualization and another level of data access. The platform further extends analytics by providing machine learning-based recommendations for data enrichment and visualization.

Oracle Analytics Cloud, Data Lake Edition provides automatic creation of machine learning models that can be used as built-in models for intelligent data enrichment when creating and executing Data Flow. In addition, analysts can use hundreds of Oracle Advanced Analytics and Spark features to further enrich their data and Data Flow.

Cloudy Oracle Analytics Cloud services are integrated with Oracle Integration Cloud and Oracle Big Data Cloud.

Oracle has built three machine learning and analytics tools into Oracle Big Data Cloud that minimize data movement and accelerate results. Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop accelerates algorithms available in the SparkMLlib library up to 32 times. GPU support for Apache Spark and TensorFlow further accelerates algorithms for deep analytics and machine learning. Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph enables customers to identify dependencies and relationships in customer, organization, and asset data, and enrich multi-structure data with geolocation information.

Oracle Big Data Cloud includes Oracle Big Data Connectors to quickly and easily move data between Oracle Database and data lakes. In addition, Oracle Event Hub Cloud provides a fully automated way to store streaming data in Oracle Storage Cloud and integrates with the Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud, helping you create data lakes in the cloud easier and cheaper than ever before.

Oracle announced two services: Oracle Graph Cloud Service - a fully managed, scalable graphics database and an analytical engine with integrated data development and visualization tools. Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service is the only fully managed NoSQL database that enables customers to store their data in the Oracle cloud or in their own data center.

Oracle announced the release of Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud Service, which provides unified, comprehensive enterprise-class tools for data integration and ETL. The service has push-down functions for streaming and batch loading data from all data sources and applications, not only Oracle.

A wide range of data cleansing, data cataloging, and metadata management solutions are supported to ensure proper data utilization and compliance.

Oracle Stream Analytics is enhanced to work directly with Oracle Cloud Platform. Oracle Stream Analytics is based on key big data technologies such as Apache Kafka and Apache Spark, and is integrated with Oracle Big Data Cloud and Oracle Event Hub Cloud.

Oracle Cloud Platform Extensions

On January 25, 2017, Oracle introduced Oracle Cloud Platform extensions that increase its appeal to customers moving critical business applications to the cloud.

Oracle announced two options:

• Availability of Oracle Database Cloud Service running on a clean (bare metal) physical server
• Cloud Services Capabilities for Computing, Load Balancing, and Storage^[3]

Both technologies are implemented on the same IaaS platform.

Oracle Cloud Platform delivers differentiated database performance at every level of scalability and provides deeply integrated IaaS capabilities for organizations of all sizes, making it easier for them to develop, test, and deploy mission-critical business applications in the cloud.

author = Thomas Kurian, Oracle President of Product Development This investment in Oracle Cloud Platform provides an ideal environment for developing, testing, and scaling applications that use Oracle Database or third-party databases. We offer customers the most comprehensive approach to migrating to the cloud and accelerating the implementation of their business strategies. Oracle provides the richest and most diverse selection of cloud-based relational DBMS services that are fully compatible with applications deployed directly to the customer's enterprise. This makes it much easier for customers to move their enterprise workloads to the cloud.

2015

Oracle introduced competitors Amazon Web Services

On June 22, 2015, Oracle announced new enterprise cloud products, stating that they are designed to compete directly with Amazon solutions.

Oracle Cloud Platform includes 24 cloud services that enable developers, IT professionals, business users, and analysts to create, expand, and integrate cloud applications with other products. Among the announced innovations:

• Database Cloud–Exadata
• Archive Storage Cloud
• Big Data Cloud
• Big Data SQL Cloud
• Integration Cloud
• Mobile Cloud
• Process Cloud

Oracle announced new enterprise cloud products, saying they are designed to compete directly with Amazon solutions

"We

can now declare that cloud services are complete. After today's announcement, you will be able to transfer all your applications from the data center to the Oracle cloud, "said Larry Ellison, founder and chairman of the board of directors of the American corporation.

According to him, Oracle is ready for price competition with Amazon, since Oracle Cloud Platform is a cheaper alternative to Amazon Web Services. As an example, Ellison cited the service for storing archived copies of Amazon Glacier: a similar Oracle Archive Storage Cloud product costs 10 times cheaper.

"Oracle is the only company on the planet that can provide a complete integrated set of standardized services for each level of the cloud ecosystem," Larry Ellison said.

According to Reuters, Oracle's cloud business is fast-growing, but its volume is less than that of competitors. According to the results of fiscal year 2015, which ended on May 31, 2015, Oracle earned about $2.3 billion on cloud products, which is a third more than a year earlier. Amazon and Microsoft estimate similar revenue for the year at about $6.3 billion for each of these companies.^[4]

Replenishment of the platform

On November 6, 2015, Oracle announced the release of cloud solutions in addition to the Oracle developer line.

Among the declared products are services, toolkits and development platforms software on JavaScript and. Java In this way Oracle , continues to support professional developers on and, Java JavaScript business users, providing the global multilingual programming ecosystem (polyglot software development) with additional choices and opportunities to accelerate the development, delivery and deployment of applications.

