As cloud computing takes off, different stakeholders in the IT industry are coming up with building blocks to make it more usable and adaptable.
Oracle has launched Database12c (or DB12c) in India and is in the process of selling the idea to big and small enterprises. The IT major expects that this product would help increase cloud adaptation in India.
A database is a well-organised set of electronic data that can facilitate ‘interaction’ between the users with the data, in a secure way. For example, if you use an ATM in midnight in a far-off location, your request is sent to the bank’s databases for validation.
Sheshagiri Anegondi, Vice-President (Technology) of Oracle India, is currently on a roadshow, covering major cities and meeting stakeholders on the newer database product that is claimed to be the world's first database designed for the cloud.
“Database management forms a considerable part of IT expenditure. DB12c allows the user to consolidate, clone and manage hundreds of databases into a single multi-tenant container database in the cloud. This is five times more scalable than traditional databases,” he said.
He claims that enterprises can save up to 30 per cent spend on managing databases and up to 20 per cent cost on hardware spend because they need lesser number of servers and lesser storage. Also, they would spend less on administrative and maintenance costs like upgrades and electricity.
Oracle employs about 30,000 people, or about one-fourth of its global employee base, in India.
In an interaction with Business Line , Sheshagiri said people who were presently using Oracle database didn’t need to pay for getting onto DB12c. “The upgrade to 12c is free. It is part of our support,” he said. It has 7,000 customers in India.
Huge data
He said the businesses would need still bigger databases as the volume of data piling up. This would also require people to deal with data from separate places to carry out collaborative work.
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