| | November 20156CIOReviewCopyright © 2015 CIOReview. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewNOVEMBER 30 - 2015Managing EditorJeevan GeorgeEditorial StaffAishwarya KannanAlex D'souzaJade RayBrian JacksonIan WestT:510.565.7559 VisualizersStephen ThomasArpita GhoshORACLE SPECIALCIOReviewSalesKatherine Joneskatherine@cioreview.com Mary Elizabethmary@cioreview.com Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 NOVEMBER 30 - 2015, Volume 4 SE 106 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com Cloud is revolutionizing businesses. Being able to save significant costs by outsourcing core computing functions to a tech giant, rather than running and maintaining a slew of servers in-house, is an invaluable perk. With innovative startups turning the whole industry upside down, Oracle has spent the last 10 years rewriting every one of its on-premises enterprise application for the cloud. The result? New cloud services to "go tooth and nail against Amazon EC2 and S3." The recently concluded Oracle OpenWorld 2015 brought some exciting news to the enterprise world--Oracle Elastic Compute Cloud, a direct rival to today's dominating AWS cloud infrastructure. Along with an entire range of several cloud offerings, a Container Cloud to please the Docker fans is on its way too.While Oracle's Co-CEO, Mark Hurd predicts that in 10 years, 80 percent of all production applications will be in the cloud, a relaxed Larry Ellison, the now CTO of Oracle, cautions that the public cloud is far off from being fully embraced by businesses. "The biggest cloud companies are $6 billion in size; they are not $100 billion, in terms of their cloud business," points out Ellison. Undaunted by AWS's annual growth rate of 80 percent, he turns the spotlight on the small proportion of enterprise workloads running in the public cloud. Ellison expects this to be a 10 year transition; given that how entrenched its enterprise customers are with on-premises computing, a decade seems like a fair evaluation. Regardless of how the circumstances stand now, Oracle has made one thing clear: it is not going to bow out and will continue competing aggressively on all fronts--from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud, across industries and at every level of the stack.This is clear as day from the barrage of announcements that came from OpenWorld--from a state-of-the-art microprocessor to a hyper-converged system to enterprise SaaS applications. With Oracle intent on winning the race to the cloud and emerging as a dominant force in cloud computing--based on the completeness of its offerings across the stack--we believe Oracle partners have big role to play in this paradigm shift. With that, we present to you this special edition of CIOReview that will help you be better prepared and navigate the changing Oracle landscape.Jeevan GeorgeManaging Editoreditor@cioreview.comEditorialOracle: Racing to the Cloud
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