Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Purpose-Built for the Enterprise

Cloud Essentials 
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Given the choice, virtually all businesses would Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, on the other
prefer IT solutions that support innovation and hand, delivers an enterprise-grade public cloud.
minimize costs. Pursuit of this ideal is increasingly Oracle architected it specifically to run enterprise
driving organizations to the cloud. According to applications and databases. It also includes tools
451 Research, there is now a strong public cloud and utilities for constructing new cloud native
option for almost every kind of application and and mobile apps, all on a unified platform and
workload, and an entire generation of IT talent networking fabric. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
has grown up with the infrastructure-as-a-service delivers the performance, versatility, and
(IaaS) model1. governance required by enterprise IT while
offering a level of performance often exceeding
Whereas the overall trend is clear, enterprise
what is commonly found in on-premises,
applications and legacy infrastructure often remain
high-performance computing environments.
in on-premises data centers, partly because
Oracle also offers tools to migrate existing
IT leaders are skeptical about a public cloud
applications to the cloud without forcing you
provider’s ability to meet enterprise requirements.
to rearchitect those applications—along with
Their skepticism is warranted—most public clouds focused cloud support for Oracle applications
lack the capabilities necessary to host high-end, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards,
mission-critical applications. First-generation PeopleSoft, Siebel, and more.
cloud vendors offer commodity, multitenant cloud
Read on to learn more about this unique
infrastructure that can’t easily support high-end
enterprise cloud service offering from Oracle.
computing demands—often failing to provide the
consistency, low latency, and high performance
required by enterprise applications.

1
451 Research, “Moving Critical Applications to the Cloud: Understanding the Benefits and Challenges,” study sponsored by Oracle, February 2018.
The Rise of Enterprise Computing—in the Cloud

Every year, more and more organizations broad cross-section of organizations to learn
are moving applications to Oracle Cloud more about their adoption of cloud infrastructure.
Infrastructure, reflecting the growing confidence According to RightScale’s assessment, whereas
in Oracle’s unique cloud infrastructure for only 32 percent of workloads were running in a
enterprise workloads. These customers are public cloud, a growing number of enterprises
driven by three fundamental goals, which reflect viewed public clouds as their top priority—up
larger industry trends driving infrastructure-as-a- from 29 percent in 2017 to 38 percent in 20183.
service (IaaS) deployments:
In December 2017, Unisphere Research
• To reduce the cost and complexity of owning conducted a study among the members of the
and operating on-premises infrastructure Independent Oracle Users Group to examine
the key challenges, priorities, and solutions
• To accelerate IT delivery by adopting the
associated with cloud computing. According
cloud for specific initiatives
to this extensive survey of 229 IT professionals,
• To create versatile business models that the percentage of core enterprise workloads—
disrupt less-nimble competitors. namely databases and applications—supported
in the cloud will increase significantly over
Through 2019, IT spending on enterprise data
the next 24 months. Currently, 31 percent report Longitude “Cloud Insights” report:
center hardware will decrease, while spending
that a majority of their workloads are cloud-borne, Respondents to the survey had already
on x86 servers by service providers and
a percentage that will increase to 51 percent migrated 29 percent of their applications,
hyperscale providers will increase . Other 2
in two years. Furthermore, more than one-third and were in the process of migrating
leading research firms see similar changes
of these professionals said they are engaged another 25 percent.
on the horizon. In January 2018, RightScale
in efforts to move legacy applications into Longitude Report, Cloud Insights, August 2017
surveyed technical professionals across a
cloud environments4.

2
David Edward Ackerman, Sid Nag, and Ed Anderson, “Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2017 Update G0032549,” Gartner, March 2017. 3 RightScale, “RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report:
Data to Navigate Your Multicloud Strategy,” 2018. 4 Joseph McKendrick, “The New Data Management Landscape: 2018 IOUG Special Report on Data Management Trends,” study sponsored by the Independent
Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and produced by Unisphere Research, June 2018
Welcome to the Next Generation

