Oracle Magazine, September/October 2017
INTERVIEW Businesses need an easy on ramp to the cloud that allows them to move their existing on premises applications and systems ORACLE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2017 14 Infrastructure as a service IaaS offerings may have started out as a way to replace data center hardware but next generation IaaS technology is focused on more than replacing on premises networking compute and storage with cloud services Today cloud vendors and businesses are looking at how IaaS can better support IT and better enable the businesses that run infrastructure services Oracle Magazine caught up with Marc Levy vice president and architect of software development at Oracle to talk about the state of IaaS technology and what businesses are looking for in IaaS today Oracle Magazine Just a couple of years ago IaaS technology was focused on networking compute and storage services What is the state of IaaS today Levy IaaS is evolving but it still enables customers to build their own virtual networks their own clouds on a foundation of networking compute and storage technologies This also describes the first generation of IaaS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Oracles IaaS offering is a sort of rethink of the public cloud This next generation technology continues to focus on the key characteristics associated with cloud including scalability elasticity and low friction provisioning but it adds a focus on flexibility performance governance and control integration and more Oracle Cloud Infrastructure still enables businesses to build their own clouds but its also enabling those businesses to migrate to the cloud in more powerful and flexible ways Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers higherperformance networking for example which allows businesses to provision instances of Oracle Exadata on demand and on their own virtual network So they can migrate highperformance database centered applications essentially as is In addition PaaS platform as a service services leverage the unique capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure For example a container service running on a bare metal machine avoids
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