The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is considered one of the most robust, reliable, and comprehensive cloud infrastructures driving strong business outcomes today. It is a public cloud that runs enterprise applications, including tools that help business leaders accelerate existing processes while aiding in strategic business decisions. However, due to OCI’s multi-faceted offerings, businesses may often find themselves at a crossroads with finding the right Managed Service Provider (MSP) that can skillfully guide them as a strategic partner in consulting, implementation, and ongoing management services for Oracle and non-Oracle workloads hosted on OCI.
Preparing for Oracle Cloud Migration: Request an OCI Readiness Assessment
In a recent report, Gartner predicted that by 2028, cloud computing would shift from being a technology disruptor to a necessary component for maintaining business competitiveness. It further states that over 50% of enterprises will use industry cloud platforms by 2028 to accelerate their business initiatives. To make cloud computing an essential business practice, a trusted MSP is crucial. Once on board, the MSP would start by setting up a readiness assessment as a first step towards adopting the OCI as a crucial component of business operations.
The OCI readiness assessment thoroughly evaluates an organization’s existing on-premise systems, applications, and security measures to determine if the organization is ready to migrate to OCI. There are several parts to creating an effective OCI readiness assessment:
- A Cloud Blueprint outlining a step-by-step approach for effective migration to OCI.
- A Reference Architecture containing guidance for cloud setup and alignment with industry regulations for compliance and security.
- OCI Best Practices list which encompasses expert recommendations for managing a robust and cost-effective cloud infrastructure.
- Recommendations which is typically a catalog of required and recommended application integrations provided as a part of the assessment and consists of a guide for choosing key integrations to optimize and unify the organization’s cloud ecosystem.
An OCI readiness assessment can prepare organizations to successfully migrate to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure while ensuring scalability and foolproofing their security and compliance measures.
Empowering Post-Cloud Migration Success with MSPs
Gartner’s recent report forecasts that all cloud market segments are expected to grow in 2024 and its analysts have called the ‘Cloud essentially indispensable’. But, following the migration to Oracle Cloud, businesses require continuous support to navigate and manage the length and breadth of Oracle’s exhaustive cloud infrastructure solutions. This support is essential as enterprises look forward to achieving long-term success with their OCI deployments. However, they often struggle with challenges such as lacking skills or low headcount.
Employing MSPs to manage a company’s OCI can quickly address these top two challenges. This is done by delivering services through Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings to support businesses at every stage of their OCI journeys. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is forecast to experience the highest end-user spending growth in 2024 at 26.6%, followed by platform-as-a-service (PaaS) at 21.5%
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):
MSPs offer cost-effective and easily scalable IT solutions through IaaS for OCI. Instead of businesses purchasing, installing, and maintaining hardware, MSPs can help them migrate enterprise workloads and manage all or part of their OCI, including complete monitoring, maintenance, patching, and planning for ongoing growth.
Platform as a Service (PaaS):
Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering provides application development and deployment by leveraging OCI to deliver hardware and software tools over the internet. MSPs work closely with Oracle to access PaaS offerings such as database services, application development frameworks, middleware, and integration tools hosted on OCI. This allows a company’s IT operations, cloud architects, or database administrators to worry less about managing their infrastructure and concentrate more on adding value to the applications within their organization.
Software as a Service (SaaS):
MSPs facilitate the adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS), allowing organizations to take full advantage of OCI and its integrated suite of applications – including ERP, SCM, HCM, and more – to connect their most critical business processes and provide consistent user experiences. Prospects for SaaS look bright as it will involve autonomous IT management, AI, and machine learning to drive more autonomy across Oracle’s cloud applications and infrastructure.
Whether it is migrating workloads, developing applications, or adopting cloud-based software, MSPs enable organizations to maximize the benefits of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure while focusing on their core business strengths.
Partnering with Managed Service Providers for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Partnering with an Oracle-focused MSP unlocks many benefits, including customized support, cost savings, and long-term strategic guidance for migrating to OCI and its management.
Having several successful Oracle Cloud engagements worldwide across different industries, Buchanan Technologies provides SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services to guide clients through their entire cloud journey. Buchanan’s OCI Managed Services accelerates its clients’ rate of innovation and application efficiency while maximizing the value of their Oracle investments.
Contact us for more information on its OCI Managed Services.
