Oracle’s transition from cloud critic to cloud convert is complete. The company launched a raft of new services Monday that it claims will provide enterprises with all the tools they need to run their operations in the cloud.

“We’re now able to call our cloud services complete. With today’s announcement, you can now move all your applications out of the data center and into the Oracle cloud,” Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison said during an event at Oracle’s headquarters.

With 24 new platform and infrastructure services introduced, Oracle now claims to be the only cloud provider offering a complete line of enterprise software services, platform services and infrastructure services, all under the Oracle Cloud Platform nameplate. It’s a big turnaround from several years ago, when Ellison dismissed the term “cloud” as a buzzword and a fad.

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