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure combines the their own network, called a virtual cloud Increase Agility and Maximize Investments with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
elasticity and utility of the public cloud with network, isolated from every other Increase the pace of innovation Maximize IT spending
the control, security, performance, and customer’s network. These virtual cloud
• Launch and scale new apps quickly • Reduce your reliance on
predictability of on-premises computing networks can include single-tenant, high-
with on-demand infrastructure data center infrastructure
environments. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure performance, bare metal servers that
customers receive consistent, dependable contain no provider software, enabling • Focus on competitive differentiation, • Minimize costs by paying
service levels for all types of applications organizations to customize their computing not on routine IT tasks only for what you consume
and computing environments, including and environments and run applications in
• Put IT infrastructure in the hands • Maximize value by matching
complex, high-performance computing (HPC) the same manner as they do on premises.
of those who need it quickly capacity with demand
workloads such as simulating crash tests,
modeling insurance risks, and testing new
manufacturing materials.
DevTest in the Cloud Production in the Cloud
First-generation public cloud offerings • Test customizations and new app versions • Utilize bare metal for consistency and industry-leading
price/performance
were not architected to accommodate • Validate patches
• Use multiple Availability Domains, load balancing,
these traditional application architectures. • Test cloud-native technologies and frameworks like
and RAC for high availability
containers and CI/CD
Enterprise workloads and performance-
intensive workloads don’t run well in these
hypervisor-based environments, where
Workload agility for apps
in the Oracle Cloud
multiple tenants virtually share the same
physical infrastructure and contend for limited
Backup and DR in the Cloud Extend Data Center to the Cloud
resources. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, on the
• Take advantage of built-in storage resiliency, availability • Connect on-premises data center to cloud using VPN
other hand, moves the virtualization layer into and security or FastConnect
the physical network—a concept referred to • Use automation/virtual appliances to back up and • Reduce risk of technology obsolescence by accessing
restore key files and archive infrequently accessed files latest infrastructure
as off-box virtualization. Customers enjoy
Get Enterprise Apps
into the Cloud Quickly

Oracle has specialized, field-tested tools and Get More from Your Oracle Apps by Moving to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
programs to help customers move enterprise
applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite,
Move
JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel to Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure. A suite of migration,
provisioning, and management tools for these Expert Migration Automated Maintain Your
applications and their associated databases Assistance Migration Tools Architecture

means minimal architecture changes, helping Use automated tools and/or Migrate workloads with Lowest cost, fastest way
experts to expedite the minimum retooling to move to the cloud
you get online rapidly. Oracle’s purpose-built migration process
migration tools simplify the transition and can
even capture application customizations.

Move and Improve Application Workloads

Only Oracle offers: Improve

• An easy, cost-effective way to move

mission-critical Oracle Applications Enterprise Cloud Enterprise Grade Rapid Provisioning
Infrastructure Database and and Scalable Capacity
to the cloud Platform Services
Superior performance, Quickly create multiple
availability domains, support, Fastest, most resilient ad-hoc environments and
• Capabilities to improve application and full-featured programmatically increase/
high availability, and
performance, resiliency, and agility disaster recovery Oracle Database reduce capacity

in a purpose-built enterprise cloud

• A range of deployment and licensing

options to meet any business need.
Case in Point: Migrating
ERP Functionality to the Cloud

Organization: Problem: a few thousand US dollars. Today, the

The University of Santiago, one of the The university’s PeopleSoft solution university uses the built-in PeopleSoft “This is the University of Santiago’s
oldest universities in Chile, worked with is a critical part of its IT infrastructure. Cloud Manager feature instead of its
first major foray into the cloud,
Astute, an Oracle partner, to implement However, as time passed, the enterprise previous manual tools and processes,
and they were amazed at how
a PeopleSoft Campus Solution on software application required significant and it takes advantage of independent
fast we were able to build,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. effort to maintain, secure, and update. availability domains to improve stability,
demonstrate, and deploy a
The deployment lacked modern features reliability, and security.
solution with Oracle Cloud
and capabilities, and the application couldn’t
“This has been a great initial Success: Infrastructure. We consistently
easily integrate with other information
experience with public cloud systems. The university struggled to
The cloud-based PeopleSoft solution recommend Oracle Cloud
IaaS, and we’re already exploring keep the software current and maintain
cost 35 percent less than other options. Infrastructure because it’s built
moving additional applications high levels of availability.
Astute demonstrated the solution in for just this sort of enterprise
days, tested it in weeks, and deployed production application.”
to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.”
it fully in less than six months. Based
Solution:
on this quick success, the university Sudhir Mehandru,
Francisco Acuña Castillo, Astute and Oracle provided a full-featured
Project Manager, University of Santiago is moving its DevTest activities and Cofounder and COO, Astute
PeopleSoft Campus Solution in Oracle
other key applications to Oracle
Cloud as a managed service. The primary
Cloud Infrastructure.
installation took only two weeks and cost
Get Exceptional Performance and Granular
Control with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Enterprise applications, high-performance Customers seeking the highest levels of

