Deploy your Oracle software in Amazon’s EC2

Running software and backing up databases in clouds, as a concept, is gaining ground as savvy developers understand when to use it… and when not to.

Not all corporate software deployments should occur outside of the realm of an internal server room but for some projects, it’s the new way to reduce development, integration and testing cycles.

If you happen to be using Oracle to manage your data, you’re well set to use their software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform which is an open and integrated set of technologies, including the following:

• Oracle Database;
• Oracle Fusion Middleware;
• Oracle Enterprise Manager; and
• Oracle VM.

They allow independent software vendors to build, deploy and manage both on-premise and cloud-based applications.

The Oracle SaaS platform helps businesses achieve scalability and availability with support for grid computing,virtualization and integrated management across the platform. Coupled with the development, integration and testing cycles savings (in both time and money), it’s even more interesting.

SaaS and cloud computing have made the enterprise IT infrastructure somewhat elastic so that it can grow incrementally without any theoretical upper limit. Oracle has caught on to this idea and has partnered with Amazon Web Services to enable companies to…

• deploy Oracle software; and
• back up Oracle Database.

…in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, dubbed Amazon EC2.

If you’ve been in charge of projects that seem to grow exponentially, you’re likely to understand, first-hand, why this technological approach makes sense. It’s up to you to see if your project is a good fit for it.

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