Oracle Cloud at Customer aims to eliminate the remaining barriers to cloud adoption and helps companies convert those obstacles into opportunities – by allowing customers the flexibility to choose the location of their cloud services.
Given the rapidly increasing regulatory and compliance landscape, how can businesses in regulated industries take advantage of Cloud?
Oracle works with a vast number of companies operating in the regulated industries, including Public Sector and BFSI, to name a few. Until recently, one common question that came up from this set of customers was – ‘is there a way we can enjoy the virtues and benefits of a public cloud, but within our premises?’ With advances in cloud technology, this is indeed possible today. Oracle’s portfolio of Cloud at Customer services bring all the benefits of public cloud services within the framework of customers’ on-premises infrastructure – within their own datacenter (without having to move the data out into the cloud), ensuring data privacy.
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“We fully manage and maintain the infrastructure at customers’ premises, so that customers can focus on using the full spectrum of cloud services – spanning IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.”
Vaibhav Gawde
Head-Sales Consulting
Oracle India
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Oracle Cloud at Customer aims to eliminate the remaining barriers to cloud adoption and helps companies convert those obstacles into opportunities – by allowing customers the flexibility to choose the location of their cloud services. Our customers can leverage most of our cloud services both on-premises and in our cloud. In short, customers gain all the benefits of Oracle’s robust cloud offerings, in their own datacenters, all managed and supported by Oracle.
In simple terms, can you explain the USP of Oracle cloud at customer?
Oracle’s Cloud at Customer portfolio of services enables organizations to enjoy all of the benefits of Oracle’s public cloud services, within their datacenters. The business model mirrors that of a public cloud subscription; the hardware and software platform is the same; Oracle experts monitor and manage the infrastructure; and the same tools used in Oracle’s public cloud are used to provision resources on the Oracle Cloud at Customer services. In fact, this is the only offering from a major public cloud vendor that delivers a stack that is 100 percent compatible with the public cloud, but available on-premises, ensuring that customers get the same experience and the latest innovations and benefits using it in their datacenters as in the public cloud.
How robust is Oracle’s Cloud at Customer services portfolio?
Oracle Cloud at Customer is powered by a modern cloud infrastructure platform based on converged Oracle hardware, software-defined storage and networking and a first class IaaS abstraction. We fully manage and maintain the infrastructure at customers’ premises, so that customers can focus on using the full spectrum of cloud services – spanning IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. This is the very same cloud infrastructure platform that powers the Oracle Cloud globally.
What services does Oracle Cloud at Customer portfolio deliver?
Oracle Cloud at Customer delivers the following Oracle Cloud services:
- Infrastructure: Provides elastic compute, containers, elastic block storage, object storage, virtual networking, and identity management to enable portability of Oracle and non-Oracle workloads into the cloud.
- Data Management: Enables customers to use the number one database to manage data infrastructure in the cloud with the Oracle Database Cloud, including Oracle Database Exadata Cloud for extreme performance and Oracle MySQL Cloud.
- Big Data and Analytics: Empowers an entire organization to use a single platform to take advantage of any data to drive insights. Includes a broad set of big data cloud services, including Oracle Big Data Cloud Service, Oracle Analytics Cloud, and Oracle Event Hub Cloud.
- Application Development: Enables organizations to develop and deploy Java applications in the cloud using Oracle Java Cloud, Oracle Application Container Cloud, Oracle Container Cloud, and Oracle WebCenter Portal Cloud.
- Enterprise Integration: Simplifies integration of on-premises applications to cloud applications, as well as cloud application to cloud application integration using Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle SOA Cloud, Oracle Data Integrator Cloud, Oracle GoldenGate Cloud, Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud, and Oracle Internet of Things Cloud.
- Security: Enables organizations to use Oracle Identity Cloud to implement and manage consistent identity and access management policies.
- Software-as-a-Service: Provides organizations with a complete suite of software to run their businesses, including Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle CX Cloud, Oracle HCM Cloud, and Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud.
Can you share some customer success stories?
Beyond just regulatory/compliance aspects, a number of customers are taking advantage of our cloud at customer services to improve agility and accelerate innovation.
AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company, has embraced this model to accelerate network transformation and cloud migration, expanding efficiency, performance and reducing cost while improving overall customer satisfaction. In the Education space, the New York State University uses this solution to modernize the learning experience for students and staff.
Closer home, the State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest bank was the first organization in the entire APAC region to adopt Oracle’s Cloud at Customer offering. SBI is currently using this for app-dev and UAT. One of India’s largest private sector banks use this model for improving their mobile banking experience for customers. One of India’s largest consumer loans provider is using this model to accelerate project deployment time and for average based sizing to cater to seasonal peaks in demand for IT infrastructure.
