From PC World: Larry Ellison has a message for Amazon Web Services: Oracle is going to give Amazon a run for its money in the cloud market.
"Amazon's lead is over," he said during his keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. "Amazon's going to have serious competition going forward."
To that end, the company he co-founded is launching a set of new cloud datacenters that are aimed at providing more powerful compute instances to help it compete against the likes of AWS, Azure and other cloud players. The generation 2 datacenters will be capable of bringing a variety of performance improvements to customers who want to run high-performance workloads in the cloud.
The infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering that Ellison announced on stage is aimed at giving companies low-cost access to incredibly powerful hardware in the cloud. It's an attempt to draw businesses towards Oracle's services as they start migrating applications to take advantage of the performance and low pricing available as a result of not operating their own datacenters.
Ellison showed off a new Oracle Dense Cloud IO bare metal cloud server offering that will provide developers with 36 CPU cores, 512GB of D-RAM, and 28.8TB of SSD storage. That's a ton of compute capacity, all aimed at high-performance enterprise workloads. It's more power than Amazon offers with one of its most powerful instance, the i2.8xlarge. All of that comes at a cost of US$5.40 an hour, which is cheaper than what Amazon charges.
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