Oracle Unveils Its Exalogic Elastic Cloud

Larry Ellison delivered a keynote in which he personally pulled the wraps off

Sep. 20, 2010 12:00 AM

Describing it as "Cloud-in-a-box," Oracle used the opening day of Oracle OpenWorld to launch Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud, with CEO Larry Ellison delivering a keynote in which he personally pulled the wraps off.

Ellison expounded upon Oracle's belief that "The Cloud" is a standards-based application development and execution platform.

The Exalogic system, he said, will enable enterprises to run their own cloud in a self-contained system. What Oracle is offering, he explained, is a system of hardware-plus-software "engineered to work together to run all your apps."

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Jeremy Geelan is President & COO of Cloud Expo, Inc. and Conference Chair of the worldwide Cloud Expo series. He appears regularly at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of Cloud Expo's "Power Panels" on SYS-CON.TV.

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