Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs Western Digital ActiveScale

Likelihood to Recommend

Compared to AWS Oracle is slightly more cost-effective, especially when the implementation doesn't require a wide range of services. The out of the box functionality is minimal compared to AWS or Azure. The technology is advanced especially when it comes to hosting the database. Customer support is not up to the mark compared to other vendors.

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Sirish Vadala

Applications Developer Information Technology Specialist

Office of Legislative Counsel State of CaliforniaInformation Services, 501-1000 employees

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Enterprise grade organizations with B2B clientele would be served well by using this product. It alleviates the need for an on-premise storage solution by offering a cloud-based alternative. Smaller organizations with less data capacity needs would be better served with an in-house solution, unless they come out with more reasonable pricing down the road.

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Feature Rating Comparison

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Western Digital ActiveScale

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Dynamic scaling

Elastic load balancing

Pre-configured templates

Monitoring tools

Pre-defined machine images

Operating system support

Security controls

Pros

Reduction in cost as no scalability is required from an IT infrastructure side.
Pre-configured, engineered and simple in nature. This helps in reducing complexity on the IT side.
Less number of workers needed. Helps in effectively reducing man power and using comp.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Flexible data management options
Powerful data housing system storing trillions of bits of data seamlessly
Conveniently built in the cloud
Safe option for storing sensitive data

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Telecommunications Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Visual network designer would assistant in ensuring configuration matches intended design.
Automatic and seemless migration of VMs from OCI Classic to OCI would show that Oracle is taking cloud infrastructure service seriously.
Better, faster support. Traditional methods of filing SRs date back to the 1980s. Online realitime chat with support that know what they're doing is critical.
One click template image load from Oracle Cloud Marketplace is basic omission. It's available for oci-c but not oci.

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Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Lack of customization, though not much is needed with the out of the box solution
Better options for B2C customers
More flexible pricing plans

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Analyst in Information Technology

Telecommunications Company, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 9.1

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Western Digital ActiveScale 8.0

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It has been a fantastic solution, and now it is so highly integrated into our business, it would be difficult to imagine continuing to without it. It is part of our customer contracts as well, and it saves us from having to invest in the on-premise alternative to provide the required storage capacity.

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Usability

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 7.3

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doesn't have a mobile version

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Junior Assistant Developer

Technology Network ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support

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Western Digital ActiveScale 8.0

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Support has been wonderful. Representatives are generally empathetic and knowledgeable, and they’re quick to provide status and resolution.

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Alternatives Considered

Oracle Cloud is more cost efficient when compared to AWS, Google cloud, and Microsoft Azure. However, the enterprise user support is not up to the mark as compared to the others. Also, out of box features available are minimal and bare-bones.

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Sirish Vadala

Applications Developer Information Technology Specialist

Office of Legislative Counsel State of CaliforniaInformation Services, 501-1000 employees

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What sets Amplidata apart is the cloud-based storage capability. We’ve realized cost savings due to the fact that we are no longer housing the data on premise, and clients rest assured that they have greater visibility into their data.

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Return on Investment

We have an internal chargeback for infrastructure and we anticipate the cost factor will be neutral.
We have been impressed with the provisioning aspect of OCI and expect it to save on data center staff.
The scalability of OCI has been a timesaver for our environments.

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Ray Hirte

APEX (Peoplesoft) ERP Program Manager

Hennepin CountyGovernment Administration, 5001-10,000 employees

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Amplidata has enabled us to replace our on-premise data storage for many of our larger clients, thus reducing the cost to deploy and house this ourselves
Clients feel confident in storing their sensitive data with us knowing that they have full management and visibility at their fingertips
The ability to quickly scale allows us to meet the needs of clients of all sizes

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) vs Western Digital ActiveScale