Highlights –

  • Oracle is adding greater new AMD-based 32, 34, and 128 core options to Oracle Cloud VMware solutions for VMware customers.
  • Oracle has launched new Content Delivery Network (CDN) services that will make it easier and cheaper for companies in terms of networking.

Oracle has rolled out a series of new cloud tools spanning storage, networking, and computing. While they serve different purposes, they have been designed to be flexible and easy to use – and break the myths that have held businesses back from embracing the cloud.

Oracle established itself in the cloud market by focusing on the demands of enterprise customers, most of which have legacy technology to contend with. Oracle’s cloud revenue, the company reported, now comes to more than USD 11 billion annually.

While just about every business is now using the cloud to some degree, some organizations have been steady to move critical workloads to the cloud.

Features like auto-tuning block storage will surely benefit Oracle’s customers like Cox Automotive. The firm runs Manheim auto auctions online, high performance is required only when people are bidding on cars. Aside from benefiting from OCI’s flexibility, Oracle did not have to rewrite its older applications instead of migrating its E-Business Suite to OCI.

Oracle has launched new Content Delivery Network (CDN) services that will make it easier and cheaper for companies in terms of networking. The company’s new CDN Interconnect performs direct peering connections with third-party CDN providers, which means customers will not have to pay for outbound bandwidth for OCI Object Storage. OCI currently offers this capability in North America for Cloudflare CDN.

Oracle also offers a new native CDN Service that lets customers deliver digital content to end-users from a nearby location in the geographically distributed network. Customers gain from integrated APIs, UCM billing, and more vital integrations from the console.

The new networking services include a new Web Application Firewall (WAF) that enables customers to define a single WAF policy to protect their apps from common exploits and enforce policy on a load balancer or on edge.

Experts’ view

“We’re very focused on providing elasticity for customers without having to rewrite applications,” Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VP Leo Leung told ZDNet. “A lot of the premise of the cloud is that you have to be cloud-native to get optimization of resources, and we don’t think that’s true.”

“With all of the customers we talk to — 70% to 80% of their applications, they’re never going to rewrite,” Leung said. “These are applications they’ve had for a long time. The other myth is that pricing has to be complicated because there are so many services and options… Pricing can be very, very simple. Another myth is you might start with one architecture and set of resources and have to change as you scale globally. We also think that’s not true.”