Oracle announced the broadest array of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings in the industry, which include bare metal cloud servers that are 11.5 times faster and 20 percent cheaper than the fastest solution offered by the competition. The new additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform allows customers to get the best of both multi-tenant and single-tenant environments and include Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services, Oracle Ravello Cloud Service, Oracle Container Cloud Service and enhancements to existing Oracle Cloud services.
 
While the business benefits of the public cloud are increasingly clear, organisations experience a myriad of performance, security and management concerns that mean they cannot ignore all of their existing IT practices and move all workloads to a multi-tenant cloud world. The latest improvements to Oracle’s IaaS portfolio help organisations address this challenge by providing the ability to harness the benefits of Cloud while keeping many of the benefits provided by a corporate data centre.
 
Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services are a high-scale public cloud offering and include bare metal cloud servers in a fully virtualised network environment. The innovation channels high performance database-as-service, network block storage, object storage and VPN connectivity. Besides, Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services offer a secure, private and high-performance software defined Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) that enables customers to treat Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services as a secure and elastic extension of their on-premise network. Additionally, Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services boost network throughput by providing direct connectivity between compute and storage nodes.
 
The regional deployment of Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services comprises of three completely fault-independent availability domains that allow customers to build high availability, high durability applications in the Cloud. Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services interoperates with existing Oracle Cloud Platform offerings, assisting customers build mission critical applications that take full advantage of available services on the Oracle Cloud.
 
Oracle Bare Metal Services are designed with a fundamentally differentiated approach to Cloud platform development that provides customers choice and flexibility on their journey to the Cloud. This included ultra-dense compute servers that offer the industry’s best performance for enterprise workloads as well as the highest IOPS and the highest bandwidth storage servers available anywhere in public cloud offerings. As a result, customers can achieve 10 times the throughput and IOPS of the best offering on competing Clouds, at a lower price. In addition to high performance, by not having software run on the compute hosts, Oracle is able to reduce potential points and deliver the best possible security available in Cloud.
 
Oracle also announced Oracle Ravello Cloud Service, the general availability of Oracle Container Cloud Service and several significant improvements to existing Oracle IaaS offerings.  
 
Oracle Ravello Cloud Service enables organisations to take enterprise VMware and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) workloads and run them in the public cloud without any changes. Customers can run VMware natively on public cloud without requiring VM conversion, application reconfiguration or networking changes, along with Oracle Ravello Cloud Service. It is also the only service in the industry that allows enterprises to have full L2 and L3 networking flexibility in the public cloud.
 
Additionally, Oracle Container Cloud Service offers organisations with a Docker-compatible way to utilise application stacks with one click. Registry integration capabilities, enterprise-grade application orchestration, and application scheduling and service scaling abilities make the Oracle Container Cloud Service a uniquely compelling option for cloud developers.
 
On top of that, Oracle also introduced Oracle FastConnect – Standard and Partner editions – to help customers reliably and securely connect their datacentre to the Cloud. With the addition of Oracle FastConnect, Oracle now provides some of the widest connectivity and peering options available in the industry, comprising IPsec VPN for easy setup, MPLS to connect to existing enterprise networks and Fast Connect for quick peering.
 
Oracle Cloud Platform offerings now also support Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, Oracle Big Data Cloud Service and Oracle Event Hub Cloud Service in addition to unparalleled support for Oracle’s existing Platform-as-a-Service offerings.
 
According to Thomas Kurian, President of Product Development, Oracle, “As more and more enterprises leverage the Cloud, they want a simple, seamless way to migrate their large and complex IT infrastructures to the Cloud, and to use the security and management controls that their IT teams already know.” He then noted, “The latest additions to the Oracle Cloud Platform enable organizations to seamlessly connect their existing resources to the Oracle Cloud using Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) and select from a wide variety of compute services including bare metal, virtual machines and engineered systems as if it were a part of their own datacentre.”
 
Meanwhile, Ben Lackey, lead partner at DataStax said, “We have been very impressed by how easy it is to use Oracle’s Bare Metal Cloud Services. The DataStax Enterprise clusters we’ve deployed are running blazingly fast, with sub-micro second latency, and these are key business drivers for us.” He added, “Additionally, the multiple availability domains per region, allows us to bring our mission critical, high availability workloads to Oracle’s Bare Metal Cloud.”
 
Also, Patrick Sullivan, managing partner and Oracle global technology lead at Accenture stated, “We are excited about the results we are seeing with Oracle’s Bare Metal Cloud, with regard to the architecture, performance and scalability.”