Oracle Magazine, September/October 2017
ORACLE MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2017 34 agility Oracles IaaS vision was very compelling especially their dedicated compute platforms that we dont have to share with anybody else It improves our performance and our security Srinivasan says he was drawn to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for its performance specs citing the outstanding speed achieved with Oracles unique configuration of memory cores network fabric and storage The sheer computing power is definitely more compelling on the Oracle platform he adds Hurrell and his team now have a good read on EZCORPs transaction metrics thanks to the visibility they obtain through the application performance monitoring console that Oracle provides We can tell how long it takes users to move from one page to another how long a shopping cart takes to write back to the database and how long it takes to generate loan contracts Hurrell explains We can see exactly whats happening across all of our stores and make quick adjustments Hurrell also appreciates the inherent disaster recovery capabilities that he receives by using Oracle Cloud Were a medium size business so we dont have a lot of money to invest in a separate data center for disaster recovery purposes he says Our previous SLA was 72 hours in the event of a critical issue By moving to Oracle Cloud weve been able to set up realtime database replication in a different city and are in the process of setting up full blown disaster recovery so we can be back up and running within minutes Thats a huge step forward We are actually saving money and getting a much better service From Operations to Innovation EZCORP isnt looking to Oracle Cloud just to get out of the hardware business We are excited about the growing marketplace and ecosystem of integrated services that will help us concentrate on innovation and speed Srinivasan says such as firewalls CASB cloud access security broker mobile big data compute and streaming analytics Hurrell also plans to utilize Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Service for Oracle Public Cloud as well as Oracle platform as aservice PaaS products for these new development initiatives at EZCORP including Oracle Developer Cloud Oracle Integration Cloud Service Oracle Big Data Cloud Service and Oracle Analytics Cloud Now that Oracle is han
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