Gartner also noted Oracle's "high-pressure sales tactics" around selling IaaS, including software audits and threatening to dramatically raise database license costs for customers selecting other ...

"Oracle’s cloud IaaS is primarily an infrastructure foundation for its other businesses," Gartner noted. "Oracle is mainly targeting customers who want to run Oracle software on cloud IaaS ...

PaaS can be summarised as: A layer on top of IaaS, which provides the ability to run application software. Upon subscription, you are provided with access to application software. You don't have ...

In percentage terms, this is slightly lower than the November forecast of 11.2%. Global IT spending is estimated to rise by 9 ...