Oracle Database 12c now in SL
View(s):Oracle recently announced the availability of its Database 12c for the Sri Lankan market, following the product’s general release, worldwide, in June 2013. According to Kaleem Chaudhry, the Regional Director for Enterprise Technology, Oracle Asia Pacific this new release features a new architecture which is the first time in over five years that the company has done a major release of its main database product. He also added that this was a disruptive technology, which will change the way data centres are run.
Further, Mr. Chaudhry also commented that this new product offers five times the scalability, while cutting hardware costs by six times, with the added advantage that business functionality can be rolled out immediately rather than over six months, by which time a new market can already be lost.
According to Mr. Chaudhry, “Oracle Database 12c is a next-generation database designed to meet these needs, providing a new multitenant architecture on top of a fast, scalable, reliable, and secure database platform. By plugging into the cloud with Oracle Database 12c, customers can improve the quality and performance of applications, save time with maximum availability architecture and storage management and simplify database consolidation by managing hundreds of databases as one”.
At the same time, the product’s accompanying documentation highlights a number of features attributable to improved Big Data storage, management and analysis including heat mapping to track data that is used most often. There is also automatic data optimisation whereby data is categorised as ‘hot’, requiring minimum compression, while balance data, to be archived, is identified as ‘cold’ with maximum compression utilised, in a process known as Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC). This is just one of 500 additional features available with the Database 12c, which also includes simplified provisioning, cloning and resource prioritisation.
Additionally, product documentation also highlighted the fact that transitioning to the cloud typically “leaves IT organisations exposed to risk and failures when changes go live”, due to a limited testing beforehand, a scenario that this product specifically guards against. The one year price structure for Database 12c, quoted on the company’s online store, is US$70 per user, without support, for a minimum of five licences, for the individual edition, and $190 per user, without support, for a minimum of 25 licences, for the enterprise edition. Meanwhile, Mr. Chaudhry also opined that cloud adoption in Sri Lanka is “really on the high end”, attributing this trend to ‘technology skip’ which allows emerging markets to directly adopt the newest technologies available rather than having to follow the trial and error methodologies responsible for the creation of these technologies in the first place. (JH)
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