オラクル、VMwareのサポートは「ショートカット」ではないと主張
オラクルはオラクルクラウドVMwareソリューションをすべての商用クラウドリージョンに拡大し、オラクルがクラウドライバルによって提供される他の「ショートカット」実装よりも優れていると主張するVMware統合を導入しました。Oracle expanded its Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to all of its commercial cloud regions, putting into place a VMware integration that Oracle claims is superior to other “shortcut” implementations offered by its cloud rivals.
The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution was initially announced last fall. The word-jumble-name-of-a-service (WJNOaS) pairs VMware Cloud Foundation with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and allows customers to migrate VMware workloads between their on-premises data centers and Oracle’s public cloud using consistent infrastructure and tools. The service relies on Layer 2 networking in the cloud and on Oracle’s bare metal service.
Clive D’Souza, senior director of OCI engineering at Oracle, explained this combination provides greater control and security for customers because the platform does not retain perpetual access to a customer’s administrator and root credentials. Oracle notes that similar services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) retain that information.
“This design reflects our ‘zero-trust’ operating model, which assures customers that we remove ourselves from their environments after a solution is deployed in their tenancy,” D’Souza wrote in a blog post.
The service is available in all of Oracle’s 19 commercial cloud regions, including the San Jose cloud region it announced earlier this week, and its recently announced Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Oracle also provides technical support for Oracle software running in VMware environments on-premises data centers and Oracle-certified cloud environments.
“Other cloud vendors chose to implement a shortcut to VMware with managed or hosted solutions, but we found that approach to be limiting,” D’Souza explained of Oracle’s VMware integration superiority compared with its rivals. “It’s caused enterprise customers to hold back from migrating their virtualized environment to the cloud.”
The Oracle platform launch continues what has been ongoing updates from cloud providers centered on VMware.
It’s closest ties remain with market-leader AWS, which VMware has repeatedly said is its “primary and preferred public cloud partner.” VMware’s CFO recently stated that the partnership “had triple-digit revenue growth rates” for its most recent fiscal quarter. And VMware last month updated that partnership with new services running within AWS.
Microsoft earlier this year updated its Azure VMware Solution that allows users to migrate their existing on-premises VMware applications to Azure without needing to re-architect them first. And Google launched its Google Cloud VMware Engine that provides a fully managed VMware Cloud Foundation stack.
