Mission-Critical Data Oracle Globally Distributed Database with RAFT: Oracle Globally Distributed Database allows data in the cloud to be stored across multiple physical databases in multiple ...

Oracle's approach is to store everything—mailboxes, e-mail, attachments, even voice mail and faxes—in one relational database instead of separate data stores on multiple servers.

Oracle boasts the Public Cloud will provide “all the productivity of Java, without the IT,” and “the Oracle database you love, now in the cloud.” “Beware of false clouds,” Ellison warned.