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Table of Contents
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Our Oracle IaaS offerings, which are a part of our software and cloud business and represented 2% of total revenues in fiscal 2015 and 1% of
total revenues in each of fiscal 2014 and 2013, provide deployment and management offerings for our software and hardware and related IT
infrastructure, including:
Infrastructure Technologies
Oracle infrastructure technologies consist of our hardware systems products including Oracle Engineered Systems, servers, storage, networking,
industry specific hardware, virtualization software, operating systems, management software and related hardware services including support.
We also offer Oracle IaaS, which provides elastic compute and storage capabilities, among others.
Our infrastructure technologies help customers manage growing amounts of data and business requirements, meet increasing compliance and
regulatory demands and reduce energy, space and operational costs. Our infrastructure technologies support many of the world’s largest on-
premises and cloud IT environments, including the Oracle Cloud. Our infrastructure technologies are designed to seamlessly connect on-
premises and cloud IT environments to further enable interoperability, interchangeability and extendibility. We design our infrastructure
technologies to work in customer environments that may include other Oracle or non-Oracle hardware or software components. Our flexible and
open approach provides Oracle customers with a broad range of choices in how they deploy our infrastructure technologies, which we believe is
a priority for our customers.
We focus the operation and integration of our infrastructure technologies to make them easier to deploy, manage and maintain for our customers
and to improve computing performance relative to our competitors’ offerings. For example, our Oracle Engineered Systems are designed to
integrate multiple Oracle technology components to work together to deliver improved performance, availability, security and operational
efficiency relative to our competitors’ products. These same Oracle technology components are tested together and supported together to
streamline system deployment and maintenance cycles. We also engineer our hardware systems with virtualization and management capabilities
to enable the rapid deployment and efficient management of cloud and on-premises IT infrastructures.
Our infrastructure technologies are substantially marketed, sold and delivered through our hardware business, which includes our hardware
systems products segment and hardware systems support segment. Our hardware systems products revenues represented 8% of our total
revenues in each of fiscal 2015, 2014 and 2013. Our hardware systems support revenues represented 6% of our total revenues in each of fiscal
2015, 2014 and 2013.
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comprehensive software and hardware management and maintenance services for customer IT infrastructure for a stated term that is
hosted at our Oracle data center facilities, select partner data centers or physically on
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premises at customer facilities;
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virtual machine instance services in which we deploy, secure, provision, manage and maintain certain of our hardware products for our
customers to provide them with a set of cloud-based core infrastructure capabilities like elastic compute and storage services to run
workloads in the cloud; and
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hardware and related support services offerings for certain of our Oracle Engineered Systems that are deployed at our customers’ data
centers for a monthly fee that includes the option of elastic compute capacity on demand and Oracle Platinum and PlatinumPlus
Services for a higher level of support and advisory services designed to ensure these hardware products remain configured and tuned
correctly with quarterly automated assessments for performance, availability and security.