Value Proposition

Cloud technology has evolved from an innovative concept into a disruptive endeavor over the past decade. Today, cloud computing is a rapid growth industry in which organizations and researchers continue to push the boundaries of the possible with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science, to provide new and improved solutions for critical problems. With new capabilities emerging every day, cloud technology improves continuously, providing the building blocks for companies to pioneer innovations.

OCI is a deep and broad platform of public cloud services that enables you to build and run a wide range of applications in a scalable, secure, highly available, and high-performance environment. For on-premises requirements, OCI is available with Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Oracle Cloud@Customer brings Oracle's complete portfolio of public cloud infrastructure, fully managed cloud services, and Oracle Fusion SaaS applications into your data center. It enables you to run applications faster and lowers costs using the same high-performance capabilities, autonomous operations, and low-cost subscription pricing found in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Further, you maintain complete control of your data to address data residency, security, and connectivity concerns. Cloud@Customer is the only on-premises public cloud solution in the market today to bring an integrated cloud experience for infrastructure, platform, and software services into a customer's own data center.

Today OCI consumers, including independent software vendors (ISVs), are growing new lines of business, improving their user experiences, speeding their operations, and lowering their risks and costs with OCI. OCI offers secure, scalable, and reliable cloud services to host any ISV or enterprise application. With OCI, ISVs can successfully deliver 24x7 operations, geographically diverse deployments, dynamic customer traffic patterns which might require elastic scaling, and ensure the security of their applications. Also, OCI's unique migration, provisioning, management tools, and Oracle Cloud Lift Services facilitate rapid deployment while maintaining key customizations and integrations.

From startups to some of the world's largest companies, organizations are using a broad portfolio of services provided by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. If you're thinking about moving your business to Oracle Cloud but are unsure of what's available to you, you can begin with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Adoption Framework. This framework is designed to meet you anywhere on your cloud journey.

One of the key differentiators between cloud providers is the level of support for customers on the journey to the cloud and how they can enable and support this at the pace the organization is comfortable with. A key innovation designed to help organizations with this journey is hybrid cloud. If your organization is considering a single cloud provider, then hybrid cloud is less about interoperability and more about making the systems operate smoothly between the on-premises environment and the public cloud environment. Finally, your organization should consider its edge computing strategy, including integrations to the cloud.

These aspects represent considerations for an organization selecting a cloud services provider, and in Omdia's opinion these are the most fundamental ones:

1. Ability to run mission-critical workloads
2. Reliability and openness
3. Support for hybrid and edge computing

If Oracle isn't on your shortlist for public cloud providers, it should be: That's the message from several leading industry analyst firms' recent reports. Gartner, Omdia, IDC, Forrester, and other influencers are noticing momentum and giving high marks to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, specifically for high-performance compute, storage, network, and security.

OMDIA:

When compared to other on-premises and cloud environments, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides noticeable TCO benefits through optimum price performance, low network-egress charges, and consistent global pricing. These benefits help organizations, large and small, unlock the business value of the cloud for enterprise and mission-critical workloads.

While many of the leading cloud providers have developed some form of solution for hybrid cloud, they do not offer all cloud services in this format. Oracle, with its Dedicated Region, provides all its public cloud services at a customer's premises and provides them on a consumption-based commitment.

IDC:

Oracle's IaaS remains a differentiated play, offering tangible benefits in performance and openness, as well as costs that typically undercut competitors by more than half according to Oracle's established customer claims.

Why do customers choose OCI?

Easier to migrate critical enterprise workloads

Many applications are difficult to move to the cloud as the architecture of most hyperscale cloud providers was built on a virtual machine model with shared networks and shared server architectures. OCI was designed with resources like off-box virtualization, custom security chips, non-blocking networks, L2 network virtualization, RDMA cluster networking, and flex infrastructure to help organizations address their enterprise application needs.

Built-in security

In most public clouds, apps are built, and then as they become larger and more functional, security is added on the application. At OCI, security was designed into the core experience, so it was built into the application from the start and comes included free of charge.

Leading price-performance

OCI was developed with a consistent pricing model across all regions to simplify adoption. Compared to AWS, OCI private network connectivity charges cost 74% less, delivers >3x better price-performance for compute, and provides similar performance for HPC, but is 44% less expensive. All of these services are backed with the most comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs) to guarantee availability, manageability, and performance of your cloud environment.

Everything you need to modernize your applications

Customers are able to move applications without re-architecture, optimize workloads leading to reduced manual work, and extend functionality with new interfaces and APIs. OCI's innovations in networking, compute, and storage bring developers the solutions you need to manage cloud native deployment. Oracle's approach to service design makes development resilient, reliable, and scalable with native OCI platform services and a robust ecosystem of development services partners.

Leverage the Oracle modern data platform

Build a complete 360 view of your environment. Perform root cause analysis on complex processes in industries like manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare. Use machine learning to make predictions based on image, text, speech, audio, and transactional data.

Wide range of deployment options

OCI is designed to support a wide range of deployment options for customers, including the ability to run an entire OCI region dedicated to a single customer from within your data center with Cloud@Customer to moving entire on-premises environments to the public cloud.

Ability to create your own cloud services to offer to your customers

With Oracle Alloy, you become a cloud provider. You can offer solutions to your customers that include your own applications and any of the existing OCI services, all running in your own data centers. You might also find this approach useful to fulfill regulatory and sovereignty requirements.

Run complex workloads effectively

High Performance Computing (HPC) lets you run complex workloads, such as advanced simulations and other scientific applications, cost-effectively on the OCI HPC platform.

Oracle public regions: Hyperscale cloud regions in a growing list of worldwide locations

Dedicated regions: All OCI services, running in customer data centers

Multicloud solutions: Complete support for multicloud strategies

Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer: Cloud Autonomous Database, running in your data center

Roving Edge Infrastructure: Compute and storage for remote, disconnected scenarios

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure connectivity solutions for multicloud: Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect, FastConnect and third-party connection, Site-to-Site VPN connection