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The latest addition to the industry ’ s first distributed cloud portfolio is now available as a single rack in customer data centers .

“ Users want a consistent experience , regardless of where services are running , which is why we continue to invest in our distributed cloud strategy with the launch of Compute Cloud @ Customer ,” said Edward Screven , Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle .

With Compute Cloud @ Customer , customers can develop , deploy , secure and manage workloads using the same software stack as OCI in implementations as small as a single rack .

The Oracle Compute Cloud @ Customer allows organizations to run applications and middleware on OCI computing , storage and networking services with flexible virtual machine ( VM ) configurations in their data centers .

When combined with Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer , it is the ideal platform for workloads tightly integrated with Oracle databases . Organizations can use the same OCI services in their data centers and Oracle Cloud regions , while developers and IT managers can use the same APIs and management tools to provide a consistent user experience anywhere .

Organizations can also consolidate existing workloads and deploy new cloud-native applications on a fully managed cloud platform in their data center , enabling them to leverage the OCI ’ s economical consumption model to simplify operations and reduce costs .

“ Oracle offers options for OCI public cloud regions , Dedicated Region and Cloud @ Customer platforms that customers can combine to create a globally distributed cloud solution . With this option , customers can more easily achieve their strategic business goals in the cloud , meet data residency requirements and access highperformance connections to latency-sensitive applications and existing data centers .”

With architecture for high performance and high availability , Compute Cloud @ Customer can be easily expanded to meet the small and large needs of organizations , each with a different distributed cloud implementation scenario . Starting with 552 processor cores and 150 TB of usable storage ( block , file and / or object ), Compute Cloud @ Customer can scale compute and storage independently to over 6,000 processor cores and 3.4 PB of storage capacity .

Unlike on-premises offerings from other public cloud providers that are assembled from third-party components or have very limited resources , Oracle Compute Cloud @ Customer is a fully integrated cloud platform installed , controlled and managed by Oracle . It is fully compatible with OCI public cloud regions and OCI Dedicated Region and offers the same core OCI cloud services at the same low price . These features reduce maintenance and upgrade burdens for customers , allowing them to develop and run cloud-native applications anywhere .

“ For organizations looking to deploy on-premises cloud services , the message is ‘ go big or stay put ’,” said Ron Westfall , Research Director at The Futurum Group .

“ Many on-premises cloud services are warmed-over hardware boxes wrapped with financial engineering tools or offer 1 / 10th of the resources of their public cloud counterparts . Oracle ’ s latest offering , Compute Cloud @ Customer , clearly goes against this trend and delivers the same computing , storage , networking , APIs , control plane and a growing list of services that are also available on OCI . The product is part of the company ’ s strategic distributed cloud strategy and , as such , is a complete on-premises cloud experience , not a ‘ proof of concept ’ like other cloud providers are selling .” p

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