Oracle launches private cloud offering

Oracle has unveiled a private cloud offering that aims to accelerate enterprise infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) deployments, and it claims its complete stack is more cost-effective than other solutions.

The offering has been dubbed the Oracle Optimised Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure', and combines Sun blade server modules with Oracle's Linux, ZFS storage appliance and VM. The solution can be supported and managed as a single system.

Oracle Consulting and Oracle Advanced Customer Services are also offered, providing a "single vendor" approach,  according to the company, where support, assessment and implementation services are all provided.

As part of the release pack for the product, Oracle provided a comparison between the cost of implementing its own x86 blade servers with Linux, integrated virtualisation and a unified support contract against HP blade servers, Red Hat Linux and VMware vSphere.

The comparison highlights the fact that Oracle openly charges a premium for its hardware, which looks up to 20 per cent more costly.

However, according to Oracle, when customers purchase its integrated stack, even with the costly hardware, the fact that they do not have to buy numerous licences from several vendors, means the price is on average 37 per cent less expensive.

"Oracle is radically simplifying cloud deployment with a pre-tested, single vendor solution for an enterprise cloud infrastructure," said Ali Alasti, vice president of hardware deployment, Oracle.

"By engineering our hardware and software together, the Oracle Optimised Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure cuts deployment time from weeks to hours and helps customers get their virtualised infrastructure up and running more quickly."