The OCI capabilities has a long story to tell! Leverage OCI by moving your apps to cloud and accelerate your digital transformation towards a cost-effective, innovative and a high performing infrastructure. Dive into the details now.
The 4 primary use cases for moving AU apps to the cloud (often referred to as Lift and Shift in the industry, and that we are now calling Move and Improve) include:
Dev/Test in the Cloud
Backup and DR in the Cloud
Production in the Cloud
Extending the Data Center
In addition to those listed above, “partial migrations” might be a use case that makes sense where the core ERP app remains on premises, but a new module is deployed in the cloud
We’re able to support a full range of use cases and deployment architectures.
You can dip your toe in the water with non-production options such as demo/training, creating a sandbox environment in our cloud, development/customization and testing/integration. Validate patches and test new cloud-native application development tools like containers. OCI offers 2 managed container services including a Docker Registry and a managed Kubernetes cluster service
Disaster Recovery is a great way to get started in the cloud as well. Failover a few times, and if and when you are ready to migrate production workloads over, it’ll be that much easier. Database and content backup and archive in the cloud are also use cases we often support for our customers. And we offer capabilities as you consider failing over to our cloud or doing backup and archive in our cloud. Oracle Data Guard is a trusted solution for data protection.
And you can continue to use the same tooling to easily provision DR environments – EBS Cloud Admin, PeopleSoft Cloud Manager, JDE One-Click. And if you’re looking at backup or archive your backend data to the cloud, our Object Storage cloud service is foundational for all Oracle Database cloud service backups whether you’re using VM, bare metal, Exadata or even Autonomous Data Warehouse
We support production environments with HA and DR, and hybrid deployments in so you don’t have to worry about bringing everything over to the cloud all at one time; you can still integrate with your other on-premises apps and components and ensure things work the way they are supposed to. We offer multiple Availability Domains within a single region to support HA. And if you’re looking for the ultimate database resiliency and availability, of course you can only get RAC and Exadata through Oracle. In fact, customers are experiencing better performance than on-premises. We’re also the only leading cloud vendor to offer SLAs to guarantee performance and we’re well suited for hybrid use cases.
Finally if you’re looking to extend your existing data center to the cloud or you’re considering hybrid options, we provide private access via VPN or FastConnect to enable your application in the cloud to communicate with on-premises apps and components over a private network. This way, all of your integrations with components and other apps should just continue to work seamlessly. And if you’re looking for a cloud model but require that infrastructure be managed on premises, we offer Cloud at Customer.
Next, let’s walk through some reference architectures to show how we can run your Oracle app in the cloud.
Moving apps to the cloud offers many benefits from:
Helping you to minimize costs and maximize the return on your spend…
To removing the burden of the undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with managing your own infrastructure…
To providing instant access to compute, networking and storage -
Just to name a few.
Lets discuss how to move forward
Key IT Benefits
Optimize costs by shifting CapEx to OpEx and matching capacity to demand and eliminate the hardware refresh / capacity planning vicious cycle
Consolidate Oracle Apps silos with disparate on-premises hardware into a single cloud infrastructure – and keep your customizations!
Focus on strategic priorities, not managing hardware and software
Next generation IaaS performance matches and often exceeds on-premises deployments
Maintain complete access to (and control of) the data running your business
Meet infrastructure access demands from LOB leaders
Key Application and Dev Team Benefits
Instant access to compute, networking and storage infrastructure
Accelerate dev/test cycles, quickly test new features
Rapidly update production applications
Maintain full control of infrastructure platform
Key Business Benefits
Accelerate business transformation and innovation
IaaS provides instant access to resources, not infrastructure procurement headaches
Ability to create and launch new customer facing apps quickly
So now that we’ve covered the “why,” lets talk about the “what” and describe the solution a bit more to you
So now lets shift gears to share with you the solution our customers are utilizing to move their mission critical apps to the cloud.
We will start by defining what “Move and Improve” (also referred to in the industry as “lift and shift” means from our perspective, highlighting the choices you have along the way
What this section will define for you is our definition of what “move and improve” means for Oracle.
