At Oracle OpenWorld 2008, in San Francisco, yesterday, Oracle announced customers can license its Database 11g Fusion Middleware and Enterprise Manager products to run in a cloud computing environment.
The company says these products will be available for Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment. "In addition, customers can use their existing software licences on Amazon EC2, and pay no extra licence fees."
Robert Shimp, VP of the Oracle Global Technology Business Unit, says providing choice is the foundation of Oracle's strategy to enable customers to become more productive and lower their IT costs, and extending this to the cloud environment is a natural evolution.
"We are pleased to partner with Amazon Web Services to provide our customers enterprise-class cloud solutions, using familiar Oracle software on which their businesses depend."
Aimed at helping customers deploy its solutions on Amazon EC2 quickly and efficiently, Oracle is releasing a set of free Amazon Machine Images. "By using these, new virtual machines can be provisioned with Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Linux, fully configured and ready to use within minutes."
The company is also unveiling a secure cloud-based backup solution, Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module, which is based on the company's tape backup management software.
"Amazon Web Services enables businesses and developers to run on a reliable, flexible and scalable cloud computing platform," adds Adam Selipsky, VP of product management and developer relations for Amazon Web Services. "For the first time, customers who want to run Oracle's software to develop and deploy new, innovative applications in the cloud can do so with Oracle running on Amazon Web Services."
Selipsky says that, for customers who need to quickly move large volumes of data into or out of the Amazon Web Services cloud, Amazon also allows the creation of network peering connections.
He says Amazon and Oracle are collaborating on solutions to allow cost-effective, high-volume backups and restores, even in network-bandwidth constrained environments, by means of physical import and export.
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