computing, transactional database applications, performance for challenging workloads—such
real-time analytics—all these workloads require as processing jobs that require a tightly coupled
peak levels of performance and predictability infrastructure—can provision bare metal servers
that are often lacking in first-generation cloud in conjunction with semi-persistent, nonvolatile
environments. Oracle’s next-generation cloud memory express (NVMe) drives that have 51.2TB
infrastructure offers powerful CPU options, of capacity and are capable of 5 million I/O
massive memory capabilities, and dense storage operations per second.
capacity. It can deliver millions of transactions
Graphics-intensive workloads such as
per second within a single compute instance
engineering simulations and 3D rendering jobs
at a superior price per transaction.
can be directed to graphical processing units
Oracle’s high-bandwidth, low-latency cloud (GPUs) based on the NVIDIA Tesla P100 and
network connects these servers to file, block, V100 processors.
and object storage resources. Highly available
According to customer reports, the above
database options include two-node Oracle
scenarios often deliver equal or better
Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Oracle
performance than dedicated, on-premises
Exadata Database Machine, as well as Oracle
database environments.
Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud—all running
on the same infrastructure as bare metal and
virtual machine instances.
Gain Maximum Control Integrated Governance and Control
Oracle Cloud enables you to run traditional Users access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
enterprise apps along with cloud-native apps, resources via Oracle Identity and Access
all on the same platform, reducing operational Management technology, which supports
overhead and enabling direct connectivity role-based access controls and granular allocation
between both types of workloads. You can start and auditing capabilities. Cloud administrators
small with a single virtual server and gradually can set access policies and grant permissions
expand to include an Oracle Exadata system, an to cloud resources, setting` up specific
Oracle RAC cluster, and bare metal servers that compartments on a per-project, per-person,
can accommodate the exact operating systems, or per-group basis. All usage is rolled up under
middleware, databases, and applications that you a single account structure, simplifying billing
need to install. In fact, you can run it all on the and administration.
same networking fabric—a fully programmable
At a macro level, Oracle protects Oracle Cloud
and customizable virtual cloud network (VCN).
Infrastructure with a highly trained, 24/7 network
operations center staff. Single-tenant, bare metal
servers are isolated from all other tenants, and
no vendor software of any kind is run on these
machines, giving customers complete control
over the environment. Oracle Cloud is built
around multiple layers of security and multiple
levels of defense throughout the technology stack,
from the application layer to the silicon layer.
Become a Cloud Innovator

Longitude Research surveyed 730 senior • Update IT infrastructure (27 percent) Oracle Brings the Cloud to You at Customer—is ideal when data must
IT leaders to determine key cloud trends5. With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you can remain on-premises for regulatory, privacy,
• Improve the speed of innovation
Here are the top five motivations for moving take advantage of a broad range of compute, or legal reasons.
(25 percent)
to the cloud: storage, and network resources that include:
Oracle can deploy and maintain an instance
• Improve customer or client interactions
• Save on IT costs (33 percent) • A choice of deployment options including of Oracle Cloud Machine or Oracle Database
(24 percent).
public cloud, traditional on-premises Exadata Cloud Machine. Rather than
• Improve IT resource management
systems, and Oracle Cloud at Customer, purchasing hardware and software,
(32 percent)
an option to deploy a private cloud behind you can simply subscribe to it and let
your firewall Oracle handle every aspect of installation,
Why Migrate to Oracle Cloud configuration, patching, lifecycle
• Exceptional performance, visibility,
management, upgrading, and monitoring.
and control
Innovation Cost Value Peace of Mind Agility You get a mini Oracle Cloud—all fully
• Tools for migrating Oracle workloads managed—behind your firewall.
to the cloud.

If you can’t move your data and applications

to the public cloud because of data privacy
Accelerate Improve Add business Lower risk with Gain agility for concerns, industry regulations, or unique
business resource value without single-vendor rapidly changing
transformation utilization infrastructure accountability environments
security requirements, you can still take
headaches advantage of the public clouds scalability,
affordability, and ease by using Oracle Cloud
technology in your own data center, behind
your firewall. This solution— Oracle Cloud

5
Longitude Research, “Cloud Insights,” study sponsored by Oracle and Intel, August 2017.
Case in Point: High-Performance Computing
Simulations on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Organization: Problem: Success:

The Institute for CyberScience (ICS) at Penn Despite the pool of infrastructure detailed, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure enables ICS to run
State University provides HPC resources the ICS group continued to see escalating more jobs simultaneously to accommodate
to help researchers solve computationally demands for compute, network, and peak HPC workloads. Its FastConnect
intensive problems. storage capacity beyond what they had functionality extends the data center network
installed. Therefore, ICS sought to replicate with low-latency, high-speed connectivity.
Its state-of-the art data center facility includes
the capabilities of this robust, on-premises
more than 1,300 servers with 23,000
HPC environment in the cloud. ICS added a Scientific researchers now have a near
computational cores, linked by a 100 Gbps
new tier of HPC services based on Oracle limitless pool of compute and storage
network, along with 20 PB of data storage
Cloud Infrastructure that extends capacity resources that streamlines research projects
capacity (including 8 PB of flash storage).
beyond the bounds of its physical data center and maximizes funding, without adding
This converged infrastructure enables resources. These new offsite virtual compute management complexity.
researchers to perform advanced engineering resources are based on bare metal servers
simulations for manufacturing, nuclear energy, within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
and other scientific domains, such as modeling
weather patterns on Mars.

