Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is expanding with 11 new compute, networking, and storage services and capabilities that enable customers to run their workloads faster and more securely at lower costs. New offerings provide customers with truly flexible core infrastructure services, automatically optimising resources to match application requirements and significantly reduce costs. Leading global organisations including Vodafone, Samsung Securities, GoTo and Cox Automotive rely on OCI to run all types of workloads, from microservices to AI.
Oracle stated that global cloud adoption continues to expand rapidly as business models transform and the demand for secure remote technology accelerates. However, the vendor noted that a variety of prevailing public cloud misconceptions are still holding companies back from realising the full benefits of the cloud.
“OCI continues to break the rules in the cloud, helping customers run their workloads faster, more securely, and more economically,” said Clay Magouyrk, Executive Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Customers can build cloud native apps on OCI with support for open, standards-based Kubernetes, while AI and high-performance computing customers can build some of the fastest computing clusters in the cloud.”
“We selected OCI to run our video conferencing,” said Sascha Kuemmel, Vice President, Technology Strategy, GoTo. “Moving this workload required zero re-writing of applications because of OCI’s Kubernetes compatibility and networking features. We saved 50 percent on our IT costs through more efficient use of resources and lower bandwidth fees.”
Dave McCarthy, Research Vice President, Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Services, IDC, added: “The promise of the cloud has always been paying for only what you need, but customers continue to over-provision due to rigid configuration options in most cloud platforms. OCI has made significant strides to address this problem by introducing new flexible compute, storage, and network infrastructure services over the last year. OCI customers can reduce costs by more accurately matching consumption to demand.”
These new OCI services and capabilities are planned for 2022.
