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December 05, 2020
I'm using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to create POC (proof of concept) for different solutions and services in the projects I'm currently involved. I usually employ the Free Tier offer to create one or two Oracle Database instances, and also volume storage and compute instances to install and configure the components I need to test / demonstrate.
- The Free Tier offer allows to test basic configurations for Free
- Easy to configure and deploy. Takes less than 10 minutes to create an Oracle Database instance
- Really wide range of services available
- More integration with other cloud solutions (besides Azure) would be great
Yes - I'm a member of AROUG (Argentina Oracle User Group) and I really value the chance of sharing experiences with members of the group and with the entire community. I've participated since 2013 in former OTN Latin America Tour as a speaker, both in Argentina and Uruguay, and this year even at global level since the tour was done online
December 12, 2020
We used Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for our project, including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse. It's always easier when you are using existing, on-premises Oracle applications to migrate into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for higher performance and lower costs. This addressed reduced cost, high performance, high availability, security, auto patching, backups, and easy pathway to upgrade applications.
- Easy and cost effective for customers to migrate on-premises Oracle applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure reduced overhead and operational costs, investments in hardware, and associated maintenance
- Run large workloads at scale without a jump in pricing
- Ability to scale to provide as much (or as little) compute power and storage as you require
- Existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components are not enough to implement all cloud solutions
- UI navigation needs improvement
- The user interface has glitches and needs tags to be added to create services
- Integration with other tools or cloud solutions is not straightforward or not available
- Load balancing capability has limited functionality
Yes - I am a member of Oracle and MySQL, and have been working with Oracle since beginning of my carrier. It's very, very useful--getting insights from other people on problems is always a plus to overcome challenges.
December 03, 2020
We host all our Oracle PeopleSoft instances on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Earlier, we hosted them on the Amazon Web Services. We moved to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure due to the cost-effectiveness of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Return on Investment has been great with Oracle cloud infrastructure compared to the AWS. We also host many of our customers on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and provide managed services.
- The return on investment has been great with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compared to the AWS.
- Hosting ERP systems on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is very cost effective.
- The new user interface has a lot of glitches and needs a lot of tags to be added to create services
- The reliability is not very good - instances are not available sometimes
Yes - Oracle Applications and Technology user group, Quest, Higher Ed user groups
February 05, 2021
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is used throughout my organization. We are working on many financial clients like banking and insurance, where data and security is utmost important, and we also need high computing power to access these/interacting with the on premises network. I am currently in a project where we need to move/integrate on premises application with some client application.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure accepts large volume of data.
- All the software as a service items works well. To be simple adaptability.
- Implementation in much easier for beginner level users.
- Issues with database connectivity.
- Interfaces can be improved.
- We should customize what we need.
- Need more templates.
Yes - Yes. I am part of Oracle and Java user groups where we interact with expert users to solve our problems, which makes the process very smooth and easier. User group will help us quickly understand the issues with experts. Instead of waiting for the support team from Oracle, we can interact with user who face similar issues. They can provide idea[s] or suggestions for our problems, which helps to do things better.
December 23, 2020
My Banking Customer have migrated from legacy on-premise infrastructure to ORACLE Cloud Infrastructure OCI.In fact this is an Oracle SAAS (software as a service) offering / implementation: end-to-end right from infrastructure, virtualization layer, Operating System, Application Server (middle-ware tier), Orchestration, Database, Core banking solution (Oracle Lending product) as been delivered. Customer is delighted because of Consumption based pricing model which is very much cost effective and reliable when compared with any other Cloud provider in the market.
- Real time dynamic dashboard (Oracle Managed Cloud dashboard) in order to monitor your SLAs (Service Level Agreements) various graphs / charts given in a widget for various features like Monitoring Application Server health, Database Server health checks.
- The paramount is AUTO-SCALING feature in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, during Black Friday and Cyber Monday we noticed huge volumes of request incoming which resulted in customer on-boarding without any Dollar loss. The Load Balancer up-scaled implicitly. At any given point of time the elasticity of the resources can be easily extended.
- Managed services like Data guard makes the DB most reliable.
- OCI global foot print having 21 OCI Regions live across the globe, single AD regions sooner should have with multiple ADs (Availability Domains).