Oracle PaaS Components (2015)

The platform included:

• Oracle Application Container Cloud - PaaS-technology with support. Docker
• Oracle Developer Cloud Service - PaaS development solution, expanded to support the smooth operation of DevOps groups.
• Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit - a set of libraries for the client part of the JavaScript.
• Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service - Provides business users with a development environment for self-creating and publishing web applications. Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service helps you create custom data objects and provides easy access to services. Oracle SaaS
• Oracle Mobile Application Accelerator is a feature of Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, it allows business analysts to create "resident" mobile applications (running on mobile devices) using intuitive, browser-based development tools, using services optimized for mobile access provided by Oracle Mobile Cloud Service.

2014

Oracle Cloud Platform Announcement

On April 9, 2014, Oracle announced Cloud Platform as a means of consolidating existing applications, developing and deploying new applications.

Oracle Cloud Platform on the Java platform helps consolidate applications and integrate them, both in terms of data management and security.

Functionality DBMS based on Oracle Database and, Oracle Exadata Database Machine connecting technologies based on and. Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Optimized appliances, such as Exata and Exalogic, provide the highest levels of performance and efficiency for mixed workloads. On-demand database service from Oracle's private cloud - Oracle Database-as-a-Service (DbaaS), can be provided as a dedicated database instance or a full development platform, as implemented in Oracle Database Cloud Services.

The cloud solution provides fast provisioning, minute availability, a variety of management options, and ease of use for multi-click services in a virtual environment or development platform.

Oracle Database Backup Announcement

On April 21, 2014, Oracle announced the promotion of the new Database Backup service, which, according to the corporation, will help quickly implement, master and use hybrid cloud solutions to seamlessly and securely combine public clouds with enterprise and private clouds.

The service enables customers to easily move mission-critical business applications and data between the enterprise environment and the cloud.

Oracle Database Backup is a complement to Oracle Cloud Platform as a Service's PaaS portfolio, with nothing more than an easy-to-use, scalable, affordable cloud-based Oracle Database backup solution. Closely integrated with Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN), Database Backup leverages familiar RMAN features and commands to securely perform backup and recovery operations between enterprise Oracle Database and Oracle Cloud.

The service performs parallel backup operations and compresses the backup data to achieve high performance, encrypts the data on the client side to ensure end-to-end data protection.

New Oracle Cloud Platform Services

On October 1, 2014, Oracle announced six new Oracle Cloud Platform services. According to the company, they will help customers and partners create and deploy new applications, expand and personalize vendor Solution SaaS, migrate existing applications deployed in the enterprise (on premises) to Oracle Cloud.

The new services, according to vendor representatives, will complement the Oracle Cloud Platform offering with the capabilities of big data analytics, integration, process management, Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) and Node.js for JavaScript server components.

Oracle Cloud Platform Services

• Oracle Big Data Cloud - Enables customers to analyze and process large amounts of data using Hadoop tools on a secure, elastic, manageable, and easy-to-use infrastructure platform that is fully integrated with other Oracle Cloud services.

• Oracle Mobile Cloud - Helps you quickly market enterprise-class mobile applications that are managed from the cloud.

• Oracle Integration Cloud - Provides rapid design, deployment, monitoring, and management tools to integrate applications in the cloud, as well as cloud applications with enterprise deployments using an advanced, intuitive browser-based interface.

• Oracle Process Cloud - Helps business users design, deploy, monitor, and optimize business processes to improve efficiency, dynamics, and performance.

• Oracle Node.js Cloud - For rapid application deployment JavaScript with any required libraries on a dynamically scalable Oracle Cloud infrastructure with high availability, complemented by cloud-based tools for continuous application integration and management.

• Oracle Java SE Cloud - Help customers quickly deploy Java SE 7 or 8 applications along with any required libraries or environments on a dynamically scalable Oracle Cloud high-availability infrastructure, complemented by cloud-based tools for continuous application integration and management.

As of October 1, 2014, Oracle Cloud Platform announced new services:

• Oracle Database Cloud - Provides complete control over a dedicated DBMS instance and supports any business application on Oracle Database, offering users flexibility and freedom to choose the level of managed services provided by Oracle.

• Oracle Database Backup Cloud - Helps you back up enterprise-deployed databases to Oracle Cloud with encryption, compression, and triple mirroring.

• Oracle Java Cloud - Offers Oracle WebLogic Server clusters for deploying Java applications and complete administrative control of the service, with automated backup, recovery, patch package deployment, and high availability.

• Oracle Messaging Cloud - Creates an infrastructure for reliable communication between software components.

• Oracle Developer Cloud is a development platform for development teams with application lifecycle management and teamwork.

• Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud - Helps users create visual, interactive signage for their web environment and mobile devices.

• Oracle Documents Cloud - Provides a flexible and secure file-sharing and collaboration solution for mobile devices and desktops, integrating with enterprise and cloud applications.

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