Oracle on Monday introduced the broadest array of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings in the industry, which include bare metal cloud servers that are 11.5X faster and 20 percent cheaper than the fastest solution offered by the competition.
This innovation was unveiled in San Francisco, California, at the ongoing Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne.
This is good news for Nigerian businesses as the bare metal cloud servers will enable customers connected to Oracle to get the best of multi-tenant and single-tenant environments, including Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services, Oracle Ravello Cloud Service, Oracle Container Cloud Service and enhancements to existing Oracle Cloud services.
According to Oracle, organisations face a myriad of performance, security and management concerns that mean they can’t simply abandon all of their existing IT practices and move all workloads to a multi-tenant cloud world. The latest enhancements to Oracle’s IaaS portfolio, therefore, help organisations address this challenge by providing the ability to harness the benefits of Cloud while retaining many of the benefits provided by a corporate data centre.
“As more and more enterprises leverage the Cloud, they want a simple, seamless way to migrate their large and complex IT infrastructures to the Cloud, and to use the security and management controls that their IT teams already know,” said Thomas Kurian, president of product development, Oracle. “The latest additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform enable organizations to seamlessly connect their existing resources to the Oracle Cloud using Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) and select from a wide variety of compute services including bare metal, virtual machines and engineered systems as if it were a part of their own data centre.”
“We have been very impressed by how easy it is to use Oracle’s Bare Metal Cloud Services. The DataStax Enterprise clusters we’ve deployed are running blazingly fast, with sub-micro second latency, and these are key business drivers for us,” says Ben Lackey, lead partner at DataStax. “Additionally, the multiple availability domains per region, allows us to bring our mission critical, high availability workloads to Oracle’s Bare Metal Cloud.”
“We are excited about the results we are seeing with Oracle’s Bare Metal Cloud, with regard to the architecture, performance and scalability,” said Patrick Sullivan, managing partner and Oracle global technology lead at Accenture. “This enhances our clients’ ability to accelerate their journey to the Cloud.”
Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services are a high-scale public cloud offering and include bare metal cloud servers in a fully virtualized network environment. The innovative new services deliver high performance database-as-service, network block storage, object storage and VPN connectivity. In addition, Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services provide a secure, private and high-performance software defined Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) that allows customers to treat Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services as a secure and elastic extension of their on-premise network. Additionally, Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services maximize network throughput by providing direct connectivity between compute and storage nodes.
The regional deployment of Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services consists of three completely fault-independent.
Oracle has also introduced Oracle FastConnect – Standard and Partner editions – to help customers reliably and securely connect their data centre to the Cloud. With the addition of Oracle FastConnect, Oracle now offers some of the broadest connectivity and peering options available in the industry, including IPsec VPN for easy setup, MPLS to connect to existing enterprise networks and Fast Connect for quick peering.
Further extending the Oracle Cloud Platform, Oracle also announced Oracle Ravello Cloud Service, the general availability of Oracle Container Cloud Service and several significant enhancements to existing Oracle IaaS offerings.
Oracle Ravello Cloud Service is the first cloud service in the industry that enables organizations to take enterprise VMware and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) workloads and run them in the public cloud without any changes. With Oracle Ravello Cloud Service, customers can run VMware natively on public cloud without requiring VM conversion, application reconfiguration or networking changes. It is also the only service in the industry that allows enterprises to have full L2 and L3 networking flexibility in the public cloud.
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