Not yet, but I'm interested in Oracle user groups
December 04, 2020
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is used by the user profile and product catalog department of my company's e-commerce arm. We adopted Oracle Public Cloud to deploy Oracle services like Java Cloud Service, ExaData, etc. in the Cloud.
Since JCS is Oracle's SaaS extension to reduce the complexity associated with deploying and maintaining enterprise Java applications, we decided to deploy in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to ensure a better and seamless vendor service
Since JCS is Oracle's SaaS extension to reduce the complexity associated with deploying and maintaining enterprise Java applications, we decided to deploy in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to ensure a better and seamless vendor service
- Works well with Oracle's SaaS
- Oracle Cloud VMware Solution delivers the same VMware experience that enterprises have on premises
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has cloud interoperability partnership with Microsoft Azure
- UI navigation needs some improvement
- Load balancing in OCI has limited functionality; it can be improved a lot
- Existing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components are not enough to implement all cloud solutions
December 03, 2020
It is heavily used by our company. Being Oracle Partners helps our customers migrate to OCI and implement their solution.
- Ease of use
- Ease of implementation
- Robust and secure
- Seen some network issues
- There have been malware attacks
- Credit monitoring app on the phone
Yes - Oracle user group. This keeps me updated on the latest products released.
- Online training
Yes - Always on the latest versions
February 07, 2020
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is used across our organization to host our IAAS and PAAS resources and hence reduce the footprint of physical servers. Scalability and the speed of provisioning resources was an issue before but are no longer a problem with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Ease of scalability
- Ease of resource provisioning
- When initially launched, the solution was not compatible with EBS.
- Integration with other tools such as WAF/IDCS is not straightforward.
December 30, 2019
We provide a fast backbone for hybrid clouds. OCI is part of our hybrid cloud solution.
- Great designed API/SDK.
- Stable infrastructure.
- Regional IP support.
- UI navigation needs some improvement - Network and computer should be easy to jump between.
- Lacking filtering function in instance UI.
- The instance summary page should show IP for each instance so that the user does not need to click each one to see IP.
Not yet, but I'm interested in Oracle user groups
Currently, we use OCI for hosting our BI-related applications. All our data warehouse and BI applications are hosted in OCI CLassic. Applications are in OAC. Our BI apps are used across the organization on a daily basis and are critical for month-end and quarter-end reports. It is a centralized data warehouse loading data ETLs from different boundry systems.
- Ease of provisioning.
- Scalability to add CPUs or storage without depending on the infra team.
- Visual builder is a great tool for end-users.
- There are few limitations while extended file storage associated with database systems and is causing backup issues.
- Room for improvement on object-level cloning in the database.
Not yet, but I'm interested in Oracle user groups
November 12, 2019
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is used for some of the R&D related, non-customer facing workloads including applications for AI / Deep learning training in the cloud (OCI). It is currently not used for consumer facing application workloads as our use is recent.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) was straightforward and easy to use to deploy containerized applications in Oracle Cloud (OCI) that makes it one of the top choices if you are already using OCI.
- OKE can be accessed using the Kubernetes dashboard which is more or less the gold standard for Kubernetes based container deployments makes it easy to administer.
- OKE is fully managed by Oracle and resides in the cloud that keeps the cost to manage the containers low without need for a lot of customization for performance.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is a fully managed service that makes it a little hard sometimes to fine tune HPC workloads, for example AI/Deep learning training where a lot of data transfer and compute is needed.
- The initial setup can certainly be improved with less steps to make it faster and easier to deploy compared to the competition, for example Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Documentation and best practice documentation for OKE can be improved especially since there are not a lot of customer references available for large scale deployments that need fine tuned performance.
January 17, 2020
Our company is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as our main Infrastructure, as a service solution for the majority of our products. Oracle online services high-level APIs enable us to control operating systems, storage, and deployed applications, without managing or controlling the underlying physical cloud infrastructure hardware. Finally, all services can be provisioned completely on-demand, over the Internet.
- Thanks to Ravello, deployment of existing VMware and KVM based data center workloads is possible.
- It makes it very easy to monitor the path between users and resources to react to changes and eventual outages.
- Load balancing capability has somewhat limited functionality.
- Binary type for WebSockets protocol is not supported.
