Cloud-computing IT environments, including those offered though Oracle Cloud Software as a Service (Saas). Platform as a service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-a service (Iaas) offerings, were designed to be attractive and cost-effective options for customers as Oracle integrated the software and hardware on the customer behalf in IT environments that it deployed, supported, and managed.
Oracle was a leader in e core technologies of cloud computing, including database and middleware software, as well as Web-based applications, virtualization,clustering,large-scale system management, and related infrastructure.
Its products and services were the building blocks of its own cloud services, its partners cloud services, and its customers' cloud IT environments.
An important element of its corporate strategy was to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable products and services that were built upon industry standards and were engineered to work both together or independently, regardless of the deployment model selected.