Cloud Computing Center

Oracle has played a pioneering role in making Grid Computing relevant to enterprises with ground breaking products such as Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and Storage Grid. More recently, Oracle has brought Grid Computing to middleware with the Application Grid approach to infrastructure. These products/technologies make the enterprise IT infrastructure elastic so that it can grow incrementally without any theoretical upper limit, as well as provide the flexibility to move resources around in order to meet dynamic business priorities.

In September 2008, Oracle introduced new offerings that allow enterprises to benefit from the developments taking place in the area of Cloud Computing. As a part of our initial offering, Oracle has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer the following products and services:

•	Deploy Oracle Software in the Cloud
•	Backup Oracle Database in the Cloud

These offerings may be extended to other Cloud platforms in the future.

Available Amazon Machine Images
	Oracle Database 11g R1 EE on Enterprise Linux (32-bit)	Oracle Database 11g R1 EE on Enterprise Linux (64-bit)
	Oracle Database 10g Express Edition on Enterprise Linux (32-bit)	Oracle Database 11g R1 SE/SE One on Enterprise Linux (64-bit)
	Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3 on Enterprise Linux (32-bit)	Oracle WebLogic Server 10g R3 on Enterprise Linux (64-bit)

Getting Started
	Datasheet: Oracle in the Cloud (PDF)	Technical White Paper: Cloud Backup (PDF)
	Licensing	Technical White Paper: Oracle Database on EC2 (PDF)
	FAQ	OTN Podcast: Oracle in the Cloud (MP3)
	Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Session: Using Oracle Database in the Cloud (PDF)	Oracle Middleware in the Cloud

About Amazon Web Services
	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
	Amazon Web Services Security (PDF)	Amazon Elastic Block Storage
	Amazon Web Services Premium Support

Demos and Tutorials
	Deploying Oracle Database in the Cloud	Building Rich Enterprise Applications in the Cloud
	Oracle by Example: Using Transparent Data Encryption	Backing up Database in the Cloud
	Oracle By Example: Performing Backups and Recovering Your Database	Oracle By Example: Building a Functional Application using Oracle Application Express

Technical Information
	RMAN Backup and Recovery Optimization (PDF)	Transparent Data Encryption
	Oracle Advanced Security	Backup Encryption


	Download Cloud Backup Installer

Case Studies

·	Harvard Medical School
·	Oracle Database in the Cloud Floated at Harvard Lab

Articles and Blogs

·	AWS Blog: "Oracle Enters the AWS Cloud"
·	InformationWeek Blog: "Oracle in the Cloud"
·	OTN TechBlog: "Oracle Seeds the Cloud"
·	Charles Lamb Blog: Berkeley DB Java Edition and AWS/EC2
·	"Application Express Nuggets" Blog: Test Drive Oracle Application Express 3.2 for 60 cents
·	Tech Article: Running Oracle Database XE in the Cloud