Oracle Magazine - January/February 2012

Open to the Public
Oracle Public Cloud provides a self-service,
subscription-based model for building, deploying,
and running applications in the cloud.

BOB ADLER

Caroline Kvitka, Oracle Magazine senior managing editor, sat down with Amit Zavery, vice president for Oracle Public Cloud, to talk about Oracle’s new public cloud offering. The following is an excerpt from that interview. Download the full podcast at oracle.com/magcasts. Oracle Magazine: What was the biggest cloud news at Oracle Open World 2011? Zavery: [Oracle CEO] Larry Ellison announced Oracle Public Cloud, a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services that provide customers with subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle products in a public cloud environment. Oracle Magazine: What are the components? Zavery: We’re providing applications and platform services, including Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management Cloud Service, Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network [see “Social for Business,” page 23], Oracle Database Cloud Service, and Oracle Java Cloud Service. Oracle Magazine: How do the platform services work? Zavery: Customers can either build new applications or take their existing standard Java and Oracle Database applications and deploy them to Oracle Public Cloud without rewriting them. Oracle Magazine: How does Oracle Public Cloud differ from Oracle On Demand? Zavery: Oracle On Demand provides hosted services for Oracle applications and technologies that a customer has purchased. Oracle Public Cloud is a self-service mechanism where you can purchase and provision a particular service for as long as you want. Oracle Magazine: How does this subscription model work? Zavery: You sign up for an account and select

Amit Zavery, Vice President, Oracle Public Cloud

the service that you want. You get notified of the provisioned instance and can start using those services.

Oracle Magazine: What’s unique about
Oracle’s public cloud offering?
Zavery: First, we provide a complete set of
integrated services across applications and
platform. Second, our cloud services are
100 percent industry standards–based, so
customers can use SQL, Java, and so on to
build their applications. Third, we provide
customers flexibility to deploy the same
applications both in the cloud and on prem-
ises without rewriting any code.
Oracle Magazine: Where does Oracle Public
Cloud fit for customers running Oracle tech-
nology in their own data centers?
Zavery: If customers want to create a devel-
opment and test environment without
buying a server farm or software, they can
sign up for Oracle Public Cloud and start
building or move their existing application
instantly. They can continue using their on-
premises environment, but they gain the
ability to do development and testing and
add more capacity easily.