While it’s true that not all businesses start off as cloud native, many of them want the benefits. Starting or continuing a digital transformation with cloud native technologies and development is key for modern businesses to stay competitive. Moving to a cloud computing environment can improve agility, scalability, and efficiency, all while keeping costs down.
As more companies adopt cloud solutions, some workloads can move quickly and seamlessly to the cloud. However, this isn’t true for all workloads. With many of their critical applications still on-premises, a shift to the cloud can present challenges for organizations in performance, control, and resiliency. But with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the core systems that run your organization on-premises can be moved to and optimized in the cloud without compromises.
How cloud native services can help
For enterprise customers, many are adopting a cloud native strategy for new, in-house development projects. Shorter development cycles, iterative functional delivery, and automated continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tooling allows them to deliver innovation for users and customers quicker than ever before. Moving to cloud native allows companies to use software to their advantage, so that they can automate their business and make it easier for customers to interact with them. Cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker containers, microservices, and functions provide the basis to scale, secure, and enable these solutions.
However, because businesses normally have a wide range of infrastructure and applications, it can sometimes mean monolithic packaged or custom applications that are anything but cloud native. New cloud native solutions must interact with these older systems, but rewriting them isn’t practical in the short term because of resource and time needed.
How OCI improves applications
For most organizations, their IT estate is a mix of on-premises and cloud. To preserve key parts of a business, including major investments like Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), moving them unchanged to OCI makes them do more for you. Extending them with cloud native services drives continued innovation. What’s more, key business applications that currently run on-premises, such as EBS, can also be redeployed in the cloud at a lower cost. OCI offers full-stack automation, while also allowing businesses to interact with a single vendor for continuity. When everything is in the cloud, you get more flexibility and data-rich and hyper-personalized experiences for customers and employees.
Organizations that want to move their core applications, such as E-Business Suite or PeopleSoft, and custom edge applications from an on-premises data center to the cloud need an enterprise cloud provider than can run all current enterprise workloads without compromising performance, security, or resiliency. Oracle Cloud Native services can extend and modernize applications by adding a digital assistant to automate customer interactions, implementing a disaster recovery (DR) plan, modernizing supply chain systems, and more. Using containers and Kubernetes, businesses can host a new, frontend app using EBS for data or as part of the workflow.
For organizations that rely on E-Business Suite every day, migrating to the cloud can seem like a daunting process. Only Oracle provides specific tooling and automation to streamline deployment, migration, upgrading, and maintaining EBS implementation, reducing the time, expertise, risk, and cost of migration and day-to-day operations. Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager is a web-based application that drives all the principal automation flows, including provisioning new environments, performing lifecycle activities on those environments, and restoring environments from on-premises. It was designed to simplify the diverse tasks Oracle E-Business Suite administrators perform daily. With Oracle Management Cloud, it can monitor and govern the environment. E-Business Suite running on OCI on Exadata Cloud service, extended with enterprise-scale management services, offers reduced TCO by as much as 50% versus on-premises, through automation and infrastructure options.
Enterprise cloud workloads must be designed for high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery, while also being secure, observable, and manageable. OCI is engineered to protect both enterprise and cloud native applications. E-Business Suite and cloud native applications run on a highly available, elastic, and redundant cloud infrastructure to ensure that data is protected every step of the way.
Conclusion
OCI was designed specifically to support workloads like EBS, delivering higher performance compute, storage, networking, and managed database instances that result in a lower cost of operation. Oracle Cloud is the only place you can run Oracle Database with RAC or Exadata. Other clouds are limited to less robust configurations. Because OCI was built for the usage patterns of enterprise production applications like EBS, existing deployments can be easily moved to and even improved on OCI with little or no modification of the environment or business processes. Oracle can provide architectural patterns that meet all your networking, connectivity, performance, high availability, disaster recovery, and multiregion requirements, to modernize your business with little downtime, to keep you moving forward.
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