What are the Impacts of Oracle Database Support Transition to the Cloud?

by Andrew Bagel-Brown Business and Marketing

Sometimes the data requirements of an organization are subject to change. When that time comes, inevitably, the databases that that organization uses are also subject to change.

If the database does not change to accommodate the organization’s new requirements, then the system fails and threatens the overall well-being of the organization.

With that said, you must find dependable and highly reliable techniques to manage your databases as an organization databases.

In fact, to ensure that you get excellent Database support, the techniques that you put into consideration should be reliable and easy to use, efficient and, above all, automated.

Towards the close of 2016, Oracle executive chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison, mentioned that the evolution of databases to the cloud would bring a significant difference compared to the more established business software.

Speaking at Oracle’s second-quarter FY2017 conference call in December last year, Ellison said that Oracle’s performance measured its cloud technology and market share to Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services.

According to him, it’s the infrastructure and databases of the two competitors that enables him to gauge the performance of Oracle databases. In his speech, Ellison also mentioned that Oracle database has a vast technical and market share lead compared to Aurora, Redshift and Amazon Web Services.

He also emphasized that as a service, Oracle cloud infrastructure runs Oracle Database workloads more efficiently, reliably and faster.

This has been seen as a remarkable change at least in terms of the costs. When Oracle database is running on Amazon’s Iaas, it is seen to spend a bit too much compared to when the database is running on the Oracle cloud infrastructure.

Some of the effects of the transitioning of database to the cloud are;

Customers will pay every month for the SaaS (software-as-a-service) - before, customers paid an annual support cost for using the application.

Moving away from the old ways, Oracle is encouraging its customers to move from the on-premises application and embrace the new and improved cloud applications.

Not only is the mode of payment more simplified, but also the costs of software licenses have significantly dropped.

Oracle’s database revenue is set to grow tremendously. Owing to the fact that database-as-a-service income grew to 100 Million Dollars during the previous year’s quarter, it is only a matter of time it happened again.
Fortunately, for other workloads, organizations can maintain their Oracle Database license while still tapping into the cloud infrastructure service application.

But even as the organizations get to keep their existing Oracle database, they are also expected to move to a pay-as-you-go computing service infrastructure just like it is in Amazon Web Services.

With Oracle’s new IaaS, organizations will be able to move workloads with zero to minimal redraft of their applications and/or architecture.

According to Ellison, this will be an easy lift and smooth shift to the cloud. All that is required is for an organization to press a button, move the database, move the workflow and the system runs smoothly. “You can just move it, and it will run,” Ellison explained.