Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution with the Capacity On Demand option.

History of development

2022

Oracle cloud allowed to keep secret Pentagon data

On February 15, 2022, Oracle announced that it could now host on its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform some data from US federal government missions related to top secret/highly sensitive information (TS/SCI) and special access programs.

According to the company, Department of Defense experts granted it the right to operate, or ATO, to safely process some of the most important US Air Force data in areas that the company calls Oracle National Security Regions. These computing zones, located in airspace, are connected only to government networks, but not to the rest of the Internet.

Oracle cloud allowed to store secret Pentagon data

Experts of the Ministry of Defense granted the right to operate (ATO), which will allow you to safely process some of the most sensitive data of the Air Force, the company said in a press release.

Oracle has long provided high performance, availability, and open computing for the Department of Defense and the intelligence community to securely execute the most demanding, critical secret workloads, said Glen Dodson, senior vice president of Oracle in the national security group. - Oracle's extensive data management and analytics services, including built-in artificial intelligence, are an extremely valuable addition to the Department of Defense's multi-cloud strategy.

ATO applies only to US Air Force data, but the company expects to post secret data of other departments over time, having received accreditation in the future. Only two companies - Amazon Web Services and Microsoft - received Defense Information Systems Agency accreditation at level 6 to host data at all levels of state classification, but Oracle's latest accreditation continues to compete between several cloud giants who are constantly fighting for important and profitable contracts from the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.

Obtaining ATO is often the most time consuming part of deploying a new technical system or software at the Department of Defense. This is an official statement of the authorized body, in which the acceptance of the risk to the operations of the agency is clearly expressed.^[1]

Integrated DevOps services based on the OCI cloud platform

On January 25, 2022, Oracle announced that CI (continuous integration) capabilities based on the OCI DevOps service became available to users of the OCI cloud platform. The updated set of tools complements the CD platform (continuous deployment) already announced in 2021 and forms the CI/CD complex in all commercial OCI regions. Developers can now make source Comita in the DevOps repository, create and test software, and download validated versions in the OCI repository for deployment on OCI platforms.

OCI DevOps

According to the company, whether developers create native applications for cloud environments or migrate existing loads to OCI, the service DevOps optimizes the complexity of the software deployment process. With updated functionality, DevOps developers can automate each phase of the application lifecycle, enabling faster releases and fewer errors.

With the advent of OCI services DevOps such as Code Repositories and Build Pipelines, solution users have a complete CI/CD platform that optimizes software delivery within OCI and optimizes development processes.

By launching the project, the user can use DevOps as a comprehensive OCI-based CI/CD platform. Mirroring existing repositories GitHub or GitLab in OCI Code Repositories optimizes the creation of software assemblies. By accepting the next Comitas, the user can start DevOps Build Pipelines and quickly deploy the updated version of the software on the OCI platform - computing nodes (virtual machines and Bare Metal), OKE Kubernetes clusters and at the Functions level.

If the user migrates an existing application (from the on-prem infrastructure or from another cloud) to OCI, the updated tools also allow you to migrate development and deployment management to OCI. The OCI service is DevOps flexible enough to set up integration with already created CI/CD practices. And if the user wants to migrate loads while maintaining an existing CI process (for example, to Jenkins), you can only transfer deployment to the DevOps service and use additional triggers to work with the existing CI pipeline. As a result, it becomes possible to orchestrate the release cycle using single DevOps control tools.

Oracle Cloud

The OCI service is DevOps part of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This allows OCI users to opt out of managing a separate CI/CD platform and configure access policies for team members via IAM. OCI DevOps also protects the entire software process by granular control of access to OCI resources. Artifacts created during the operation of software assemblies will be stored in OCI Artifact repositories. Application protocols and deployment results are stored in the OCI Logging service. At any time, you can obtain the necessary information for audits and control. Team members can subscribe to notifications of DevOps pipeline events through OCI Notifications.

The DevOps service does not require licensing fees for the number of users. You can only pay for the processing power and storage capacity required to run the pipelines and repositories. The DevOps service automates the management of software assemblies and makes it possible to work with multiple competitive versions of the software without additional settings for supporting hosts. OCI DevOps allows you to track the entire software development lifecycle - from source repositories, assembly and deployment pipelines, to pointers, artifacts, and environments.