At the highest level, it means we offer many pathways for moving / migrating your application to our Cloud
That process will then allow you to improve the experience of running your Oracle application on OCI
Lets put a little more detail behind the definition now.
We’ve defined Move and Improve for moving Oracle Apps to OCI in these 6 key areas, lets go into each of those in a bit more detail now.
To help you move to the cloud, we offer a wealth of automated migration tools and teams of experts ready to assist you with the migration.
Further we have teams of experts ready to help you with implementing a proof of concept
MOVE
To help you move to the cloud, we owe have teams of experts ready to help you with implementing a proof of concept
Of course, our network of certified MSPs and SIs can also help you migrate to our cloud
We’ve automated many of our migration tools and this often includes your customizations as well
Our Database Cloud Service will allow you to set up automated backups to Object storage
Finally, as we have no provider software of any kind on our bare-metal servers, you can move your application over as-is, without having to re-architect
IMPROVE
OCI takes advantage of high scale, high bandwidth networks that connect cloud servers to high performance local, file, block, and object storage to deliver a cloud platform that yields the highest performance for traditional and distributed applications, as well as highly available databases.
In short, OCI is architected to support the applications that enterprises have been running for years, as well as those they are creating for the future.
OCI offers the ability to run everything from small VMs to large bare metal clusters and highly available databases on the same isolated networks, accessible through the same APIs and console – allowing apps to have direct, low-latency access to high-performance DBs running on physical or virtual servers in the same infrastructure.
With OCI, businesses can run applications requiring millions of IOPs, millisecond latency, and many GB/s of guaranteed bandwidth, on a pay-per-use or monthly credit model. They can build cloud environments with equal or better performance and predictability than dedicated, on-premises environments. In fact, most customers report workloads running on OCI typically show performance results exceeding their on-premises environment.
Compute
Whether a workload requires a single virtual machine or demands the high performance, consistency and isolation offered by our bare metal servers, OCI offers the broadest spectrum of cloud compute options available in the industry today. OCI compute options include virtual machines (VMs), bare metal instances, dedicated compute and Oracle Cloud at Customer (on-premises public cloud behind the customer’s firewall); complimented by migration solutions like Ravello Service and migration and provisioning tools designed to expedite the migration of Oracle Applications to the cloud.
Storage
To provide the best end-user experience, applications need to connect directly to the data they access. Toward that end, we offer secure and scalable cloud-based storage solutions ideal for storing and accessing data from any environment connected to the Internet. OCI storage options include local NVMe flash storage, all-flash block storage, object and archive storage, database backup storage, and a software appliance for an on-premises file storage front-end to the cloud. We also offer a Data Transfer Service, which enables high volume data transfer from on-premises datacenters to Oracle Cloud Object Storage, leveraging offline media like hard disk drives allowing companies to significantly reduce the amount of required to move their data into the Oracle Cloud.
Networking
OCI provides API-accessible Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN) and load balancing capabilities. These highly configurable solutions allow organizations to match on-premises setups, thus not having to re-write networking specifications within applications. We also provide network edge services such as DNS.
Database
OCI has a number of unique features and tools that are geared to migrate and/or run Oracle’s databases and business applications portfolio with unmatched scalability and reliability. Minimal architecture changes are needed to move Oracle Applications, reducing the cost and length of migration to the cloud. Proven technologies like RAC are available, retaining best practices and confidence. And the latest hardware and technologies are available, improving database and application performance and results:
Oracle Databases: Oracle Databases scale to many times the storage capacity and performance of competitors, reaching up to 268 terabytes of capacity and millions of IOPS per instance.
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC): Running RAC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides database High Availability (HA) with failover in seconds, performance scaling into the hundreds of thousands of IOPS, and seamless operations via rolling patches and upgrades. This offering introduces a new cloud-based standard for production database applications.
Oracle Exadata: Run partial or full rack Exadata form factors in the same enhanced regions, and on the same virtual cloud networks as bare metal compute and other OCI services – controlled with the same set of governance tools, and accessible via the same console/APIs. Providing maximum scalability, database storage can scale to 268 terabytes and process millions of IOPS.
