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T
o succeed in todays competitive reality, busi-
nesses need to free themselves from the limita-
tions of legacy IT infrastructure. The days of
purchasing hardware and maintaining massive data cen-
ters to run IT must come to an end. Managing and main-
taining your infrastructure is simply too expensive.
Foolish Assumptions
It has been said that most assumptions have outlived their
uselessness, but I assume a couple things nonetheless:
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You have some familiarity with popular public
cloud offerings, such as Amazon Web Services
(AWS) and Microsoft Azure, but youre less aware of
Oracles cloud and portfolio of enterprise solutions.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting started with a few cloud
definitions
Addressing enterprise workload
requirements
Realizing cost and convenience
benefits in IaaS
Discovering the Oracle Cloud
Platform
Chapter 1
Challenges and
Opportunities
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n this chapter, you learn about the basics of IaaS
and cloud computing, what defines an enterprise
workload, and the value IaaS provides to businesses
seeking to deliver more innovation and agility in their
markets.
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Defining Cloud Computing
Fundamentals
The cloud has recently become a part of our modern IT
lexicon, and there are many definitions and distinctions
of different cloud deployment and service models. To try
and cut down a bit on the cloudwashing (a term Gartner
uses to refer to the marketing practice of adding the word
cloud to practically any technology product or service),
lets keep it simple.
On-demand self-service
Broad network access
Resource pooling
Rapid elasticity
Measured service
There are three basic cloud deployment models:
Public
Private
Hybrid
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Finally, there are three basic cloud service models: Soft-
ware as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS),
and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).,
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FIGURE 1-1:Different cloud service models provide different
levels of control for the enterprise.
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Characterizing the Enterprise
Workload
Enterprise applications run the business. They vary from
core mission-critical systems to customer relationship
management to social and mobile platforms to name just
a few. Every business is different, but at a very high level,
common expectations for enterprise workloads in the
cloud include the following:
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Open standards and workload/data portability:
In the cloud, there are no industry standards
governing things like application programming
interfaces (APIs). Thus, some clouds are quite
proprietary and you risk getting locked in with a
single provider. Also, with some providers, although
its relatively easy to move your applications and
data to the cloud, it can be very difficult to move
them back if your cloud strategy or needs change.
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require visibility into who is accessing which resources and
when, and theyre accustomed to delegating permissions
and granting access to resources. Systems of record and
governance simply do not change overnight. Your cloud
provider should offer the ability to extend governance to
the cloud natively with the following capabilities:
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Understanding the Value of
IaaS in the Enterprise
The motivations for businesses to adopt IaaS are diverse,
and can be broadly organized as follows:
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Introducing the Oracle
Cloud Platform
Enterprises need a cloud environment that replicates
their on-premises data center environment whether
its a virtualized core business application, a mission-
critical database on a dedicated cluster, or a fully inte-
grated and managed solution (such as Oracle Engineered
Systems) while also providing all the benefits of the
public cloud.
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workloads. Oracle provides multiple compute offer-
ings, including VMs, bare-metal instances, dedi-
cated compute, and Oracle Cloud at Customer.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Calculating compute choices
Weighing storage options
Selecting network services
Chapter 2
Exploring the
Oracle IaaS
Platform
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n this chapter, you learn about the capabilities,
features, and competitive differentiators of the Oracle
IaaS Platform.
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Oracle Cloud Platform:
Compute Service
The Oracle Cloud Platform offers a variety of compute
options to suit your organizations needs with a resilient
infrastructure service that provides rapidly provisioned
virtual machines in both single-tenant and multitenant
configurations. Oracle Cloud at Customer compute solu-
tions (discussed later in this chapter) can be hosted on a
customers premises or in the customers data center.
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Single tenant or multitenant: Do your security
and compliance requirements necessitate
infrastructure that is dedicated solely to your
organization?
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TABLE2-1 Compute Service options
Elastic Bare Metal Dedicated Oracle Cloud
Compute Compute Compute at Customer
Hosted on No No No Yes
customer
premises
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Provide two compute offerings for flexibility to run your
most demanding workloads, as well as less compute-
intensive applications, in a secure and highly available
cloud environment:
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Choose Bare Metal Compute Service when
single-tenancy is important and you need
high performance and resilience for your
production workloads.
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Compute Service, you can set up databases using the
Oracle Database Cloud or Exadata Cloud Service. Dedicated
Compute Service is also available for SPARC-based cus-
tomers that require a single-tenant environment.
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Oracle Container Service
Containers make it easy for developers to build and
deploy apps by providing preconfigured application envi-
ronments, including dependencies, rather than requiring
developers to re-create application environments every
time they stand up a new server. With containers, devel-
opers can set up an application environment once (or use
a preconfigured environment) and use it across as many
containers as needed. The Container Service provides an
easy and quick way to create an enterprise-grade con-
tainer infrastructure. It delivers comprehensive tooling
to compose, deploy, orchestrate, and manage Docker
container-based applications on the Oracle Cloud for
Dev, Dev/Test, DevOps, and cloud-native use cases.
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networking configurations. This capability enables the
business to rapidly deploy existing applications on the
public cloud without the associated infrastructure,
migration costs, and overhead.
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Bare Metal Cloud Block
Volume Service
Bare Metal Cloud Block Volume Service is high-speed
network storage capacity with seamless data protection
and recovery. Network-attached block volumes deliver
low latency and tens of thousands of IOPS per compute
instance. 256 gigabyte (GB) and 2TB block volumes offer
consistent high-performance and scalable capacity as
your data needs grow.
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large-scale data sets, long-term data retention, rich
media content, and scientific research archives, with
enterprise-grade security, resilience, and elastic scalabil-
ity. This fully managed service requires no new hardware,
thus eliminating capital expenditures as storage resources
are accessed over the Internet through REST and/or Java
APIs. Elasticity and scalability are coupled with pay-as-
you-go and subscription-based models, so you can
choose to pay only for what you use or take advantage of
reduced rates for longer commitments. Data is encrypted
in transit and at rest and you can choose whether you
want to manage the keys or have Oracle manage them for
you. You can monitor key storage metrics and manage
users and roles using a web-based graphical console.
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to easily connect applications and workflows to the Stor-
age Cloud Service.
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Using a VCN, your workload instances can connect to the
Internet (via an Internet Gateway), your on-premises
data center using an IPSec virtual private network (VPN)
connection (via a Dynamic Routing Gateway), or both.
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High availability: Active and passive logical and
physical network redundancy, including default
redundant IPSec VPN connectivity.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Looking at options for
connecting to the cloud
Recognizing the need for a
dedicated connection
Leveraging a virtual private
network over the Internet
Chapter 3
Connecting to
theOracle Cloud
Platform
T
he Oracle Cloud Network Service provides high-
throughput, enterprise-grade security, and per-
formance predictability, enabling your cloud
workloads to deliver business results. In this chapter, you
learn about your options for connecting your enterprise
to the Oracle Cloud Platform.
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Enterprise Requirements for
Connecting to the Cloud
When extending your enterprise workloads to the cloud,
how you connect your on-premises environments to the
cloud matters. The challenge for enterprises is to find a
path to the cloud that meets current needs, preserves the
usefulness and value of their existing investments, and
provides options for the future. Technical challenges for
connecting to the cloud include the following:
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(circuit) provided by a dedicated networking
partner (network service provider).
Oracle FastConnect
Oracle FastConnect extends enterprise workloads into the
Oracle Cloud Platform with a secure and dedicated
connection between your data center and the Oracle Cloud.
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To set up FastConnect, you simply provision a private,
dedicated circuit from your network service provider (such
as AT&T, CenturyLink, Verizon, and others) to connect
your locations and/or data centers to the Oracle Cloud.
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trusted boundaries, then a direct connection is
needed. Although data can be encrypted over the
Internet, it can still take unexpected hops (for
example, to a router in a foreign country) on its way
to its destination. A dedicated connection like
FastConnect provides a direct, secure connection
(with optional encryption for additional security)
from one endpoint to the other.
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Standard Layer 3 routing: FastConnect leverages
industry-standard Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
routing to manage the exchange of data between
the Oracle Cloud and your network. BGP offers
many benefits, but perhaps the most important
features are that it automatically finds the fastest
route for your data to travel from one point to
another, and it allows you to advertise routes
across other provider networks so you can
leverage two different network service providers
(such as AT&T and Verizon) for network resilience.