Build Pipelines features include integration of tests at the software build instruction level. Deployment Pipelines allow you to create progressive delivery releases and verify the impact of recent changes during development and in real-world environments prior to production. Directly from the DevOps environment, it is possible to restore the previous state of any components if any problems are detected in real operating conditions.

2021

AI Tools for Cloud Services

On November 10, 2021, Oracle introduced Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI services, which allow you to implement artificial intelligence-based solutions in enterprise systems even without deep expertise in the field of Data Science. The updated OCI AI tools provide developers with access to ready-made models based on common business-oriented practices, along with the capabilities to train algorithms on the organization's own data. Six services will help developers solve a wide range of complex tasks from working with a natural language and computer vision to forecasting events.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

According to the company, in 2021, almost all companies can use AI to optimize their business and create customer experience. However, in most cases, such initiatives face many obstacles - from the lack of expertise in the field of Data Science and the difficulties in training models on relevant data to the introduction of a suitable platform and processing of their own databases. As a result, companies spend valuable resources and time instead of using AI tools ready to work with already introduced business applications.

As a provider of business applications and cloud services, Oracle offers AI solutions that allow customers to get results for a wide range of business processes. Among them are:

• OCI Language: Allows you to implement text analytics practices for a deep understanding of unstructured text in documents, feedback from customers, calls to support services, posts in social media. Thanks to the already prepared OCI models, Language eliminates the need for machine learning experts, offering developers to embed tools for analyzing meanings, extracting key phrases, classifying texts, and so on.
• OCI Speech: provides the ability to automatically recognize speech through already built-in models trained in thousands of samples of conversations of native speakers and foreigners. The module allows you to recognize speech in real time and turn audio recordings into accurate text, opening up opportunities for searching sections, indexing content and advanced analysis of audio and video recordings.
• OCI Vision: A pre-trained computer vision system is used for image recognition and document analysis. The tool allows you to expand the capabilities of a solution for any industry or conduct training for specific cases, such as monitoring specific areas, detecting defects and processing complex documents. OCI Vision can be used to detect visual anomalies in production, extract texts from forms, count goods, and automate business processes.
• OCI Anomaly Detection: offers a ready-made platform for creating specific models for detecting anomalies in the early stages. This approach allows you to solve problems faster, reducing their negative impact on operational processes. OCI Anomaly Detection has REST APIs and SDKs for several programming languages, which allow developers to integrate anomaly detection modules into their business applications. The module is based on the patented MSET2 algorithm, which is used worldwide to analyze complex processes, such as the state of nuclear reactors.
• OCI Forecasting: opens up the possibility of building time forecasts based on machine learning and static algorithms without the need for Data Science expertise. OCI Forecasting helps developers create accurate predictive systems for critical business metrics, including parameters such as product demand, profit, resource requirements, and so on.
• OCI Data Labeling: Helps users carry out data markup for further training of AI models. Users can collect data, create and view data sets, and label records through the user interface or through custom APIs. Marked datasets can be exported and used to develop models in any Oracle AI services, including OCI Vision or, for example, OCI Data Science.

OCI AI services are the basis of the Oracle AI family of solutions, a set of finished products based on artificial intelligence, machine learning and Data Science. These include Oracle Digital Assistant, as well as OCI Data Science and Oracle Database Machine Learning, solutions that are used to create, manage, and implement machine learning models.

As a contact center service provider, Bosch Service Solutions uses OCI AI Services Digital Assistant and speech recognition technologies so that users can communicate with BETO, Bosch chat bots, in a natural language. Thanks to OCI AI Services, our customers can contact the company in Portuguese using clear voice commands. told Kiria Fernandez, head of Bosch Service Solutions in Brazil

The combination of OCI AI Services and OCI Data Science with NVIDIA RAPIDS enables data professionals and developers to optimize the full range of NVIDIA GPU-based machine learning and Data Science processes. told Eun Buck, Senior Vice President and Chief Executive of Accelerated Computing at NVIDIA

OCI View GoldenGate

Oracle On April 29, 2021, the corporation introduced the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) GoldenGate service. The out-of-the-box product automates many features, including configuration, load scaling, and patching, while maintaining high availability. An intuitive interface allows non-administrators databases to manage digital transformation by simplifying integration local systems with, cloudy regional synchronization data , data pipelines, and database replication across multiple clouds. The service is fully integrated with GoldenGate Stream Analytics for OCI and implements streaming data analytics in several clouds using and, AI machine learning geospatial data and time series data. OCI console web application GoldenGate simplifies deployment and provides easy configuration and continuous monitoring.

In just a few clicks, GoldenGate will allow you to start data replication and lay the foundation for real-time data integration, which will ensure data replication between various local and cloud systems and SaaS services of the three providers, and much more. The following is an example of real-time replication between two standalone Oracle databases located in different OCI regions.

Since the OCI service GoldenGate created on the basis of Oracle GoldenGate, it is fully managed: the network, physical storage, security of the replication service are pre-configured, configured and ready for use. The components of the OCI service are GoldenGate constantly updated. As for updates for local installations of GoldenGate, in OCI GG, users will receive notifications, and will also be able to install a patch on the local OGG through the OCI interface. Which allows OCI GoldenGate to become a single GoldenGate infrastructure management center.

Finally, perhaps the most important quality of the OCI GoldenGate service is its affordable price. You can now start working with OCI GoldenGate for less than $1,000 per month. This price makes the OCI service GoldenGate accessible to enterprises of all sizes. Moreover, no other provider offers such real-time data factory services. OCI GoldenGate provides a powerful, affordable and easy-to-use data factory service without additional fees or restrictions.

2020

Application Provisioning in the Oracle Cloud

Application Provisioning in the Oracle Cloud

2018

Comprehensive Security Services

On October 26, 2018, the corporation Oracle announced updated technologies cloudy safety that help customers provide from data protection kernels the periphery of the cloud. In infrastructures addition to the self-protection and self-patching capabilities of autonomous, databases Oracle Autonomous Database as well as integration machine learning intelligent automation for remediation, threats updated cloud services allow customers to increase the security of applications deployed in the latest generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Cloud services for October 2018 include:

• Firewall for web applications to protect against attacks on web traffic
• Protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks that prevent external parties from disrupting running applications
• An integrated cloud security broker that monitors and secures configurations
• a key management service that allows clients to control the encryption of their data.

Technologies such as clouds, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things enable organizations to innovate and reduce costs. However, together with the opportunities that have appeared, risks increase, including an increased attack zone. Security professionals rely on manual processes and disparate tools that increase the likelihood of human error and take too long to accurately detect and respond to threats and disruptions. Oracle has developed integrated defense echelons designed to protect users, applications, data, and IT infrastructure.

Organizations face persistent sophisticated security threats from multiple parties who want to attack applications and access sensitive data. By inheriting Oracle's security expertise, emerging solutions provide customers with business continuity capabilities that make comprehensive, end-to-end protection easier than ever before. These layers of security include highly automated detection, anticipation, response, and intelligent security controls that help reduce the risk of data breaches, regulate compliance, and reduce risks in general.

To help customers deal with today's complex threats and protect data, Oracle provides the following automated security solutions:

• Web Application Firewall (WAF). Native Firewall (WAF) is designed to protect applications in the latest generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from botnets, application-level attacks, and DDoS attacks. This platform can automatically respond to threats by blocking them and warning security professionals to further investigate the incident.
• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection. As part of the upgrade to the latest generation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, all Oracle data centers are equipped with automatic detection of DDoS attacks and protection against massive DDoS attacks at layers 3 and 4 (network and transport) of the OSI model. This helps ensure that Oracle network resources are available even with a prolonged attack.
• Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). Cloud security requires continuous monitoring and enforcement of access policies to ensure that no one leaves the network or data unprotected. Oracle Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) continually checks OCI environments to ensure compliance with corporate security policies. It comes with preconfigured policies and controls so customers can deploy applications faster while reducing security and operational risks. The CASB broker also applies machine-learning-based behavioral analytics to predict threats.
• Key Management Service. Oracle Key Management enables enterprises to encrypt data with the keys they manage themselves, offers centralized key management, and provides key lifecycle monitoring capabilities. The solution uses partitions in highly available Hardware Security Modules that are isolated for each client. It is ideal for organizations that need to monitor compliance with regulatory and security management rules so that their data is encrypted where it is stored.

Enterprise SLA Extension

Oracle In February 2018, the corporation announced the expansion and addition of an SLA enterprise-level service level agreement to provide customers with additional capabilities.

The previously announced 99.995% guarantee of availability of the autonomous database Oracle Autonomous Database allowed Oracle to present a comprehensive "cloud guarantee" for IaaS with appropriate financial responsibility. With this comprehensive SLA, Oracle is now a cloud infrastructure provider offering guaranteed service levels in terms of performance, manageability, and availability - three key characteristics by which enterprises evaluate cloud infrastructure providers, the corporation emphasized.

Updated SLAs are an integral part of Oracle's strategy to deliver cloud infrastructure to enterprise workloads. SLAs now provide evidence to customers who want to move workloads to the cloud and require not only continuous availability, but also sustained performance and continuous management of the cloud infrastructure that serves their mission-critical applications and databases. In addition, Oracle plans to extend these SLAs to all standalone Oracle Cloud Platform Autonomous Services, covering databases, application development, mobile software and chat bots, application and data integration, analytics, security, and IT management.

Under the SLA, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure guarantees more than 90% of the reported performance every day of a specified month. If performance drops below this level by only 44 minutes within a month, customers can claim reimbursement in their cloud account in accordance with Oracle's service terms. In this way, it protects customers and meets the needs of businesses that want to move critical workloads to the cloud.^[2]

2017: Components upgraded

On October 9, 2017, Oracle announced improvements to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. They provide high levels of performance and reliability.

According to the company, improvements affected Compute, Networking, Edge and Storage components. They offer IT departments, developers, and analysts infrastructure services optimized for industrial enterprise applications Oracle^[3].

For most customers, high performance and reliability of enterprise applications, production workloads - a capital-intensive and resource-intensive process in their data centers and even more complex - in the public cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides a platform for industrial enterprise applications, offering the means to improve reliability and improve computing performance.

As the company said, back-office applications - enterprise resource management (ERP) systems, public external applications like e-commerce and high-performance applications like high-performance computing ( HPC) - run faster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with greater reliability and lower costs.

Oracle technologies support enterprise-level reliability by clustering local databases with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Exata as a managed cloud service. Combined with geographically distributed regional data centers, each with multiple independent fault-tolerant domains, Oracle provides a set of capabilities to increase application availability and reliability.

Improved performance was made possible through a 25 Gb/s network infrastructure without re-signing and optimized network access with DNS services.

The company introduced a hardware platform (X7) and a line of cloud service configurations. The Bare Metal Dense I/O service has 52 compute cores and 51 TB of NVMe SSD capacity SSD ; it can perform millions of I/O per second (IOPS).

The Bare Metal Standard service offers 52 cores, but can scale to 512 TB of SSD volumes, which allows you to use scenarios that require large capacity, storage capabilities.

Bare Metal Virtual Machine services will become available in formats with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 24 cores, will use fast processors and increased memory capacity of the X7 architecture.

Oracle's Bare Metal GPU services deliver high performance for intensive computing workloads used by animation researchers, analysts, developers, and professionals. GPU graphics processors are designed to process and analyze massive datasets with higher efficiency than general-purpose processors.

Dyn's integrated DNS service is available in Oracle cloud infrastructure.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers migration packages for Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, and PeopleSoft, helping customers upgrade their infrastructure in the cloud.

2014

Oracle Storage Cloud

On April 21, 2014, it became known about the release and inclusion of the new Oracle Storage Cloud service in the IaaS solutions of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a Service.

The service provides a secure and scalable object-oriented storage solution that allows you to store, access, and manage data in the cloud.

Storage Cloud offers a solution to reduce the capital and operational costs of storing high-reliability, high-security backups and archives. The service is interoperable with API the Swift OpenStack and provides access to data through REST and APIs. Java

Cloud Infrastructure Announcement

On April 9, 2014, Oracle announced the cloud service IaaS - Cloud Infrastructure.

Description

Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) with Capacity On Demand is one of the options for using optimized Oracle Engineered Systems.

Oracle IaaS helps you leverage the benefits and power of Oracle Engineered Systems directly in your enterprise environment and through monthly payments, with the ability to generate additional on-demand resources to increase power during peak load periods. The customer can choose between self-management of systems and the use of Oracle Managed Cloud Services for full management of the environment by experts. Oracle

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