The adoption of cloud technology has been transformative for nearly every business, industry, and product; from providing data continuity to serving as a bridge to emerging technologies, the capabilities of the cloud help define today’s enterprise technology norm.
Given the current pace of cloud innovation, Oracle predicts that by 2025, 80% of all enterprise and mission critical workloads will move to the cloud. Enabling this transition will be the development of the second-generation cloud which will offer 100% data-center replacement.
In assessment of these predictions, it’s critical to understand why enterprises haven’t already migrated their critical workloads to cloud computing. The design principles for many first-generation clouds were purposed for low-risk workloads utilizing commodity servers and shared tenancy. They weren’t built to support workloads that require real-time processing and that are tied to millions or billions of dollars of revenue. “They were designed so ‘tenants’ of their cloud could share commodity servers and storage to maximize their profits. And that’s fine for disposable test environments and low-risk workloads.” Says Peter Heller, Oracle’s senior director for enterprise architecture marketing in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal.
However, the conventional public cloud is being re-invented to now serve the most demanding business applications. To have 100% data-center replacement, it’s only possible when cloud solutions are afforded the same level of reliability and performance as on-premises technology. As Heller points out, “If cloud providers stayed with this cloud architecture—shared, commodity hardware—that ‘80 percent by 2025’ cloud prediction would never come to pass.” Moving from first-generation towards a next-generation cloud model will drive businesses to have more access to new technologies, better security, improved price performance, and deep automation capabilities.
To enable this digital transformation, Oracle released its self-driving, Autonomous Database in Oracle Cloud in March 2018. Leveraging automation technology, Oracle’s second-generation cloud delivers core-to-edge security and eliminates manual tasks such as database tuning, patching, and provisioning. Built on Oracle’s Exadata, the autonomous database provides the foundational infrastructure needed for all types of workloads – AI, traditional, mission-critical, performance-intensive, high-performance computing (HPC) – enabling companies to leave their data centers behind.
The unique value of Oracle comes from our complete cloud portfolio with intelligence infused at every layer, spanning infrastructure services, platform services, and applications. Oracle provides deep support of hybrid cloud through interoperability with traditional on-premises applications and systems as well as non-Oracle workloads. With Oracle, the path to cloud is as simple as an upgrade. Customers can leverage their existing investments and skills to new versions that upgrade their capabilities and experiences, while reducing risk and driving greater business value.
It’s all part of Oracle’s mission to support customers’ journeys to the cloud, wherever their starting point might be, so they can access an AI-based future today.
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