Oracle takes on Amazon launching its Elastic Compute Cloud

In the last couple of days Oracle has added Oracle Elatic Cloud to its last year's offering of Dedicated Compute. While Dedicated Compute is like living in an independent house, the Elastic Compute Cloud is like living in a condominium. Oracle Elastic Compute Cloud will operate in shared compute zone.

More here:
https://cloud.oracle.com/compute

If you like you can download a eBook (Oracle_Compute_Cloud_service.pdf) from the above link.

You start off with a number of cores and you can run a number of operating systems that include Oracle Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu or Windows. Scaling up or down is elastic.

Pricing details are TBD but the Oracle CTO has defined the price as "less than AWS Pricing", no mincing of words there.

However entering this late Oracle faces an upward challenge to the Gorilla in the ring, Amazon.

According to the link below the ranking is as it stands now;

AWS 30%
Azure Cloud 10%
IBM Cloud 7%
Google 5%
Salesforce 5%

Where does Oracle fit in this range?

HP was also in the race but recently shuttered its Helion Public Cloud.

Oracle Cloud

Dedicated Compute:

• Virtual compute environment provisioned on isolated compute resources
• Lifecycle Management - image management and orchestration to provision and automate lifecycle operations
•  Secure access
• Dynamic firewall - fine-grained control over network traffic
• Site-to-site VPN - connect on-premises resources to dedicated compute zones in Oracle Public Cloud

Compute
• Virtual compute environment provisioned on a multi-tenant compute resources
• Lifecycle Management - image management and orchestration to provision and automate lifecycle operations
• Secure access
• Dynamic firewall - fine-grained control over network traffic

Microsoft may buy SalesForce

The trading of SalesForce halted briefly () this morning to get this news time to get digested.

My most read post on sys-con.com (http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/1204167) was at the beginning when Microsoft challenged SalesForce. That was in the beginning of 2010. Microsoft was just beginning to feel around in the cloud. Much water has flowed.

Microsoft has grown leaps and bounds and at its recent Ignite event it is pushing out an unbelievable amount of stuff from its pipeline. With Windows 10 to debut in the near future it appears to be flexing its muscles.

Although both Amazon and Microsoft have made a lot of money from their cloud assets Amazon is perhaps still the nimble one, notwithstanding price wars. Microsoft has challenged the early starter Amazon.com (http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/3284432)in the Cloud arena, an arena that will expand enormously especially with the IOT taking off.

What better buy than SalesForce to make it the Cloud leader?

Hodentek believes that Microsoft will make a bid for SalesForce in the near future. Hodentek owns a miniscule number of Microsoft stocks.