Oracle Magazine, September/October 2017
ORACLE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2017 27 I nfrastructure as a service IaaS got its start more than 10 years ago as service providers made extra computing storage and network capacity available to customers on a subscription basis These remote technology offerings gave organizations an alternative to provisioning installing and maintaining their own IT infrastructure and paved the way for individuals companies and governments to tap into unlimited data center assets Those first generation cloud offerings have become extremely popular but todays customers want more More power More versatility More control Oracle has responded with next generation IaaS offerings that combine the elasticity and utility of the public cloud with the granular control security and predictability of on premises infrastructure One of the key ideas of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure initially introduced as Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services is to meet customers where they are says Marc Levy an architect and vice president of software development at Oracle If they want to move their applications as they are they can do that And they can do that because Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supports a wide variety of compute from virtual machines to bare metal servers to engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata all in the same cloud infrastructure So customers can use the familiar infrastructure patterns they use on premises for example a very high performance engineered system and they can also adopt cloud native patterns Building on Raw Power This type of flexibility and power is perfect for companies such as Zenotech an Oracle partner that supplies cloud based solutions for computational fluid dynamics Zenotech helps engineers at aerospace companies automotive companies and civil engineering firms simulate airflow over airplane wings airflow around buildings and similar types of complex engineering challenges Its software platform and cloud brokerage service known as Elastic Private ZENOTECH Bristol UK REVENUE 500000 ORACLE PRODUCTS Oracle Cloud Infrastructure including Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute
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