“Being able to seamlessly burst out to cloud providers is critical to our success. Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure gives us performance and customizability, with access to bare metal resources.
That’s critical for the performance requirements we need to support our enterprise.”

Chuck Gilbert, Technical Director and Chief Architect,

Institute for CyberScience, Penn State University
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Service Level Guarantees

Oracle is the only major cloud provider to SLAs are an integral part of production
back its cloud offering with service-level workloads, and a strong assurance for customers
agreements (SLAs) for performance, availability, wanting to shift enterprise workloads to the
and manageability. Oracle guarantees that its cloud. Al Gillen, GVP of software development
cloud resources are available for mission-critical and open source at IDC, summed it up succinctly:
enterprise applications as well as for processor “Customers expect service level commitments
intensive workloads such as engineering for uptime to mean that their applications are not
simulations, financial modeling, artificial only available, but manageable and performing
intelligence, and machine learning. as expected, regardless of where that application
may be located. Unfortunately, many cloud
• 
Availability SLAs. Your cloud workloads
SLAs don’t make that broad commitment.
will experience outstanding uptime
Oracle’s revised SLAs provide customers
thanks to Oracle’s high availability
the guarantees they need to run mission-critical
compute, block volume, object storage,
enterprise applications in cloud environments
and FastConnect services
with confidence.”
• Manageability SLAs. Oracle is the first
cloud vendor to provide manageability
SLAs, ensuring you can manage, monitor,
and modify your resources as you see fit

• 
Performance SLAs. It’s not enough for
your applications to be merely accessible.
They should perform consistently—
and Oracle is the first cloud vendor
to guarantee performance levels.
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Focus on Your Business,

Not on the IT Underpinnings

Cloud computing is creating entirely new Oracle Advanced Customer Services (ACS) Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
business categories and disrupting existing ACS provides complete lifecycle management
ones—and it’s happening fast. Oracle of Oracle Applications Unlimited on Oracle

Compute
built Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from Technology Cloud with industry leading
the ground up to meet the requirements Service-Level Agreements (SLAs), disaster
of large enterprises that want to reduce recovery, and critical business transaction Bare Metal Bare Metal Virtual Virtual Containers
Servers Servers+ GPUs Machines Machines+ GPUs
the cost of updating, maintaining, and monitoring enabled by a cloud automation
operating corporate data centers. Moving platform on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Networking
your mission-critical workloads to Oracle These application lifecycle services include:
Cloud Infrastructure enables you to focus Planning, Transition and Validation, Application
on your core business instead of Design, Development and Test, and ongoing
Virtual Cloud Load DNS FastConnect VPN
infrastructure forecasting, acquisition, organizational support. Networks Balancers

hosting, and maintenance.

Oracle has everything you need to migrate Test-drive Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Storage
and run Oracle applications quickly and
now at cloud.oracle.com/tryit.
easily, as well as to move traditional data
Local NVMe Block Object/Archive File Backup
center applications to the cloud—with no and Transfer

architecture changes. You can build new

cloud-native applications on the same
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s powerful compute, storage,
flexible cloud infrastructure, and leverage
and network resources support applications requiring millions
the core tenets of versatility, performance,
of I/O operations per second, millisecond latency, and many
governance, and predictable pricing to
gigabytes per second of guaranteed bandwidth.
address all your enterprise requirements.
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Within a single offering, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure takes advantage of high-scale, It also offers the ability to run everything—from small
combines the benefits of public cloud (self-service, high-bandwidth networks that connect cloud servers to virtual machines (VMs) to large bare metal clusters and
on-demand availability, and scalability) with the high-performance local, file, block, and object storage. highly available databases—on the same isolated networks.
advantages usually associated with on-premises This delivers a cloud platform that yields the highest These are accessible through the same APIs and console—
environments (predictability, performance, and control). performance for traditional and distributed applications, allowing apps to have direct, low-latency access to
as well as highly available databases. In short, high-performance databases running on physical or
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is architected to support virtual servers in the same infrastructure.
the applications enterprises have been running for
years, as well as those they are creating for the future.

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