Inside sales has been the high-growth area of sales and lead generation since the market crash of 2008 when companies scaled back travel and high cost positions in favor of a new generation of sales people, a high velocity business model, and leveraged affordable technology that companies rent instead of buy.
In the database area, Ellison recently noted that a new generation of portable databases will allow multiple tenants to securely coexist in the same database while also offering full support for virtualization.