ORACLE Corp. announced on June 22 two new models of its database appliance targeting small- and medium-sized businesses.
The launch comes as the International Data Corp. (IDC) pegged Oracle as having a 24-percent market share in the worldwide integrated systems in the first quarter of the year, generating revenue in that period of $379.62 million. IDC defines integrated systems as pre-integrated, vendor-certified systems containing server hardware, disk storage systems, networking equipment and basic element, or systems management software.
“Since Oracle owns the entire stack, its systems are fully hardware-software integrated, pre-tested and optimized from silicon to applications,” Oracle quoted IDC analyst Peter Rutten as saying. “They are quickly deployed, extend smoothly to Oracle’s cloud, and the various systems seem to work well together.”
According to Rutten, analyst for IDC’s Computing Platforms Group, the latest Oracle database appliances “should help small- and medium-sized businesses put a fully operational entry-level Oracle database in place— apparently no screwdrivers required.”
IDC pegged the Integrated Systems market to have generated revenues during the first quarter of 2016 of $1,584.25 million. The amount, IDC said, represented a year-over-year increase of 1.8 percent and 62.8 percent of the total market value. Oracle said its database appliances start at a price of $18,000 (about P845,685) for new, entry-level database appliance for single or small database instances.