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April 09, 2021
We're implemented Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for the services that needed to be always on initially. Nowadays, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is being used across the whole organization and being used by different departments and offering different services. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure allows to implement local and remote services, both providing a zero rate failure of these services.
- Easy management
- Always-on services
- Free training
- Development tools
- Better regional services (especially in Brazil--South/North/Center)
- Some of the services are not available in all regions
Yes - Being an avid user of all of these services--Oracle, Linux, Java, and MySQL--it only adds to be part of a user group. Being a member allows you receive fast responses about the issues you're trying to solve.
April 07, 2021
Both block and object storage are very useful to our business and our business needs. Oracle storage has several options and can support a number of our use cases. It is important for us to have some storage which supports NFS file systems and others that are not structured. We mostly use the basic tiers attached to our VMs but sometimes use higher performance options.
- It is highly durable so data is not lost
- The variety of tiers can fit many use cases
- Snapshot backups are easily created
- Could use more customizability for each storage service
- Can always improve the UI to maintain the services
- A more economical price point
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
March 26, 2021
Our entire organization is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (based on requirements). In our project, we worked on creating a new design for an application where we are moving our existing solutions to a cloud environment. We already have limited usage of [the] cloud. Now we are working on the enhancement phase of our application, where Oracle Cloud Infrastructure can perform much better than others, comparatively. We are working closely with Oracle-based products like Java and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Storage. Using OCI gives more confidence when it comes to performance. We also planned to implement RPA solutions to make the process effective.
- As we have seen, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is very stable
- Availability
- Resizing
- Support
- [The] user interface can be improved
- Templates
Yes - I am also part of Oracle user groups. It helps us to quickly identify the issues and resolve it with expert users and or with the Oracle user community. We cleared many doubts and got new ideas while using the Oracle user groups. I strongly recommend [it] to the user group for a quick resolution.
March 19, 2021
This system, in general, was implemented for the company to maintain order with the amount of data and information. As a food company, we have too much information regarding sales & customers. We have had favorable results using their service since we can keep our data safe. It is extremely spectacular to maintain a single structure where we can enter and search for the information we need or simply save that data safely and securely. It is a system that is implemented all over the web.
- Optimal structure and Really useful tool.
- A service that details each tool and its proper use.
- It is a service that can be installed quickly and that supports the computer and the oracle cloud service.
- It can be expensive.
- Oracle or third party help is needed to install.
We are using [Oracle Cloud Infrastructure] across the whole organization. Our legacy systems are running out of date. Most of our legacy systems are pretty old and single instance of failure without High Availability and Redundancy. And Performance is degrading.
- Oracle Database Exadata Cloud at Customer enables you to apply the combined power of Exadata and Oracle Cloud inside your own data center.
- Oracle Autonomous Database is availabe on Exadata
- Exadata Cloud at Customer Enterprise Edition Extreme Performance is a subscription model that includes all the features of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, plus all the Oracle Database Enterprise Manager Packs, and all Database Enterprise Edition Options.
- On Oracle OCI Console when any work request failure happens, there is not much detailed error information. It's hard to trouble shoot for the work request on the OCI Console.
- Submitting a SR is a pain everytime when we have OCI operation failures. There are supposed to be some function at live chat who can address instant OCI operation failures.
Not yet, but I'm interested in Oracle user groups - Toronto Oracle User Group
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
April 12, 2021
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is being used to support our Oracle Production and Test environments. It's being used across our whole organization. The main business problem addressed is the affordability, scalability, and reliability of our Oracle environment. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure products allow us to easily push out patches, assist our users, and scale up when needed - all at a great price!
- Reliability - we have not had any issues with downtime since we migrated.
- Scalability - the OCI environment provides options for additional modules and upgrades.
- Affordability - the features provided would cost so much more in a different environment.
- Reliance on Java in our current environment, though that's more to do with our older database.
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.
It is being used by departments based on the project and customer needs. OCI provides easy access to compute and storage infrastructure at the right cost and in the required regions.
- Reliable, affordable, and secure
- Helps the developers to set up dev nd and test env in cloud quickly and easily.
- Disaster recovery features and and backup options availability are excellent.
- $ 300 free credit for the month should be increased to 2 months so that the credit can be utilized by trying all available services.
- Needs more work in the AI and ML space with more services.
