Oracle Private Cloud at Customer: 4 Reasons Which Make It An Ideal Solution

Businesses looking to modernize operations and improve customer experience know that the path to digital transformation lies in the cloud. No wonder, then, that the adoption of cloud native technologies in production has increased by 267% between 2017 and 2018. But most  businesses have realized that they have a need for both private and public clouds.

Therefore, they’re exploring multi-cloud strategies that let them respond to fast-changing market needs while still ensuring data sovereignty and compliance to data regulations. The ideal solution to this challenge is a secure and agile infrastructure that supports application portability to other clouds without vendor lock-in.

Oracle Private Cloud at Customer (PCC) lets you deploy an instance of the Oracle cloud in your data center, behind your firewall via a convenient subscription model that covers hardware, software, and all management and support services,  thereby eliminating  capital expenses. For those critical applications requiring the security and control of an on-premise environment, PCC essentially brings the cloud to you, including an identical feature set, a similar financial model, and the same operational model found in Oracle’s public cloud.

The difference? Your IT team retains complete control of company applications and workloads. And, because it's precisely compatible with our public cloud, any hybrid cloud use case you might think of becomes almost trivial to implement and manage.

There are dozens of reasons why this innovative architecture is the right solution for your infrastructure needs, here are four big ones:

1. Fast time to value

We designed Oracle Private Cloud at Customer to deliver enterprise-grade IaaS for rapid and easy deployment of mission-critical applications and workloads while keeping your data on-premise. PCC accelerates application deployment using VM templates and high-performance, low-latency Oracle Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies to facilitate automated provisioning of the server and storage networks. Based on tests done by the Oracle VM team, you can deploy apps 7x to 10x faster than traditional VM solutions. Like public cloud solutions, PCC offers convenient OpEx subscription pricing with infrastructure managed by Oracle to free your IT resources for other strategic business initiatives.

2. Secure infrastructure

Oracle PCC offers isolated management and VM Access Networks to help ensure that your mission-critical workloads run securely in your data center and in full control by your IT team. Your cloud admins can create and manage users, private networks, and IaaS instances, as well as monitor and back up all guest VMs. Plus, because Oracle Cloud Ops handles using the Telemetry data received via Oracle Application Server Guard (ASG), they don’t have to worry about patching and troubleshooting.

3. IaaS out of the box

Oracle PCC comes with everything you need to deploy and manage applications in your private cloud. It comes pre-cabled with integrated compute scalable from 2-20 CN, ZS7 storage with 200 TB usable storage expandable to 2200 TB, and a 100GbE connectivity between rack components and the datacenter.

The included Enterprise Management 13c IaaS self-service portal offers a single pane of glass for management, monitoring, and IaaS. With support for Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment (OL CNE), your team can automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications on Docker managed by Kubernetes.

Applications deployed and developed using OL CNE are portable without changes to any Kubernetes-compliant platform both on-premise and in the public cloud, thus facilitating your multi-cloud strategy. PCC’s Ansible VM Lifecycle module helps you automate creation, deletion, starting, and stopping of VMs and helps cut down deployment times along with preventing human errors. Other out-of-the-box features include:

• Site Guard disaster recovery
• Oracle Hypervisor
• Premier support for Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris

4. Flexible architecture

Oracle Private Cloud at Customer’s flexible architecture allows you to consolidate your organization’s Linux, Solaris, Oracle, and Windows workloads onto a converged platform. Scaling capacity is as easy as adding compute nodes as your business needs grow. Simply slide in an additional compute node one at a time and the controller software will take care of the rest. 

PCC gives your team access to widely used open-source automation and container management tools, such as Ansible and Terraform, to accelerate application deployments by up to 80%. Oracle Linux Cloud native environment allows you to automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications to maximize application portability.

Simplify and accelerate your private cloud deployment with Oracle Private Cloud at Customer, which combines scalability, zero-downtime upgradability, and security with a flexible subscription model to deliver IaaS out of the box that can be managed from a single pane of glass. Achieve faster time to value while retaining control over data privacy, compliance, and governance while maintaining low latency for on-premise applications and data.

To learn more about Oracle Private Cloud at Customer, visit

oracle.com/engineered-systems/private-cloud-appliance/cloud-at-customer.