It seems to me that Oracle is doing well in cloud, may not be too long before they beat the number 4 Google.
What would a bunch of extremely legacy technology--and this is a great example, between OS-supported virtualization in Windows and OS X getting good and virtualization solutions having already been just fine on Linux for a long time, VirtualBox hasn't had a meaningful reason to exist for going on five years now--and the worst reputation in the industry do to leapfrog Google Cloud? (If they're even actually "number 4" in the first place.)
From article:
- Implemented support for importing a virtual machine from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Extended support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, allowing the creation of multiple virtual machines without re-uploading. Also added option to export a VM to the cloud using the more efficient variant "paravirtialized", and to specify free-form tags for cloud images
So they don't seem to be very serious about multi-tenancy?
(Spectre and Meltdown are more or less considered the nails in the coffin of Xen para-virtualisation for multi-tenant environments).
The "massive enterprise company" I work for doesn't use Oracle IdM ...
It was used at the previous company I worked for, but it had endless problems and I think it was only bought as part of a very badly-run "buy an expensive 'enterprise content management platform and then not use it properly' initiative".
It's main feature seemed to be to import identities from LDAP servers into an Oracle database fronted by a very poorly performing non-compliant LDAP server (or, you could say, selling Oracle Database licenses).
OIM certainly has much more features, and just by the virtue of being the largest/supported by the largest tech company, tends to have the most features and integrations of any IdM solution, which is another reason it’s favored by large companies that actually need that scale. Other companies with smaller numbers of people or less need for edge-case integrations typically go with something more user-friendly like SailPoint (and others are still stuck on IdM solutions of yesteryear like some of MS’s old offerings).
Genuinely curious. As much as I enjoy bashing Oracle, I like learning new things about technology :-).
Competitors like SailPoint are typically more user friendly, easier to implement (as long as your implementation only integrates with common apps and doesn’t require deep customization) and comes from a generally friendlier software company, but it isn’t able to keep up performance/stability wise once you start moving above 100k-ish managed users.
The performance landscape is changing slightly now that other IdM providers are taking advantage of clouds as well for better scaling, but it’s taking some time for them to rearchitect applications to fully do so.