- More regions are needed so that the PII data of customers remains in the region.
Yes - Mumbai Java User Group
December 07, 2020
OCI offers multiple types of storage - Block Storage, File Storage, Object Storage. We use all these storage services based on the need. These are being used by all departments within an organization - kind of shared services. Block Volume storage offers up to 30K IOPS which is higher than most of the on-premises servers. IOPS can be decreased or increased based on the need and required performance. Also, block storage can be encrypted to meet multiple compliance requirements. The business problem that can be solved with block storage is to improve application performance. File Storage solves the problem of shared folders and plays a key role in HA applications. Object Storage is cheaper than competitors and provides durable storage across the organization.
- Block Volume provides durability and stability to data. IOPS can be changed on the fly. Always stay true to the promised performance.
- Block Volume can be encrypted with ease to meet compliance. Can also be easily integrated with OCI vault service for extra security.
- Object Storage and File Storage are other forms of storage that are secure and extremely easy to configure. FSS is one of the best in the industry when it comes to reliability and performance.
- SSD block volumes are persistent in OCI unlike many other clouds.
- SSD's are offered only on certain instance types. This should really be expanded to all instance types.
- There is only one type of Block Volume that covers all the scenarios. Like AWS, more storage types may pave the path to cheaper alternatives.
- Object Storage does not have multiple tiers like AWS. All OCI got is Standard and Archive. Though Standard is cheaper than S3 standard, introducing multiple tiers may meet more use-cases.
Not yet, but I'm interested in Oracle user groups - I am interested in Cloud Infrastructure groups. I am a certified AWS professional, OCI professional, and GCP Associate.
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 07, 2020
We use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute for spinning up Linux and Windows Server instances to provide development, preproduction, and UAT environments for the individuals to test their web applications to ensure they're working correctly, enhance production delivery, and create instances without worrying about infrastructure.
- Secure access to your instance
- Remotely accessible
- Flexibility to chose your operating system without worrying about infrastructure
- Allows full network isolation, leading to uncompromising workloads
- Should focus on lowering costs on Windows Server computing instance
- Very limited support for IIS web applications
- Not recommended for beginners (requires extensive industry experience)
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 11, 2020
Have used and also currently using OCI Compute for testing, evaluation and deployment of different software. Definitely handy to use with a variety of distros in the service to deploy software across various versions to test and evaluate software. Always free cloud compute is easy and fast to setup and very beginner friendly.
- Robust Creation and deployment
- Various number of OS available
- Easy to integrate with services
- Cloud generated and managed keys are missing, it is hectic to create and allot a key for SSH.
- Free tier bandwidth is comparatively low relative to other clouds.
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
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.
September 19, 2019
We use this for multiple products and I use it to work on the Oracle Analytics Cloud - Essbase product. It was really good in terms of updating/upgrading products. We don't need to do anything as everything will be taken care of by Oracle. But, the UI should've been better for Oracle Analytics Cloud - Essbase.
- Hassle-free patch updates.
- Provides an extra layer of security.
- We can opt to work with any of the Oracle products.
- Definitely there should be some UI improvements.
- File manipulation is complex.
- Not sure if we can consider implementing the bulk copy/move across the folders in Oracle Cloud.
September 18, 2019
We are evaluating IAAS solutions, and we were interested in Oracle Cloud.
- High-end machines: they are very fast and store data very fast.
- Fast storage
- The support is terrible: for the implementation process, if there is a problem, it can take days and multiple calls to get an answer—even when you have a mission-critical issue.
- The response time to get an issue addressed is terrible.
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
September 16, 2019
It is used to put the Oracle HTTP Server for our POS. It's used only by the IT department and specifically by the channels section. The problems we have include the permissions on OHS configuration files using OPC users. Also, Oracle needs to make a GUI for administrating instead of always using the commands. Sometimes we have unknown issues sent to support and are solved by only restarting the server.
- When we have issues with OTD which is not serving our needs, it offered a solution to put OHS instead of OTD.
- I would like to see an administration GUI instead of the command line.
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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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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
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.
What are Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's top competitors?
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Engine are common alternatives for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
What is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's best feature?
Reviewers rate Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime highest, with a score of 8.6.
Who uses Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
The most common users of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are Enterprises from the Information Technology & Services industry.