Executive Summary Oracle has long-term competition from SAP and Microsoft. Find out why AWS is the biggest threat of all to Oracle. Introduction Oracle is obsessed with AWS. Over the past couple of years, Oracle’s marketing machine has been completely fixated on Amazon’s cloud business. I knew something was up when Larry used most of…
Executive Summary Gartner rates Oracle and IBM as tier 2 clouds. We explain what does this means for these companies and their cloud future. Introduction Audience: IT and business executives – IT procurement & operations professionals – Developers. Summary: As of April 2018, Gartner classifies AWS, Microsoft, and Google as Tier 1 clouds. IBM and…
Executive Summary How Oracle Cloud Infrastructure works regarding its target service availability level. Considering the big picture regarding OCI and service level. Introduction Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a range of IaaS and PaaS offerings. The graphic below is an overview. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references for this…
Executive Summary AWS and GCP have taken over thought leadership from SAP and Oracle. What this transition means for the cloud. Video Introduction: How to Understand Thought Leadership Transition from SAP and Oracle to AWS and Google Cloud Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) For a time, Oracle provided a distinctly differentiated product…
Executive Summary We migrated our application Brightwork Explorer to AWS. We described our experiences with AWS and what it means for future application migrations. Introduction Brightwork Research & Analysis recently engaged in a development effort to create an application that could help companies monetize forecast error (rather than using the typical forecast error measurements) and…
Executive Summary AWS is being combined with VMware Cloud for AWS to provide hybrid cloud capabilities. What this means for on-premises environments. Introduction AWS is becoming increasingly popular, but until very recently, there was an extra hurdle if you wanted to introduce AWS into your on-premises environment. And most of the infrastructure globally is by…
Executive Summary SAP makes continuous arguments against AWS and GCP. How valid is this argument against the cloud from SAP? Video Introduction: How to Respond to SAP’s Arguments Against AWS and GCP Text Introduction (Skip if You Watched the Video) SAP consulting partners usually will only know how to repeat the arguments that come…
Executive Summary Oracle makes the argument that AWS is only migrating non-critical databases. How valid is this argument against the cloud from Oracle? Introduction Oracle has argued that the databases migrated to AWS aren’t mission-critical. “So, sure, you can do test/dev and run small non critical Databases as many have been doing for years on…
Executive Summary Oracle makes the argument that AWS does not provide sufficient uptime. How valid is this argument against the cloud from Oracle? Introduction Oracle has questioned these SLAs, as is presented in the following quotation. Our References for This Article If you want to see our references for this article and other related Brightwork…
Executive Summary Oracle makes the argument that bare metal is preferable in most circumstances to the cloud. How valid is this argument against the cloud from Oracle? Introduction Now let us get to a second Oracle argument against AWS: a more direct argument for bare metal versus cloud. Our References for This Article If you…