Oracle Corporation recently held a half day seminar entitled ‘Strategies for your journey to the cloud’. During the sessions a variety of converged infrastructure options that are engineered for the cloud were presented.
The event was opened by Oracle Malta’s senior country leader, Michael Balzan, followed by presentations given by Oracle’s top cloud experts and sales consultants, who explained in detail how businesses can accelerate their digital transformation with Oracle’s Cloud Platform and how being left behind can have a serious impact on their operation. Today’s approach to managing data is slow, unsecure and complex. Oracle Cloud offers a fully secure and efficient data centre to protect and accelerate one’s business.
The guest speaker was Ivan Muscat, head of Engineering and Infrastructure at Megabyte Ltd, who spoke about the challenges that IT departments are facing in today’s world. Such challenges include increased operating costs and resource constraints. Mr Muscat said: “Oracle’s solution to simplifying IT is offering customers a stack where hardware and software are engineered to work together; this enables companies to deal with a single supplier for the complete technology stack.”
Microsoft’s Azure market place
Microsoft has just announced that its Azure market place has been expanded to 13 additional new countries including Malta.
This development means that besides the already existing 22 sell-from countries, new Independent Software Vendors (ISV) in Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia can promote and sell their apps, tools and services in the Azure Marketplace to Azure customers around the world.
“The Azure Marketplace is an online store that enables ecosystem partners to offer their solutions to enterprises and Azure customers around the world. Within a single, unified platform, customers can easily search, purchase, and deploy your solutions on Azure with just a few clicks,” said Edward Portelli, business development manager at Microsoft’s Innovation Centre.
Azure is one of the main products that start-ups using the MIC get to enjoy for free. “Potentially, the most positive aspect of this development is that since Azure Marketplace handles metering, billing, reporting and management of customer accounts, this frees start-ups and independent software vendors and allows them to focus better developing and marketing their respective products,” he added.