We started using Oracle Govt Cloud Gen1 as a pilot since it's inception and we were very new to this cloud environment at the time. We had significant issues using Oracle Cloud Gen1. Also, due to lack of support from Oracle and lack of understanding from our staff, we had to cancel our efforts to pilot in the cloud. Our experience was very painful and we decided not to use Gen1.
Moving forward, when Oracle introduced Gen2 cloud it looked very promising. We are in the process of getting Oracle Cloud Gen2 for piloting a few applications and based on our experience will decide to migrate the rest of the apps.
Moving forward, when Oracle introduced Gen2 cloud it looked very promising. We are in the process of getting Oracle Cloud Gen2 for piloting a few applications and based on our experience will decide to migrate the rest of the apps.
- Autonomous is a great feature.
- We can focus more on business needs and less on operations.
- Very scalable environment.
- Provide OEM by default if you create DB instance.
- Multitenant setup.
Oracle Identity and Access Management is the single system being used in our company for all identity and access management related uses. It was internally deployed for all application accesses and providing employees the needed access to the applications. It is being used by all the managers to provide access for their teams and other users to have access to the internal company applications.
- Easy to use, great user interface and available on all interfaces like web and mobile.
- It is on the cloud, so it's always available.
- Quick access to the application.
- Need better management on access parts of the application.
- Need interfaces and integration with other company infrastructure.
- Better admin UI and control.
Not yet, but I'm interested in Oracle user groups
February 28, 2019
My organization planned to migrate from legacy systems for better scalability, faster development, better compliance, and robust security. Initially, we had issues with networking during set up. It's a perfect cloud interface match for existing PeopleSoft systems. The pricing model is very cost efficient and easy to understand. It took some time to get trained, but once on board, it was a smooth ride.
- Easy integration with existing PeopleSoft systems.
- The volume of data that can be created and attached to a new or existing instance.
- Extremely cost effective to build a dedicated platform with a lot of memory and computing power.
- Improved support from Oracle to resolve any issues with the configuration for enterprise-level customers.
- Some of the cloud solutions are bare-bones and not as efficient when compared to what AWS offers.
- Existing components are insufficient to implement all solutions successfully.
Currently, we are using the OCI for our PeopleSoft Upgrade Manager (PUM) and our PeopleSoft demo databases. We are evaluating the network set up and firewall rules we can apply to the environment. We are planning on putting all our non-prod environments into OCI. PeopleSoft is an enterprise application so for testing, it will be used across the organization as well as for DR/BC in the future. For our business, we are hoping it will be cost neutral and provide easy provisioning for our environments as well as scalability for our non-prod environments.
- Provisioning for environments
- Scalability for our environments
- Data backup
- Understanding what services will incur additional charges when you set up the environment not after the charges start to be incurred.
- Better PeopleSoft support for lift and shift. We are having a consultant help us with the move.
Yes - I am a member of the Higher Education User Group HEUG, Quest International User Group and Upper Midwest Regional User Group.
Insight into what is coming with some small ability to set the direction of the PeopleSoft direction of Oracle. My staff have also used these groups to make a network across the US with other government agencies. these connections have helped us share information as well as deployment strategies. For example through one of our user groups we were able to get the different fields they were using for DB encryption as well as the process they used to encrypt their DB. This saved us a lot of time and energy to re-invent the wheel. We have also gotten good information from different private sector companies around security and 3rd party products.
Insight into what is coming with some small ability to set the direction of the PeopleSoft direction of Oracle. My staff have also used these groups to make a network across the US with other government agencies. these connections have helped us share information as well as deployment strategies. For example through one of our user groups we were able to get the different fields they were using for DB encryption as well as the process they used to encrypt their DB. This saved us a lot of time and energy to re-invent the wheel. We have also gotten good information from different private sector companies around security and 3rd party products.
April 27, 2018
We are a small consulting software services company that implements custom APEX applications for the Romanian market. We use Oracle IaaS for our developing environments and also for some of the production environments. Usually, these are internal applications for 5-20 users on an Oracle stack, but not only, we also have some WordPress/Drupal instances running on Oracle IaaS.
- a la lot of distinct services that instantiate Oracle products in the cloud
- a good interface that offers many features
- reliable SLA and good global content network delivery
- a good prices and possibility to migrate licenses in cloud
- still buggy on some screens
- a little bit behind with versions of software, but they usually make upgrades once in a trimester
- can take time to learn the documentation, but it has plenty
Yes - I am a member of the Romanian Oracle User Group.
