Oracle announces availability of Oracle Database 12c
Oracle announced the availability of the next-generation Oracle
Database 12c database, designed to improve overall operational agility
and effectiveness of businesses. The oracle database 12c provides a new
multitenant architecture on top of a fast, scalable, reliable and secure
database platform. By plugging into the cloud with Oracle Database 12c,
customers can improve the quality and performance of applications, save
time with maximum availability architecture and storage management and
simplify database consolidation by managing hundreds of databases as
one.
"The innovations in Oracle Database 12c were developed with our
customers' cloud requirements very much in mind," said Andrew Mendelsohn,
senior vice President, Database Server Technologies, Oracle. "The new
multitenant architecture makes it easier for customers to consolidate
their databases and securely manage many as one. It also offers
customers other capabilities for cloud computing such as simplified
provisioning, cloning and resource prioritization without resorting to
major application changes."
Available for download from Oracle Technology Networl (OTN), the
oracle database12c addresses the key challenges of customers who are
consolidating databases in a private cloud model by enabling greatly
improved efficiency and lower management costs, while retaining the
autonomy of separate databases. Application continuity complements
Oracle Real Application Clusters and masks application failures from
end-users by automatically replaying failed transactions.
The foundation of Oracle Public Cloud Services, Oracle Database 12c
can greatly benefit customers deploying private database clouds and
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors looking for the power of Oracle
Database in a secure multitenant model. Oracle Database 12c includes
more security innovations than any other previous Oracle database
release; helping customers address evolving threats and stringent data
privacy regulations. New redaction capabilities allow organizations to
protect sensitive data such as credit card numbers displayed in
applications - without changes to most applications. Sensitive data is
redacted at run-time based on pre-defined policies and account session
information. Oracle Database 12c also includes new Run-Time Privilege
Analysis, enabling organizations to identify privileges and roles
actually being used, helping revoke unnecessary privileges and enforce
least privileges with confidence that business operations will not be
disrupted.
Oracle Database 12c, optimized on SPARC and Intel(r) Xeon(r)
processors, introduces 500 additional features and is the result of
2,500 person-years of development and 1.2 million hours of testing, plus
an extensive deta program with Oracle's customers and partners.
Oracle Multitenant is a new feature of Oracle Database 12c, and
allows each database plugged into the new multitenant architecture to
look and feel like a standard Oracle Database to application; so
existing applications can run unchanged. The multitenant architecture
provides virtually instantaneous provisioning and cloning of databases,
which makes it an ideal platform for database test and development
clouds. By supporting multi-tenancy in the database tier, rather than
the application tier, Oracle Multitenant makes all ISV applications that
run on the Oracle Database ready for SaaS. Oracle Multitenant works with
all Oracle Database features.
Oracle Database 12c is also co-engineered with Oracle's world record
setting SPARC T5 servers. |
