Item: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Rating: 8
Author: Krishan Mohil

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

Very useful since using Oracle applications on-premises; moving to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure heavily reduced administrative and other costs
Useful with scale-up and scale-down feature to reduce the cost immediately after the initial use
Easy on patching, security, and backups
For integration with other services or for applications other than Oracle, it's challenging and time consuming

Membership in Oracle User Groups

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.

Oracle University Experience

During my initial years, I had amazing experiences working through Oracle University and getting certified. I have not used it recently.

Alternatives Considered

Since we had existing Oracle applications on premises and have very little exposure with other application or use cases, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was an ideal choice to go with and get the maximum return out of it.

Key Insights

Do you think Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's feature set?

Did Oracle Cloud Infrastructure live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure go as expected?

Would you buy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure again?

Yes

Other Software Used

AWS Auto Scaling, Google Cloud Datastore, AWS Serverless Application Repository

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have existing on-premises Oracle applications, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure would be an ideal solution to address reducing costs, increasing performance, improving availability, heightening security, adding auto patching, creating backups and providing your business an easy way to upgrade applications. Importantly, it helps eliminate some of the administrative costs.

If you have a combination of Oracle and other applications with heavy or low usage, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure might not help you or involve lots of initial gaps until Oracle Cloud Infrastructure comes up with many more upgrades or features to connect.

Easy Migration, Reduced Costs

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure