Good new year to you! I trust that if you are reading this then you survived the Christmas and New year break and hopefully took some time off to spend it with family and friends.
Last year, brought a ramp up in the adoption of Cloud services among many organisations – probably not as much as a lot of folks thought to warrant the term ‘shift’, but certainly the maturity of what we perceive to be cloud computing (and what it is not) led to more and more firms asking themselves – How we can do this better and more cost effectively?
This is largely due to the massive number of vendors in the ICT universe, now marketing their offerings as “cloud-ready” – Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, and HPE are some of the notable larger players who are now aligning to this new phenomenon along with other smaller vendors now claiming to offer a path to adopting cloud computing.
One of the pitfalls of heading down the cloud path is that companies are finding out that some legacy services simply cannot transform. More often than not, this is due to the fact that the hardware platforms that exist in newer public cloud providers do not resemble their on-premises infrastructure and architecture.
The fallout from this difference is that their most critical applications are no longer performing as expected, proven or even supported leaving their business at risk. So a lot of companies want cloud, but simply cannot (or perhaps will not) transform to be able to adopt it due to this risk.
Let me pose a question to you – if you are considering cloud but have held off until now due to the unknown risks associated with the change). “What is the fundamental reason for the reluctance?”
Perhaps cost is an inhibitor, or perhaps it is the unpredictability of the transformation and how things are going to look and perform on the other side that has kept your business from traveling down the cloud road.
Whatever it is, it is not always possible that you can lift and shift all services to the cloud – at a conservative view, for every single CPU associated with Oracle Database, there is at least three CPU’s of other workloads tied to that database which relies on it. When you put it in this context, the task at hand to transform your business to be cloud-enabled seems enormous!
My next post will cover what Oracle is doing in regards to this transformation and managing change and risk by providing predictability and like-for-like performance for your Oracle database environment as well as other workloads you may have.
I will further discuss Oracle’s view on the journey to the cloud and how it can help you:
- Streamline Enterprise IT on-premises to be cloud ready should you ever need it
- Expand your Private Cloud
- Deploy a Hybrid Cloud
- Bring Public Cloud onto your Premises
- Lift and Shift to Public Cloud
Stay tuned!
