“With today’s announcement we complete our Cloud. I am now able to say that we have a complete suite of services for the creation of modern applications and the running and managing of those applications,” said Larry Ellison, executive chairman of the board and chief technology officer of Oracle Corp.  “We will continue to create and improve, but all the major pieces are in place.”

Ellison captivated the audience during his keynote address at the Oracle Cloud Platform Launch, announcing that Oracle Cloud Services now offers more than two dozen additional PaaS and IaaS services, including the missing block of compute service. This officially completes Oracle’s suite of Cloud services.

‘It’s all of the data management technology you need to manage all of your data in the Oracle Cloud’

Describing the “brand new world” of enterprise application and data management services, Ellison underscores Oracle’s superiority in the marketplace with a direct contrast between Oracle and competitor Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services in a case comparison for moving from on-prem to Cloud-based services. Not only do Oracle Cloud Services offer both hardware and software as a service, all application management is highly automated, providing 4x faster provisioning than AWS and leading to fewer errors and lower costs for the customer.

Not content with beating its competitors in  standards, compatibility, simplicity, reliability and scalability, Ellison announced that Oracle’s data storage services will be priced 10X lower than AWS, potentially saving the customer millions of dollars per year in archive costs.

“We’re seeing explosive demand for Oracle PaaS … I’ve never seen anything like it, not even in the early days of Oracle,” Ellison told the audience. Oracle broke the industry record for sales in Q4 2015, with a 200% increase over last year, he said. And Oracle Cloud Services is consistently outselling competitors such as Workday, Inc. and Salesforce.com, with 19 out of 20 major enterprise SaaS applications currently built on Oracle and Java.

The key points of Ellison’s speech included:

Oracle provides all three tiers of cloud services: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
Competitors Amazon Web Services offers IaaS and Salesforce.com offers IaaS and SaaS.

All three tiers operate on industry standards
Oracle knows the importance of standards and intercompatibility, offering options that support not just Java, but all popular programming languages.

On-prem and in-Cloud
Oracle Cloud Services offer identical technology for both on-prem and Cloud, as well as the ability to move applications and databases back and forth, fast and simply.

Best-in-class security
Long-time experts in security, Oracle offers Cloud security services plus private Cloud behind the enterprise firewall.

Best-in-class reliability
Oracle’s premium support has a 15-minute response time.

Best-in-class performance and scalability
Oracle’ s Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, and SuperCluster offer fast, scalable engineered solutions.

After Ellison left the stage, the keynote continued with Oracle’s President of Product Development Thomas Kurian going into depth on the new services and showing practical demonstrations. Dru Borden VP Software Development, Public Cloud demonstrated the new Compute Service through descriptions on how to deploy LAMP stack, hook LAMP stack to NFS and archive logs into archive storage. Penny Avril, Oracle VP of Product Management, gave a walk-through on setting up the Exadata service. And Inderjeet Singh, EVP Oracle Fusion Middleware Development, gave a detailed demonstration of how Oracle Cloud Services allows developers to build and provide analysis from mobile apps, plus he presented an overview of the integration of Cloud service.

The keynote concludes with Steve Daheb, senior VP, Oracle Cloud – Paas, IaaS, Security, Mobile, Big Data, BI and EPM, presiding over a panel discussion on use-case scenarios with Oracle Cloud Services customers Fari Ebrahimi, senior VP and Chief Information Officer at Avaya, Inc.; Rajeev Sethi, senior director, IT at JDS Uniphase Corp.; Michael Kuban, director Enterprise Solutions Delivery at Pharmavite, LLC; and Mark Willford, senior managing director at Accenture, LLP.

Watch the video of the Oracle Cloud Platform Launch Keynote Address below, and check out SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s full coverage of the Oracle Cloud Platform Launch.

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