Oracle grabs vital FedRAMP certficate
US government agencies will find it much easier to buy cloud services from Oracle, after the database giant secured provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP).
Provisional authority was granted on Thursday, almost 12 months to the day that cloud rival Amazon gained its own FedRAMP certification. Since then, HP, IBM and Microsoft have all also secured certification, and two months ago VMware said it would also apply.
By getting FedRAMP certification, it cuts out a lot of the red tape that agencies would otherwise need to go through when procuring cloud IT services. All agencies need to perform are a few specific evaluations over aspects of the tech that concern them only, before they make a decision on whether or not to buy.
Oracle only launched its cloud services for government back in September 2013, and this certification is “a critical milestone in Oracle’s efforts to implement and deploy secure private-cloud environments to our U.S. Government customers and partners,” said Rick Cirigliano, vice president of public sector for Oracle’s Managed Cloud Services, in a statement.
There are three flavors of Oracle’s Managed Cloud Services which government agencies can choose from, namely: Applications Managed Cloud Service, which manages all Oracle applications; Technology Managed Cloud Service, which gives agencies a way to access all of Oracle’s apps in the cloud; and Extended Managed Cloud Service, which provides additional services for existing on-premise apps.
Oracle’s certification gives it an advantage over Google, which is now the biggest cloud tech provider not to hold that oh-so important piece of paper.
Nevertheless, the rewards for doing so may not be that great. While most major tech companies are keen to rub shoulders with government agencies, a report from IDC last year predicted said agencies will spend just $1.83 billion on private cloud and a mere $118.3 million on public cloud. Still a substantial sum of money of course, but it doesn’t represent much for the likes of Oracle and co.
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