Spend, Security & Sustainability are most likely the top
3 concerns of any CIO/CDO in the cloud era. The spike trend in “cloud
transformation” initiatives is at its peak. As enterprises look to pivot to the
cloud, it’s imperative not to create a “cloud spaghetti” – the same issue that
haunts the traditional on-prem systems. It is not about that first one-off experimental
project or lift & shift of an application to the cloud Infrastructure that
adds value in the longer run – painting the enterprise’s broader vision,
ensuring cloud vendor’s compliance to “standards”, seamless integration options
(PaaS), roadmap for cloud maturity/evolution (SaaS) for higher level of service
efficiencies – all of which should be key concerns of enterprise architects.
Purpose built for diverse enterprise workloads, the next gen
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure promises extreme peak consistent performance, standards
compliance and choice at simple intuitive pricing.
Here are 5 ways how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure uniquely offers
these capabilities;
1) Modern
X7 and GPU Instances
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers compute
for a variety of workloads - from cloud-native application development to
graphic intensive application workloads. Modern X7 skylake processors with up
to 52 OCPUs available in standard, High IO, Dense IO shapes with available
local high-speed NVMe storage and Tesla P100 GPUs based on NVIDIA Pascal
Generation powers Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
2) Choice
of Compute & Deployment
Oracle is uniquely positioned to
offer 3 deployment models – public cloud, private cloud & cloud @ customer
to serve customers of all different shapes, sizes, needs and maturity.
Customers can provision dedicated bare-metal servers in the cloud where no
provider software resides or virtual machine instances based on needs. Also
unique to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is that it is optimized to run Oracle
Databases and Oracle Applications helping customers with their transition to
cloud.
3) High
Throughput 25Gbps Flat Network Infrastructure
With a flat network design reaching
any compute or storage node within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is no more
than 2 hops – extreme performance. Connections between any two nodes within an
Availability Domain is < 100 microseconds and < 1 millisecond between Availability
Domains. Unique to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the fact that there is no “tax”
for HA – customers pay no “data transfer” charges for HA between Availability
Domains.
4) High
Performance NVMe local & Flash-based Block Storage
Oracle Cloud offers best-in-class
storage using the industry-leading NVMe SSDs. In terms of performance, what
this means is that customers can get up to 25,000 IOPS per service volume.
Unique to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the model where customers don’t get
charged for provisioned IOPS which makes a lot of IOPS intensive usecases much
cheaper to run. With out-of-the-box data @ rest encryption, integrated backups
and redundancy, customers pay little over 4 cents per GB per month – that’s ~$500
per TB for a year!
5) Network
Isolation
With security at the
core of the design, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure virtualizes at the network
layer – where it truly belongs. This helps fully encapsulate every customer’s
traffic in a completely private SDN. With highly customizable VCNs (Virtual
Cloud Networks), fully configurable IP addresses, subnets, routing, firewall
and connectivity services, organizations can seamlessly extend their IT
infrastructure by mirroring their internal networks or build new network
topologies with fine-grained control.