I follow up with Romanian Oracle User Groups events and I learn a lot from their speakers.
I follow up with Romanian Oracle User Groups events and I learn a lot from their speakers.
October 11, 2017
We are using Oracle Cloud IaaS across the whole organization to deliver new products for clients quickly.
It really helps avoid the need to procure additional hardware in order to initiate projects.
It really helps avoid the need to procure additional hardware in order to initiate projects.
- Rapid development
- Flexible pricing
- Agile
- Ease of use
- Centralized deployment
November 16, 2018
[It's] Used internally to provide access to Oracle applications for all our consultants for development, design, training, demo, and pre-sales work.
- The only supported platform supported by PeopleSoft Cloud Manager
- Consistent and predictable performance
- Underlying technology design is built for resilience and performance.
- 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.
Yes - I am a member of the UK Oracle User Group.
Exposure to customer stories and experiences
Exposure to customer stories and experiences
We are using Oracle Cloud in development environments, production environment for internal applications and demonstrative and proof of concept environments. Mostly I like its actionable insight reports and customizable dashboards.
- It is easier to operate a workload without having to buy, manage and support the underlying infrastructure.
- It is reliable, fast, quick to access and easy to customize.
- Billing can become a problem due to the fact that it is extremely granular and is broken out to reflect the precise usage of services.
June 20, 2016
IaaS (Infrastructure As a Service) is being used to upgrade from our current ERP system to the next one which is entirely cloud based. Our servers(web, application, database, monitoring servers etc. )will be maintained on Oracle's cloud infrastructure. Whether this will be a pubilic or private cloud will depend on type of environment, stake holder's involved and facilities offered for both these clouds.
- 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.
- IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service) is not a customizable solution. It's a pre-configured system which sometimes fits in customer expectation but largely differs in diversity.
- More improvements are being worked on by Oracle to improve cloud computing, Oracle systems do not share computing resources and need to be scaled in those areas.
- Third, Oracle private clouds are not delivered “as-a-service”. This solution is a rental which can be modified, but is nonetheless bound by hardware and software parameters, for a specified rental period.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure combines the utility of public cloud with the granular control of on-premises infrastructure to deliver cloud infrastructure services. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure implements “off-box” or isolated network virtualization, which takes network and IO virtualization out of the server stack and puts it in the network. As a result, customers can provision self-service, dedicated hosts with no hypervisor overhead, noisy neighbors, or shared resources with a full software-defined layer 3 network topology. In addition, off-box network virtualization enables running bare-metal hosts side-by-side with any class of systems – from Virtual Machines to containers to optimized database systems like Oracle Exadata – all using the same set of APIs. With Oracle Cloud, customers can leverage unique Exadata capabilities (millions of IOPS, IO prioritization, columnar compression etc.) together with the cloud-native security and governance capabilities of a layer 3 virtual cloud network.
Since its launch in 2016, Oracle Cloud has expanded to more than 50 core services available in 24 cloud regions worldwide with a plan to reach 36 total regions by the end of 2020.
For more information visit:
https://www.oracle.com/cloud
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/economics/
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/architecture-center.html
Categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Since its launch in 2016, Oracle Cloud has expanded to more than 50 core services available in 24 cloud regions worldwide with a plan to reach 36 total regions by the end of 2020.
For more information visit:
https://www.oracle.com/cloud
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/economics/
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/architecture-center.html
Categories: Infrastructure-as-a-Service
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Competitors
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Pricing
- Has featureFree Trial Available?Yes
- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?No
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is built for enterprises looking for higher performance, consistently lower costs, and easier cloud migration for their existing on-premises applications. OCI is consistently less expensive than AWS for a wide range of popular cloud workloads for several reasons: (1) in the area of networking, charges for outbound bandwidth are 74% less expensive than AWS, (2) for compute, Oracle delivers > 2X better price/performance over AWS for general purpose and memory-optimized instances. (3) for HPC workloads, AWS provides similar performance to Oracle, but is 44% more expensive and provides no local SSDs, half the RAM, no RDMS networking, and no performance SLA, and (4) for block storage, OCI offers as much as 20X the IOPS performance of AWS for less than half the cost. Check out these links to learn more: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/economics/ https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/workload-estimator/index.html
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