Another day in the San Francisco Bay discovering the Oracle Cloud, but without clouds in the sky :=) Today I went to a session describing a customer case study on Oracle database cloud with Enterprise Manager Cloud 12c.

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Prior to deploying the database cloud, UAT activities charged the DBA team for at least 3 days (implies cost).

The IT team decided to implement DaaS (Database as a Service) because of:

  • The self-provisioning feature reduces the DBA efforts (i. e. automatic RMAN database duplication)
  • The IT productivity is improved by automating manual tasks
  • The database provisioning management is enabled as part of self-provisioning

The primary objective was to use DaaS to lead to database consolidation.

Buying a new infrastructure composed of Exadata v2.2 full racks resulting in a Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) and an Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c running on IBM blade servers, they achieved the following results:

  • They now have the capacity to really test new applications releases
  • They do not spend any time in the infrastructure to identify available resources (capacity planning)
  • Single point of configuration/monitoring: one console for all cloud components (from the OS to the database)
  • They can perform configuration drift analysis between test and production analysis
  • Databases provisioned through self-provisioning are automatically added into Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud 12c

Outside of the IT, DaaS benefits are:

  • IT costs drastically reduced
  • The efficient usage of infrastructure usage leads to a better ROI in their company
  • DBA’s became lazy

It was really interesting to follow this session as it was based on a real customer experience which is successfull. They found the balance between quality of a service and costs. Even better DBA’s have much more time to investigate for database troubleshooting.

Enjoy the Database Cloud!