Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on ArrowSphere

A Multi-Cloud World

The growth in multi-cloud environments is a trend that is showing no signs of slowing down, with the market dominated by a small number of hyperscale cloud providers and enterprises choosing a best-of-breed approach and adopting a multi-cloud deployment option. However, the general trend towards a rapid move to the cloud and a haphazard approach of using multiple service providers is only adding to the cost and complexity of cloud computing.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle, the world's largest database management company, is shaking up the cloud computing market with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the next-generation cloud built from the ground up to be a better cloud for every application. By rethinking core engineering and systems design for cloud computing, Oracle is solving customers’ challenges with existing public clouds while aligning with customers’ goals to unlock even greater business value.

OCI is a deep and broad platform of public cloud services that enables customers to build and run a wide range of applications in a scalable, secure, highly available, and high-performance environment. It accelerates migrations of existing enterprise workloads, delivers better reliability and performance for all applications, and offers the complete services customers need to build innovative cloud applications – all at a significantly lower cost.

$100B OCI Market Opportunity for Partners

The 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant recognises OCI as a Visionary for cloud infrastructure and platform services. They recognise Oracle is out-innovating the market with respect to emerging enterprise needs.

In fact, IDC predicts that by 2025 there will be an OCI market opportunity of $100B – with 60% in the SMB market.

Oracle’s business model is closely aligned with customer success – with universal credit giving customers the ultimate flexibility to try new services and shift resources however and whenever they like. This purpose-built enterprise cloud platform also includes tools and services for constructing new cloud-native, open source, and mobile applications, all on a unified networking fabric.

OCI Business Benefits for Customers

Reasons why customers are choosing OCI for all their cloud workloads.

Easier to migrate critical enterprise workloads – OCI is designed with off-box virtualisation, custom security chips, non-blocking networks, L2 network virtualisation, RDMA cluster networking, and flex infrastructure to help organisations address all their enterprise application needs.

Superior price-performance – OCI offers uniform pricing across all regions for consistent and predictable billing. Pricing is competitive with no significant multi-year commitments, and services are backed with the most comprehensive SLAs for availability, manageability, and performance.

The IDC Business Value Study on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure shows that, on average, organisations benefit from a:

53% reduction in the total cost of operations
40% decrease in “keeping the lights on” tasks
35% more efficient IT infrastructure staff
87% reduction in unplanned downtime

Resulting in:

138% increase in time spent on innovation or other activities
25,000 productive end-user hours gained

Everything you need to move and extend applications – Customers can move applications without re-architecture, optimise workloads to reduce manual work, and extend functionality with new interfaces and APIs. OCI has the broad cloud services, and partner ecosystem customers need to build cloud-native apps.

Built-in security – With OCI, security is designed into the cloud platform and included free of charge. Default secure configuration eliminates setup errors, all data is encrypted by default at rest and in motion, and networks are constantly scanned for misconfiguration, policy breaches, and suspicious activity.

Autonomous services that secure, tune, and scale your apps – Oracle applies automation and additional workload-specific optimisation with the Autonomous Database across key database use cases. Oracle also fully automates the operating system, ensuring 99.995% availability.

Support for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies – OCI is designed to support a wide range of deployment options, including the ability to run an entire OCI region dedicated to a single customer from within their data centre. Customers can also move on-premises environments to the public cloud.

ArrowSphere and Working with Arrow

Arrow has one of the strongest cloud propositions in the market, giving you the expert support and tools you need to build a successful cloud practice.

Our award-winning cloud delivery and management platform, ArrowSphere offers end-to-end cloud lifecycle management that helps you manage, scale, and differentiate your business, so you can focus on creating value and accelerating business growth.

ArrowSphere supports your success every step of the way with: