Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Key facts

First appeared

2016

Category

technology

Problem solved

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was created to address the limitations of existing first-generation cloud platforms and Oracle's own initial cloud offering (Oracle Public Cloud), which struggled to deliver the performance, consistent pricing, and enterprise-grade security required for mission-critical Oracle workloads and large-scale applications. It aimed to provide a cloud platform that could meet or exceed the performance of on-premise data centers, particularly for database-intensive applications.

Platforms

Oracle's global network of data centers (virtualized and bare-metal hardware)

Related technologies

• Oracle Database (including Autonomous Database)
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Microsoft Windows Server
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Oracle Fusion Applications
• Kubernetes (OKE)
• Python applications
• Terraform
• Java applications
• Various Linux distributions (e.g., Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS)
• Apache Kafka

Notable users

• HSBC
• BT
• Zoom (for certain workloads)
• DMG MORI
• Vodafone
• Oracle Corporation (for its own SaaS offerings)
• Nissan