Oracle Transforms the Cloud Infrastructure Market

Oracle Transforms the Cloud
Infrastructure Market

New Cloud services deliver unparalleled choice,
performance and flexibility

Oracle OpenWorld, San
Francisco – September 19, 2016 –
Oracle today 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. The new additions to the
Oracle Cloud Platform enable customers to get the best of both multi-tenant and
single-tenant environments and include Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services, Oracle
Ravello Cloud Service, Oracle Container Cloud Service and enhancements to
existing Oracle Cloud services.

While the business benefits of the
public cloud are increasingly clear, organizations 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
help organizations address this challenge by providing the ability to harness
the benefits of Cloud while retaining many of the benefits provided by a
corporate data center.

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 availability domains, enabling customers to build
high availability, high durability applications in the Cloud. Oracle Bare Metal
Cloud Services seamlessly interoperates with existing Oracle Cloud Platform
offerings, helping customers build mission critical applications that take full
advantage of available services on the Oracle Cloud.

Built
on the foundation of the most modern datacenter, network and server
infrastructure, the Oracle Bare Metal Services are designed with a
fundamentally differentiated approach to Cloud platform development that gives
customers choice and flexibility on their journey to the Cloud. This included
ultra-dense compute servers that provide the industry’s best performance for
enterprise workloads as well as the highest IOPS and the highest bandwidth
storage servers available anywhere in public cloud offerings. As a result,
Oracle customers can achieve 10X the throughput and IOPS of the best offering
on competing Clouds, at a lower price. In addition to high performance, by not
having software run on the compute hosts, Oracle is able to reduce potential
points and deliver the best possible security available in Cloud.

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.

Oracle Container Cloud Service provides
organizations with a Docker-compatible way to deploy application stacks with a
single click. Registry integration capabilities, enterprise-grade application
orchestration, and application scheduling and service scaling capabilities make
the Oracle Container Cloud Service a uniquely compelling option for cloud
developers.

Oracle has also introduced Oracle
FastConnect – Standard and Partner editions – to help customers reliably and
securely connect their datacenter 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.

Oracle Cloud Platform offerings now also
support Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, Oracle Big Data Cloud Service and Oracle
Event Hub Cloud Service in addition to unparalleled support for Oracle’s
existing Platform-as-a-Service offerings.

“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 datacenter.”

“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.”

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more information, please visit us at http://cloud.oracle.com.