Embarking on any cloud migration plan means evaluating a wide selection of public, private or hybrid cloud options. Depending on your organization, your needs and requirements will differ based on custom workload, database, storage, integration, connectivity, networking and security requirements.
Evaluating whether to continue running custom applications in an on-premises environment or migrate them to the cloud is an important and potentially complex decision. There are a lot of issues to sort out, including which apps to move and to what kind of cloud environment and in what form: as is, updated, refactored or built anew as cloud-native applications.
When evaluating your options for migrating custom applications, among the key steps to take are:
- Perform a workload assessment.
- Conduct an analysis of pricing and licensing issues and tradeoffs.
- Undertake a comprehensive assessment of cloud providers.
- Ensure that performance of the migrated applications will continue to meet the guidelines of service-level agreements.
But once you understand and embrace the benefits of migrating custom applications to the cloud, it’s vital to recognize that this is not an event but rather a journey. CIOs, CTOs, cloud architecture leaders and other key IT decision-makers must develop a thoughtful strategy for actually getting it done, as easily, efficiently and successfully as possible.
One of the most important things to keep in mind is that not all cloud service providers are the same. Some may lack expertise in certain workload areas, some may be inclined to focus only on certain infrastructure brands, and others may have a pricing model that doesn’t work well for your needs.
Why Consider Oracle as Your Cloud Provider?
As a leader in databases, applications, hardware infrastructure and cloud services, Oracle has a unique view on what it takes to help organizations migrate their essential custom applications to the cloud, properly and efficiently.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) spans a wide range of hardware and software services to create a high-performance, resilient, reliable and scalable environment for migrating mission-critical workloads. Customers benefit from access to a wide range of cloud services that ensure their cloud migration goes smoothly and that applications continue to perform at peak efficiency and performance. OCI options include:
- Self-service analytics
- Multi-tenant data management and integration services
- Vault service to manage encryption keys
- Managed Kubernetes service and a CI/CD toolchain to facilitate the development and deployment of container-based cloud-native applications
- Storage gateway to connect on-premises applications with OCI using efficient, proven object storage solutions
- Application management and monitoring
- Security services built into the infrastructure and platform services
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Download NowOracle’s cloud infrastructure options help customers support custom application migrations more efficiently and with greater reliability and security than other cloud platforms. The Oracle advantage includes the ability to:
- Deploy the same public cloud infrastructure in an on-premises environment.
- Migrate workloads with confidence that applications will perform at the same levels as they have in on-premises settings.
- Migrate and run any workload as is, without reengineering, tweaking or recoding.
- Simplify and automate security with Oracle’s zero-trust approach to ensure the highest level of confidence that applications, data, identities and access are properly protected without having to dedicate a large number of security engineers to the process.
- Reduce risk with Oracle’s unique SLAs, which can be tailored to an organization’s needs.
- Avoid cost surprises with predictable, subscription pricing models that can be easily adjusted up or down as needs dictate.
Oracle’s legacy in both databases and business applications is well established, and its broad line of hardware solutions—powered by third-generation IntelÒ XeonÒ processors—form the basis for many of the largest and most successful cloud computing environments in the world.
Oracle also brings a number of application migration tools and services to bear for its clients, including Oracle Cloud Lift Services, a white-glove service that helps customers move their custom apps at no cost. And a new family of services, Oracle Cloud@Customer, effectively brings most public cloud services to the customer’s on-premises environment. Not only does this help save on potentially large Capex expenses, but it also ensures that organizations maintain full control of, and access to, their data, helping alleviate issues related to data sovereignty, security, governance, compliance and performance.
Oracle’s custom application migration programs are designed for maximum flexibility by supporting any of multiple migration options: lift and shift, refactor, modernize or implement a full-blown cloud-native redevelopment.
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