INTELLIGENT CLOUD

Gartner defines strategic cloud platform services as standardised , automated , public cloud offerings integrating infrastructure services , example computing , network and storage , platform services , example managed application and data services and transformation services , programs , resources that help customers adopt cloudoriented IT delivery models .

“ We believe this recognition further demonstrates Oracle ’ s growth in this key category and places OCI among the four global hyperscale cloud providers in the Leaders Quadrant ,” said Clay Magouyrk , Executive Vice President , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure .

Oracle delivers IaaS , PaaS , as well as SaaS services . This enables Oracle to give customers more choice in how and where they run their applications , including across clouds or in a distributed system . This flexibility makes it easier for organisations to meet data sovereignty and other regulatory requirements .

Oracle in Magic Quadrant

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure , supports all types of x86-based IT workloads through a combination of bare metal , IaaS and PaaS

Clay Magouyrk , Executive Vice President , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

services . Oracle differentiates itself from other providers through its enhanced support for Oracle Applications , aggressive IaaS pricing , multicloud services , and wide variety of distributed and sovereign cloud options .

Traditionally , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has leveraged Oracle ’ s leadership in the database and ERP markets to grow its market share through existing Oracle customers . However , in the last two years , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has begun to attract more new customers of its own . Oracle recently announced a partnership with Cohere to advance its generative AI strategy .

Strengths

Distributed and sovereign cloud Oracle is out-innovating the market in the areas of distributed cloud and sovereign cloud computing . Oracle can deploy standard commercial regions , private regions in customer datacentres , sovereign cloud regions , disconnected regions and locally partneroperated regions . This range of options is valuable to customers under stringent regulatory and data privacy requirements .

Multicloud integration Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers highperformance interconnection with Microsoft Azure in selected regions , and has recently introduced Oracle-managed database services in AWS and Azure . These options , together with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ’ s multicloud application and data integration tools , make it easier for many customers to establish Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a second cloud adjacent to their existing primary provider .

Velocity of new features Oracle continues an impressive year-overyear pace of feature introductions that has brought it into direct comparison with the market leaders in terms of hyperscale cloud capabilities . Oracle is demonstrating strength in DBMS , both analytics and operational , data integration , and middleware and integration platform as a service , iPaaS services , all key components needed by cloud customers for modernisation and transformation . •

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