Oracle Cloud Is Launching 11 New Capabilities

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on Tuesday launched 11 — count ‘em, 11 — new capabilities. The provider says those will enable users to run workloads faster and more securely at less cost (sort of contrary to what’s happening over at Google Cloud).

There’s a lot of information around the new services — find the full details here. As an overview, though, look for new capabilities around containers, AMD, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution on AMD, content delivery, firewalls, web application acceleration, network visualization, vTAP and more.

“The promise of the cloud has always been paying for only what you need, but customers continue to overprovision due to rigid configuration options in most cloud platforms,” said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, cloud and edge infrastructure services, at IDC. “OCI has made significant strides to address this problem by introducing new flexible compute, storage and network infrastructure services over the last year. OCI customers can reduce costs by more accurately matching consumption to demand.”

OCI plans to have the new services and capabilities available this year.