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can determine whether a metered or nonme-
tered option will best fit your needs.
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Some important factors that affect network
latency include the distance between your
data center and the Oracle Cloud, as well as
the connectivity type. Cost is driven by the
speed of your network service providers cir-
cuit and the Oracle FastConnect port speed
that you choose.
Oracle VPN
A VPN creates an encrypted connection to another
network over the Internet using the IP Security (IPSec)
protocol. Benefits of a VPN include the following:
Variable bandwidth
Lower reliability (relies on the availability of the
public Internet) than dedicated private connections
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Thus, VPN connections are appropriate for enterprises
that have highly fluctuating data requirements, or rela-
tively low data volumes.
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create multiple groups of instances, all with
predefined IP addresses.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Leveraging high performance in
the cloud
Keeping your archives in the cloud
Getting restless with cloud-
native applications
Taking your on-premises data
center to the cloud
Looking at lift and shift use cases
Chapter 4
Examining IaaS Use
Cases and Success
Stories
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n this chapter, you learn about common IaaS use cases
and how Oracle customers are using the Oracle Cloud
Platform to address real-world challenges and achieve
their strategic goals.
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Utilizing High-Performance
Computing
Some of the most difficult workloads to successfully exe-
cute in the public cloud are those that require massive
amounts of dedicated computing power (CPU cycles).
Often noisy neighbors in a multitenant environment
will limit the amount of CPU an application can use. Ora-
cle Bare Metal Cloud Service offers single-tenant options
where servers are dedicated entirely to one customer and,
thus, CPU cycles are never compromised.
YELLOWDOG
YellowDog provides a 3D animation rendering
service that uses a combination of crowd-sourced
and public cloud provider computing resources
to create a virtual supercomputer for animators.
Challenges
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Solutions
Results
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TIPPETT STUDIO
Tippett Studio was founded in 1984 by Phil
Tippett, just after he had received his first
Academy Award for his work on Return of the Jedi.
Today, Tippett Studio is a high-end character and
creature animation media production company.
Challenges
Solutions
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Results
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Building and Deploying
Cloud Native Apps
Many businesses are turning to the public cloud to sup-
port Agile application development methodologies and
DevOps environments. IaaS provides development teams
with the most control of infrastructure in the public
cloud, without requiring extensive hardware knowledge,
and rapid, self-service provisioning with pay-only-for-
what-you-use subscription-based pricing enabled
DevOps environments.
FLEXAGON
Flexagons FlexDeploy is a market leading
DevOps and Application Release Automation
product. It is both comprehensive (one tool
across the entire build, deploy, and release tool-
chain) and integrated (plugins and integrations
for myriad commercial and open-source tools),
supporting companies from the smallest con-
tenders to the largest enterprises.
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Challenges
Solutions
Results
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a service is now four times faster than in its pre-
vious solution.
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Read the nearby sidebar to learn how ClubCorp moved its
data center to the Oracle Cloud Platform to successfully
address integration challenges associated with it busi-
ness acquisition strategy, improve the onboarding expe-
rience for club members, and reduce overall IT costs.
CLUBCORP
With a portfolio of more than 200 golf and coun-
try clubs and business, sports, and alumni clubs
in 26 states, the District of Columbia, and two
foreign countries, ClubCorp is the largest owner
and operator of private golf, country clubs, and
business clubs in the United States. The clubs in
its network serve more than 430,000 members
and 20,000 employees.
Challenges
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Solutions
Results
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existing workloads to the cloud enables IT to be more
responsive to the business.
IRONSOURCE
ironSource builds monetization, engagement,
analytics, and discovery tools for app develop-
ers, device manufacturers, mobile carriers, and
advertisers. The company has developed a
leading application distribution platform, which
optimizes and automates the installation pro-
cess, analytics, and monetization for application
developers.
Challenges
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Solutions
Results
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Delivering performance and
predictability
Leveraging an open and flexible
cloud platform
Ensuring visibility and control
Simplifying on-premises and
cloud management
Maximizing availability and
scalability
Choosing a complete solution
Chapter 5
Ten Advantages
of Oracle IaaS
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n this chapter, we describe ten key advantages of the
Oracle Cloud Platform that enable organizations to
migrate and extend their enterprise workloads to the
public cloud.
