The cost-efficiency, scalability and flexibility of the public cloud are appealing to just about any organization. However, security concerns, as well as reliance on the public Internet, have made it difficult and risky to move some workloads to the public cloud. In some industries, government and industry regulations may also disallow such a move. While a private cloud may seem like a logical alternative, building and managing a private cloud is much more complex than it sounds. It requires a new set of skills and a holistic approach that cuts across traditional operational silos. In addition, because most organizations are using multiple public and private clouds, IT teams must learn and manage multiple cloud platforms. This increases the operational overhead and creates challenges in terms of moving workloads.
Oracle is helping to address these challenges with the introduction of the Oracle Cloud Machine. This preloaded system brings the Oracle cloud stack into an on-premises device that can be installed in your data center, and behind your firewall. It also includes cloud management software that automates the setup and management of the private cloud.
The Oracle Cloud Machine is essentially a replica of Oracle public cloud services that enables you to tap into the benefits of the Oracle Cloud while retaining full control over your data and applications. Oracle and non-Oracle workloads can seamlessly move between on-premises and cloud platforms based upon business requirements, using identical environments, tools and APIs. This capability delivers on the vision of the hybrid cloud, which many organizations have struggled to integrate and operate.
Oracle Cloud Machine ensures that data sovereignty, residency and audit requirements are met, which overcomes major hurdles for organizations that have not yet leveraged the cloud due to security and regulatory concerns. This solution complies with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard for handling cardholder data, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act for handling private health information, and other regulatory standards.
A key benefit of the Oracle Cloud Machine is that organizations pay for it on a monthly basis as they would with a public cloud, even though the system runs within the enterprise data center. Organizations can choose the services they need, such as elastic compute and block storage, virtual networking, file storage, messaging, identity management, data management, application development and DevOps. Because Oracle Cloud and Oracle Cloud Machine use identical Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service software with the same advanced capabilities, applications can be written once and automatically deployed to either platform.
In essence, Oracle Cloud Machine makes it possible for a private cloud to act like a private cloud with identical services and APIs. You also gain the elasticity and subscription-based pricing of the public cloud with consistent functionality and user experience, all seamlessly delivered on premises in a turnkey solution. Let Technologent, a Gold-Level Oracle Partner, show you how Oracle Cloud Machine can bring Oracle Cloud services and innovation to your data center.
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