Oracle Cloud Platform
{{Short description|Platform as a Service}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Oracle Cloud Platform
| logo = File:Oracle logo.svg
| logo_caption =
| type = Public
| industry = Cloud computing
| founder = Larry Ellison
Bob Miner
Ed Oates{{cite news|url=https://www.oracle.com/corporate/executives/board-of-directors.html|title=Oracle Board of Directors|work=Oracle Corporation|accessdate=August 10, 2017}}
| hq_location_city = Austin, Texas
| hq_location_country = United States
| area_served = Worldwide
| products = Platform as a service
| website = {{URL|https://www.oracle.com/cloud}}
}}
Oracle Cloud Platform refers to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings by Oracle Corporation as part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1918CwAAQBAJ&dq=oracle+cloud&pg=PA59|title=Trustworthy Cloud Computing|last=Safonov|first=Vladimir O.|date=2016-01-29|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781119113515|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZLSBQAAQBAJ&dq=oracle+cloud+platform&pg=PA149|title=The CIO's Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions|last=Keyes|first=Jessica|date=2014-09-02|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781482249958|language=en}} These offerings are used to build, deploy, integrate and extend applications in the cloud. The offerings support a variety of programming languages, databases, tools and frameworks including Oracle-specific, open source and third-party software and systems.
Deployment models
Oracle Cloud Platform offers public, private and hybrid cloud deployment models.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=83UpDwAAQBAJ&dq=oracle+cloud+saas&pg=PA2|title=Oracle IaaS: Quick Reference Guide to Cloud Solutions|last=Saygili|first=Okcan Yasin|date=2017-06-23|publisher=Apress|isbn=9781484228326|language=en}}
Architecture
Oracle Cloud Platform provides both Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). The infrastructure is offered through a global network of Oracle managed data centers. Oracle deploys their cloud in Regions. Inside each Region are at least three fault-independent Availability Domains. Each of these Availability Domains contains an independent data center with power, thermal and network isolation. Oracle Cloud is generally available{{Cite web|url=https://cloud.oracle.com/data-regions|title=Enterprise Cloud Computing SaaS, PaaS, IaaS {{!}} Oracle Cloud|website=cloud.oracle.com|language=en|access-date=2017-11-16}} in North America, EMEA, APAC and Japan with announced South America and US Govt. regions coming soon.{{Cite web|url=https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/infrastructure/architecture|title=Architecture {{!}} Oracle Cloud Infrastructure|website=cloud.oracle.com|language=en|access-date=2017-11-16}}
See also
Further reading
- [https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/corporate/analystrelations/ovum-selecting-cloud-platform-vendor.pdf Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a Cloud Platform for Hybrid Integration Vendor, 2019-20]
References
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External links
- [https://cloud.oracle.com/paas Official website]