Oracle is adding new options to its public cloud infrastructure that provide better flexibility, including a flexible load balancer.

The company relies on colocation to host its public cloud and offers a hybrid cloud solution that can be hosted in the same manner.

Oracle said it will launch bare-metal and VM instances on its cloud early next year.

Larry Ellison and Donald Trump, both billionaires known for their love of deals, finally pulled one off together.

Making TikTok switch to Oracle as its US cloud provider would be less like US and more like China.

Terms of the deal are still in flux, a source told Bloomberg, but part of it could be TikTok US moving from AWS and Google Cloud to Oracle Cloud.

It argued that the DoD unfairly and unnecessarily tailored the contract requirements for AWS and Azure.

The company’s possible pursuit of a deal for the social network, owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd., makes more sense in light of Oracle’s desire to build up its cloud-computing and consumer-data businesses.

Oracle says its new VMware service provides customers with the same experience whether on its cloud or on-premises.

Larry Ellison says you can have your own, full-fledged Oracle cloud region, behind your own firewall.