All of the above allows enterprises the level of control they are used to on-premises, but with better performance.
There are 3 basic options for how Apps Unlimited gets deployed on IaaS.
1) The application and the Database both run on Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
In this instance the customer controls both the application and the mid-tier. This will be the case often when a customer has a partner managing their implementation for them
2) The application and its customizations run on OCI, but the Database runs on on Database Cloud Service to take advantage of the services DCS provides
3) The final option is actually the same implementation as the second option, except in this case it is consumed as a managed service where either Oracle or a partner manages the entire implementation for the customer.
So now lets shift gears to focus on the storage portfolio itself.
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Problem
They Faced a contract renewal at a colo facility with aging hardware that was running a suite of key Oracle applications including EBS, Hyperion, and Oracle Databases
Solution
Migrated all Oracle ERP, BI and data integration apps to Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services
> 500 compute nodes, 50+ VMs, and DBs with > 60TB of NVMe local storage, 70TB of object storage and 4TB of block storage
Benefits
Performance that doubled the previous solution
Predictable, high bandwidth connectivity to apps
Consolidated database systems from 19 to 3
The Oracle cloud was purpose-built for the enterprise
We run Oracle Apps and DBs better than anyone else
iSP3 is an Oracle partner who specializes in offering JD Edwards consulting and implementation services.
They themselves were running JDE on premisis until we helped them migrate to our Cloud.
Once they experienced the cost savings and other cloud benefits including not having to manage the underlying JDE infrastructure, they then parlayed this first hand experience to dozens of its customers to help them also migrate to the Oracle cloud.
Moving to cloud removes the burden of undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with managing your own infrastructure
http://beastute.com/success-story/university-of-santiago/
University of Santiago
The University of Santiago, with 23,000 students in Chile, has migrated their PeopleSoft Campus Solution dev/test and demonstration environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with the help of their partner Astute. They are now in the process of moving dev/test for key finance and HR applications.
Oracle solution
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Database Cloud Service, PeopleSoft 9.2 Campus Solution
35% savings each year
The university is reducing costs by 35%
for each of the next 5 years
Improving availability
The new architecture has no dependency on their local infrastructure and makes use of two Oracle fault-independent availability domains
The initial demonstration and final deployment each took just a few weeks, while the complete process including requirements gathering and planning took six months, and the PeopleSoft solution is live today.
“Astute built our managed PeopleSoft solution on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.The complete solution is saving the University 35% compared with other options we explored. We have been thrilled with the results and quality of service. We could not have moved to the cloud, or upgraded to PeopleSoft version 9.2, without Astute’s expertise and support.”
- Francisco Acuña Castillo, Project Manager, University of Santiago
WHY ORACLE?
• 35% lower costs on the complete solution with Astute and Oracle, while improving security
• Time to solution – demonstrated in days, testable in weeks, and fully deployed in under 6 months
• Using PeopleSoft Cloud Manager instead of previous manual tools and processes
• Independent availability domains improve solution availability
PROFILE
• Education• South America
SOLUTION
• Multiple US Availability Domains • Oracle Database Cloud Service • Oracle Management Cloud• PeopleSoft Cloud Manager
• Oracle PeopleSoft 9.2 Campus Solution with PeopleTools 8.55
The deployment covers dev/test and production environments using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute virtual machines running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Oracle Linux 7.4, Oracle Database Cloud Service, and an application/web tier with PeopleSoft 9.2. Astute uses Oracle Management Cloud to monitor the production environment.
“We couldn’t believe Astute and Oracle provided a complete proof of concept of a full-featured campus solution as a managed service in 2 weeks for the cost of a few thousand dollars,” said Francisco Acuña Castillo, Project Manager at the University of Santiago.
“PeopleSoft Update Manager is enabling us to benefit from new features regularly, as well. This has been a great initial experience with public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and we’re already exploring moving additional applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Astute.”
“And the end users are happier, too. We deployed with PeopleSoft’s PeopleTools Fluid UI’s responsive design capabilities which has improved both desktop and mobile user experience. Navigating to the information or features you need is faster and easier, and the personalized home page is also helpful,” Francisco concluded.