OREANDA-NEWS. October 28, 2015. “Accenture’s Cloud First agenda is about helping clients move to the cloud to accelerate innovation, modernize systems, reduce costs and gain competitive advantage,” said Terri Strauss, managing director and global Oracle business lead for Accenture. “The Accenture Oracle Business Group is focused on driving Oracle Software-as-a-Service applications through the Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle to help clients speed this transition, simplify their IT infrastructure, and maximize the business benefits of cloud computing.”

“Our relationship with Oracle ensures that our goal of delivering consistently secure software to cloud infrastructures becomes an industry standard,” said Erica Brescia, COO of Bitnami. “The Bitnami Cloud Launchpad for Oracle extends our commitment to the Oracle community and enables customers to easily reap the benefits of the Bitnami Application Library. We look forward to leveraging the power of the Oracle Cloud to help us achieve our business goals.”

"Oracle is well-positioned to meet the needs of enterprises looking for easy and ready-to-run application images on the Oracle Cloud Platform,” said Jay Wampold, Vice President of Marketing, Chef.  “With integration enabling users to easily bootstrap new Oracle Cloud instances and test infrastructure as code, Chef combines with Oracle Cloud Platform to deliver a fully-automated and reliable cloud experience.”

“The Oracle Cloud Platform provides reliable, low-cost, and secure Infrastructure as a Service, and CloudBolt provides a simple way to roll those capabilities out to end-users,” said Jon Mittelhauser, CEO, CloudBolt. “The CloudBolt cloud management platform provides an easy way to migrate users from expensive legacy virtualization technologies to the Oracle Cloud Platform as well as powerful management and self-service capabilities.”

“The banking industry has been slow in adopting cloud due to concerns such as security and compliance, despite the proven benefits of lower costs, flexibility and scalability,” said Michael Reh, Executive Vice President and CEO (designate), EdgeVerve. “However, with the world becoming more digitized by the day, the need for on-demand scalability and rapid innovation continues to increase. We believe our industry-leading solutions on enterprise class Oracle Cloud Platform IaaS will offer financial institutions an unparalleled flexibility and confidence to design their cloud migration.”

"The integration of ENVIRONMINT with Oracle IaaS combines the rich functionality of ENVIRONMINT with the convenience of cloud delivery, so customers can build their Oracle solutions even more quickly and efficiently”, says Matt Tuohey, Director of LimePoint. “With ENVIRONMINT’s unique ability to detect and fix issues before they impact the business, customers can accelerate innovation and business value, with the added benefit of peace of mind – a rarity in competitive and dynamic markets.”

“Version 1 is delighted to be an early partner for the Oracle IaaS offering,” said Ken MacMahon, Version 1 Head of Oracle Capability. “We are very excited about the value that end-to-end Oracle Cloud (IaaS-PaaS-SaaS) can deliver for our Enterprise customer base. Oracle IaaS gives customers the opportunity to utilize elastic compute and storage within the security and control of the Oracle Cloud with support from experienced cloud integrators like Version 1. We are anticipating strong adoption of Oracle IaaS across the traditional and non-traditional install base which makes for exciting times for Oracle, its customers and partners alike.”