Private cloud adoption growing for Oracle users

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Despite Oracle's relatively late entrance into the cloud computing race, many of its users are deploying private clouds or have plans to do so, a new study by the Independent Oracle Users Group found.

According to a survey of 267 IT professionals and data managers conducted by Unisphere Research, 29 percent of organizations are currently using private clouds, and 37 percent said they are using a private cloud for some workload processing or infrastructure service.

Private cloud deployments are expected to increase in the next 12 months as more companies take advantage of Platform-as-a-Service offerings, such as database and middleware capabilities, the report found.

"We expect the trend to private cloud to continue intensifying," said Unisphere analyst Joseph McKendrick. "Users who are relatively mature in their use of private cloud and who have invested more significantly are reaping cost savings by eliminating duplication, standardizing for operational efficiency and through higher asset utilization."

Private cloud computing continues to be more popular than public cloud computing as businesses are concerned with the security of the public cloud. According to an IDC report, the private cloud server market is expected to hit $11.8 billion 2014, compared to $718 million for the public cloud, Information Management reports.