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Oracle Singles Out AWS in Announcing Cloud Archive Storage

• By David Ramel
• 06/23/2015

Oracle Corp. didn't disguise what competitor it was targeting with one of many new services added to its cloud platform yesterday.

"Our new Archive Storage service goes head-to-head with Amazon Glacier and it's one-tenth their price," executive chairman Larry Ellison said. The feisty Oracle boss was on hand at a live event to introduce a bevy of new additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform Platform as a Service (PaaS).

With Amazon Glacier from Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) touting the ability to "reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month," Oracle is indeed undercutting that with a one-tenth-the-price offering of $0.001 for 1 GB per month for long-term data retention of large-scale and infrequently accessed data.

The Oracle move indicates the software giant is encroaching upon the "big three" cloud services providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform. "Isn't it interesting?" Ellison said during the live event. "Our primary competitor used to be IBM [and SAP]. It is now Amazon. ... They're not a bookstore only anymore."

"As a 'deep cloud' archive, the Archive Storage Cloud is suited for infrequently accessed large-scale data sets, such as corporate financial records, medical and pharmaceutical archives, cultural preservation content, insurance records and digital film masters," Oracle said in a statement. "The service, backed by enterprise-grade SLAs, enables organizations to access archived documents and data sets using industry-standard APIs, and integration with Oracle and third-party backup, archival and preservation software. It also provides an additional tier for on-premises Oracle storage systems, including ZS Series, FS Series and Oracle StorageTek tape solutions."

The barrage of new services announced also includes Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud and Oracle Process Cloud.