Private PAAS by Oracle

In recent week, I had the opportunity to attend all three vendors presentation on the topic of  cloud computing. Today, I shall blog about one of them, the Oracle cloud offerings, or they termed it as Oracle Private PaaS(Platform as a Service). I have been using oracle products for many years now, and was very interested in the presentation given by the Oracle reps.

Oracle Private 'PaaS' aimed to achieve these 5 parts.

1) Shared Infrastructure with dynamic scaling
To create an infrastructure which can dynamically scale,  Oracle re-utilized the Grid technology. On the application front, there is an Application grid, where the tools like Weblogic Server, JRockit, Coherence, Tuxedo resides.On the data management, Oracle has the Database Grid & Storage Grid. Concept of In-Memory Database Cache(IMDB), Real Application Cluster(RAC) and Automatic Storage Management are also in built in the private PaaS offerings. The OEM also allow to do the administering.

2) Support component sharing
To support component sharing, Oracle have the SOA & BPM together with the Oracle workflows and Identity Management(IM).

3) Support fast deployment
Pre-configured images, Oracle VM and new component like the Weblogic Server Virtual Edition(VE), can be assembled using the Oracle Assembly Builder by making them into Assembled catalog and then the can be deployed as a platform.

4) Self-serviced
Oracle EM can help PaaS to be self-serviced by scaling up and down.

5) Management and Automation
Lastly management and automation can be done via OEM. IM allow identity management of users.

Oracle believe, most organization providing application services really need a private PaaS solutions instead of IaaS. The focus should be in facilitating the build of apps, making it easier and flexible and can be deploy fast.
Oracle propose this by adopting their Private PaaS solutions.