Oracle Cloud
November 15, 2018
Oracle Cloud
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Service Cloud
We are planning on moving all our non-production environments to the cloud in 2019. Currently we are just experimenting with PeopleSoft PUM and demo databases. Since all of our environments are copies of prod we need to be comfortable with the security and how it works in the cloud before we will move any environments that has county data in it. We are ensuring the data connection and our firewall rules can be expanded to include our cloud environments and our security team feels it's a secure environment to be in. We are not making this journey alone we are getting an implementation partner to help us with the setup and setting up the roles for administering the cloud. We have a central network team that will need access to the environments to ensure that our firewall rules are enabled in the cloud.
- Provisioning environments has been very easy for us, happening in a matter of minutes.
- Backing up data from our demo environments has been easy and quick.
- So far setting up admin roles for high level admins has been pretty easy.
- Notifications for overages has been really easy
- Setting up thresholds for environments to minimize overages
- Getting our cloud rep from Oracle was a little challenging, they wanted us to set up the cloud quickly so they could get paid then it was a little more difficult to get help. Granted we are not currently a big player in the cloud game with only a spend of $150K for this year.
- We have an internal chargeback for servers and we anticipate that the cloud will save us some money or be cost neutral for us.
- We plan to see a reduction in the need for data center staff and server provisioning as we move more environments to the cloud.
- We are now responsible for our own destiny with the ability to ramp up and down our servers based on need. We can also monitor our costs more closely with the metered service and turn off the environments when we are not using them.
We haven't looked at any other products because the bring your own licenses to other cloud services is cost prohibitive. However we are positioning ourselves where we could use Azure for our Windows servers, AWS for our Linux, and Oracle for our DB services. We have been looking at Equinix as an intermediary solution between the cloud services.