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Oracle is investing in the Arm ecosystem, providing developers with more choice in compute instances and the best price-performance, compared to any other x86 instance on a per core basis.
Oracle has launched an ARM-based compute offering on its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), OCI Ampere A1 Compute. The offering includes a range of tools, solutions, and support for the platform based on ARM-based processors, which also includes flexible VM sizing to allow customers to customise based on memory and core requirements. Oracle said the solution aims to help customers run cloud-native and general-purpose workloads on ARM instances with “significant price-performance benefits”. The service is available in either a bare metal instance, a dual-socket 164 instance with 1 TB memor...
iTWire Wednesday, 26 May 2021 01:45 Oracle Cloud now provides Arm CPUs at one cent per core hour Featured Oracle today announced a new range of Arm compute instances based on Ampere’s ARM processors along with the tools and support to accelerate Arm-based application development. The new Arm offerings clock in at a single cent per core hour, the industry’s lowest cost per core. The x86 processor market largely warded off competition from SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC and Titanium options from the 1980s through the early 2000s, becoming the dominant CPU format. Today it’s a ...
He also pointed to the vendor's software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM), which he said would help drive its cloud offerings as organisations modernised their supply chains. Oracle currently runs 29 cloud regions worldwide, including in Japan, Australia, and India, with plans to add another nine by July this year that will include Singapore. A year ago, it had 19 regions, having added one every 26 days, Chelliah said. He said the expansion was fuelled by strong customer demand for data centres that were ...