A wide variety of citizen-facing applications and UK public sector back office systems are based on Oracle’s database technology.
Skyscape Cloud Services Limited has announced the launch of its new cloud platform, based on Oracle’s Virtual Machine (OVM) technology. Skyscape’s Oracle platform will ensure that its public sector customers can host their workloads on Skyscape’s secure platform, while meeting the stringent licensing and hardware requirements specified by Oracle’s software solutions.
A wide variety of citizen-facing applications and UK public sector back office systems are based on Oracle’s database technology. Traditionally these systems require dedicated hardware which not only involves initial capital investment but also poses a challenge in terms of flexibility and capacity management — if more capacity is required, so is more hardware which takes time and resource to put in place. The very specific hardware and licensing requirements associated with Oracle solutions also make it difficult for public sector organizations to change hosting suppliers or deploy a diverse solution hosted across two platforms. Skyscape’s new Oracle platform provides a solution to these problems. Its customers can host their Oracle-based services with Skyscape and therefore realize the benefits of true cloud hosting – increased agility and consumption-based pricing as well as significantly reduced costs as the need for investment in hardware is removed. All while complying with Oracle’s licensing requirements.