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What is OCI?

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracles's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform which combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control, security, and predictability of on-premises infrastructure.

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OCI Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features OCI has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 374 ratings of OCI's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

    The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA

    Category average: 8.5

  • Dynamic scaling

    Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs

    Category average: 8.8

  • Elastic load balancing

    Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers

    Category average: 9

Areas for Improvement

  • Monitoring tools

    Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected

    Category average: 7.7

  • Operating system support

    Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images

    Category average: 8.3

  • Pre-configured templates

    Pre-defined templates for virtual machines

    Category average: 7.9

Who Buys & Uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

OCI Reviews

What users are saying about OCI.
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Pros

  • Robust scalability and elasticity for compute and storage resources
  • Reliable and autonomous database services, including Autonomous Data Warehouse
  • Competitive and transparent pricing model, including a useful free tier

Cons

  • Deficiencies in customer support responsiveness and quality
  • Extensive but often confusing documentation
  • Limitations in certain service capabilities, such as messaging queues

Enterprise Database Cloud Platform for Global Supply Chain Management

Incentivized
RaviShankar SundaresanView profile
Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect in Information Technology at Blue Yonder (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have hosted our Mission Critical Global Supply Chain Management Applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Platform by utilizing OCI services such as Oracle OCI IaaS VM, Oracle DB PaaS service. Also, we have created the Storage buckets with critical and secured data which is essential for our global supply chain management SaaS customers across the world.

Pros

  • IAAS VM's
  • Large size Storage buckets with Auto Tiering enabled
  • Oracle Database

Cons

  • User interface need finetuning
  • More Support for serverless
  • Container support
  • Need Flexible SaaS Offerings

Return on Investment

  • Improved the time to launch new features in supply chain solutions
  • Data Security
  • Fully Scalable

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft SQL Server

Other Software Used

ServiceNow IT Asset Management, Microsoft Azure, Jira Service Management

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Oracle Database Services.

Incentivized
Sharang DwivediView profile
Database Engineer in Information Technology at Giesecke+Devrient (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The main reason for using the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the Oracle database services provided in OCI like Autonomous database, Oracle Base Service and Exadata etc. Oracle is putting lots of innovations in it's Oracle database running into OCI and features being released first in the Oracle cloud. For our product cloud journey we were looking for the best place to run the Oracle database.

Pros

  • Autonomous database.
  • Oracle Database Base service.
  • We can start with the small size of the Oracle Database scale-up as demand grows as opposed to the On-Premise Oracle Database setup.
  • No upfront investment in Oracle Database.
  • The latest and greatest feature is firstly available in the OCI for Oracle Database.

Cons

  • Costs are still high for using the Oracle Database.
  • Oracle Cloud is still lacking lots of good features which is available in the clouds like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • There should be open-source options & services available in the OCI.

Return on Investment

  • It is not a good option if your application uses a database other than Oracle.
  • Limited open-source features in OCI creates vendor lock issue.
  • Limited options are available as compared with Azure and AWS.

Alternatives Considered

Azure Cloud Services

Other Software Used

Oracle Autonomous Database, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Exadata

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am fairly new to using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in my team. I started learning and using it when the requirement in my team was raised for many reason like scalability, pricing flexibility and security for oracle servers. We use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for the pre-prod and Prod servers. Oracle provides a nice feasibility to manage VM instance and solutions for the resolving issues and growing need of business. So far its been a great experience.

Pros

  • Sacalibitly
  • Management
  • Availability
  • Cost Saving

Cons

  • Support team
  • Guide Documents

Return on Investment

  • OCI maintains an extensive compliance program
  • Data is encrypted for each customer
  • Customers can control the data they store

Other Software Used

Jenkins, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Microsoft Visual Studio

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - The Best Cloud Partner in todays world

Incentivized
Shivanand Labbi
Senior software engineer in Information Technology at Manhattan (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as our cloud provider for one of the biggest supply chain provider organizations in the world. All our 500+ customers are hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and everything is going as expected with it. Initially, we never had our own infra so we were dependent on customers' owned infra and managing each infrastructure from customer to customer for us was a critical task. So with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we hosted all our applications in one place and we are giving them as a SAAS product.

Pros

  • More Reliability and especially Oracle Database
  • Pricing is really impressive
  • UI is very easy to manage and has explanation for each step
  • Easily integrated to other clouds as well

Cons

  • They should introduce messaging queue like pub/sub or sqs
  • When major outage comes we see delay in communication from them
  • Customer support needs an improvement
  • MySQL and some more services

Return on Investment

  • First it generated a lot of income as we provide full service as SAAS.
  • Since we have all customers on one cloud, managing and applying fixes is very easy for us.
  • Customers are also happy because they had to spend a lot of money on having their own infra and managing that.

Alternatives Considered

Google Cloud Platform, AWS Cloud9 and Azure Cloud Services

Other Software Used

Azure Cloud Services, Splunk AppDynamics, Google Kubernetes Engine, IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM webMethods, Jenkins

Usability

Exploring New Horizons: Navigating Innovation with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Incentivized
Johanes SiregarView profile
Risk Insight Product in Information Technology at Telkomsel (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a virtualized environment to provide a save environment for testing new and emerging communication services like Virtual Private Network (VPN), Unified Communications (UC), or other tailored service offerings, which promotes rapid and agile service innovation and deployment leading to enhanced customer experiences and operational efficiency improvements.

Pros

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Network Function Virtualization provides a secure and scalable environment for experimentation which enable performance and feasibility assessment of a service
  • Robust Security Features, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) and encryption
  • Ability to scale resource up or down on-demand eliminating significant upfront costs

Cons

  • Uniformity in design and user experience across all services to improve usability
  • more comprehensive step-by-step guides and usecase-specific tutorials
  • built-in cost monitoring enhancement for more proactive and control in expenses management

Return on Investment

  • Utilizing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure we can reduce time-to-market for new services by 30%
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure automation tools improves profitability by reducing operating costs by 25%
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure robust security controls and compliance certifications are instrumental in mitigating risk which evidence with a 40% decrease in security incicents-related costs

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure

Other Software Used

Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Apache Spark, GitLab, Microsoft Power BI, Promethium Data Navigation System

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