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deployed as “private” clouds or “public” clouds. Private clouds are exclusive to a single organization. “Public”
clouds are used by multiple organizations on a shared basis and hosted and managed by a third party service
provider.
Our cloud computing strategy is broad and comprehensive to provide customers with choice and a pragmatic
roadmap for adopting cloud computing. We provide enterprise-grade software and hardware products and
services for both private and public clouds, including the following examples:
For private clouds:
• Oracle Applications software runs on a standards-based, shared and dynamically scalable Oracle
platform;
• Oracle Fusion Middleware and Database software, and engineered systems enable customers to
consolidate existing Oracle and third party applications, and more efficiently build new applications;
and
• Oracle’s servers, storage and networking hardware, virtualization and operating system software, and
engineered systems enable customers to run their software applications on shared hardware.
For public clouds:
• Oracle Cloud Services offer a variety of Oracle Applications and technology with a choice of
deployment models, including managed hosting services and subscription-based software offerings;
• Oracle Applications, Fusion Middleware, Database, operating systems and virtualization software
products that customers can deploy in public clouds; and
• Oracle Fusion Middleware and Database software, and engineered systems for independent software
vendors’ (ISV) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, as well as for third party cloud service
providers.
For integration between clouds:
• Oracle software products that enable integration across public and private clouds, including identity
and access management, SOA and process integration, and data integration and master data
management.
Engineered Systems
An important element of our corporate strategy and product development efforts is to engineer our hardware and
software products together in order to gain tremendous efficiencies and provide increased IT performance,
reliability, and security to customers. These pre-integrated and optimized combinations of our software and
hardware products are called “engineered systems.” Two of our most important engineered systems are our
Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Because of their high performance,
scalability and ability to be shared by multiple applications, they are well suited for IT consolidation and cloud
computing.
Oracle Exadata
Oracle Exadata is a family of integrated software and hardware products that combines our database, storage and
operating system software with our server, storage and networking hardware to provide customers with improved
performance for database applications, including online transaction processing and data warehousing, among
others. For example, our Oracle Exadata Database Machine is an engineered system that is designed to improve
performance, scalability and reliability through an integrated storage and server architecture and high data
networking bandwidth. It also features intelligent Oracle Exadata Storage Software to offload query processing,
integrate solid state storage and efficiently compress data. Oracle Exadata is designed to enable customers to
consolidate databases, manage a greater volume of data, dramatically improve query response times and further
reduce costs by using fewer IT resources.
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