September 22, 2008

The essence of the Oracle Amazon cloud offering

OK. The press release adds color to what I previously posted about Oracle’s new Amazon cloud offering. (Emphasis mine.)

Deployment is explained by

Enabling customers to deploy Oracle solutions on Amazon EC2 quickly and efficiently, Oracle is delivering a set of free Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Using Oracle provided AMIs, 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.

And the backup option is explained as

Oracle is also introducing a secure Cloud-based backup solution. Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module, based on Oracle’s premier tape backup management software, Oracle Secure Backup, enables customers to use the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as their database backup destination. Cloud-based backups offer reliability and virtually unlimited capacity, available on-demand and with no up-front capital expenditure. The Oracle Secure Backup Cloud Module also enables encrypted data backups to help ensure complete privacy in the Cloud environment. It’s fully integrated with Oracle Recovery Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager, providing users with familiar interfaces for Cloud-based backups.

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