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Performance
Application performance is characterized by latency,
input/output operations per second (IOPS), and through-
put. Different applications and architectures require
different levels of each at the right cost point. First-
generation clouds are primarily designed for cloud-
native applications, thus forcing compromises when
attempting to run more traditional applications, and
often requiring a re-architecting or greenfield rebuild of
applications.
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Predictability
Enterprises have spent many years tuning their on-
premises environments to meet the exacting standards of
predictability and reliability that their most critical
applications require. Unfortunately, early adopters of the
public cloud have had to give up much of that hard-
earned experience, particularly for traditional three-tier
application architectures.
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Availability
The Oracle Cloud Platform is built on an enterprise-
grade, fault-tolerant design that provides high availabil-
ity with cross-region replication and recovery. Users
consume infrastructure within the Oracle Cloud Platform
by first selecting what region of the world they desire to
have their workload hosted within for example, the
Western United States. Once the region desired is chosen,
there are multiple data centers known as availability
domains (ADs) within each region in which cloud
workloads can be deployed.
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links between hosts in an AD with less than 100 micro-
second (s) latency.
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Openness
Critical to Oracles approach to the cloud is giving cus-
tomers the optimum level of flexibility their businesses
require as they change over time (meaning they can use
existing skill sets and talent across all environments and
technology stacks). With that, they can run both Oracle
and non-Oracle workloads (such as third-party and
internally developed applications), connect non-Oracle
applications and Oracle solutions, and benefit from the
Oracle Cloud Platform across a wide array of deployment
types. This results in greater options regarding where
and how customers make the journey to the cloud, while
retaining more value from their current state.
Flexibilty
Oracle offers customers multiple cloud deployment
options with a complete and modern cloud architecture.
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Options are important, because the journey to the cloud
isnt just a one-way path. Some companies are moving to
the cloud as fast as possible, but many others for vari-
ous reasons havent been able to do so. With Oracle,
customers can deploy and manage their applications in a
self-service, on-demand environment on-premises, or
they can move them to the public cloud or both. When
they move, its a seamless migration because similar
technologies (same standards, same products, and uni-
fied management) are used on both sides.
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Visibility
First generation cloud providers offered services targeted
to cloud-native applications. These environments were
ideal for rogue or shadow application development
efforts (sometimes sponsored by line of business manag-
ers), but they didnt do much for the central IT group
ultimately responsible for corporate IT governance and
systems of record. In many companies, these rogue
efforts led to VM sprawl across multiple cloud providers
and costs spiraling out of control. Clearly, governance
and visibility tools are required to support the enter-
prises successful journey to the cloud.
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Control
Public cloud services are widespread and growing, but
some countries and regions within them do not offer
world-class public cloud data centers. Additionally, some
enterprises need to run their workloads within their own
data centers to meet business, legislative, and regulatory
requirements. For example, some companies and gov-
ernment agencies must keep their application develop-
ment and data processing behind corporate firewalls to
comply with security mandates or abide by data gover-
nance and compliance regulations.
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running those applications either on-premises or in the
Oracle Cloud. An extension of the Oracle Cloud, this offer-
ing resides completely within an organizations data
center, and is fully managed by Oracle.
Management
Moving to the cloud can also mean changes to the tools
and processes you use to manage and maintain your IT
infrastructure. Theres a good chance youre currently
managing both legacy systems and cloud-based assets.
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OMCs unified platform helps enterprises
improve IT stability, prevent application
outages, increase agility, and harden security
across their entire application and infra-
structure portfolio, both on premises and in
the cloud.
Scalability
One of the key advantages of the public cloud is massive
on-demand scalability. Oracle Cloud Platform provides
enterprises with scale-up and scale-out compute and
storage capacity for their most demanding workloads
andapplications. Customers pay only for what they use,
and can scale down and in when their compute and
storage needs change.
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Completeness
Enterprises need complete solutions that reduce com-
plexity. Oracle offers infrastructure integrated with plat-
form technologies (such as databases, Java, and
middleware) to create a seamless customer experience
that drives operational efficiencies, and delivers faster
innovation.
Go to https://cloud.oracle.com/tryit to
experience the Oracle Cloud Platform with a
free trial.
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