Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic...
by ganstyles on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:10PM
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No, it is really trash. It's down there with IBM cloud. I've worked with it (and IBM) extensively, and with AWS/GCP (but not azure too much yet, interestingly). Depending on what you want AWS/GCP/Azure are largely fungible, Oracle and IBM are really lacking just about everything you could want, and I would be hesitant to call them "cloud" except by the barest definition of the word. Also worked with another one, who I won't name, but scaling your instances required filling out paperwork and sending it in. Oracle wasn't quite that bad, but they're down there.
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Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic...
by lucianf on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @09:41AM
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That's really unfounded, unless you're talking about an experience you had years ago when the platform was still in the early stages.
The current Gen 2 cloud (OCI) is very much capable. I would strongly suggest you either have a high level look at the products available (start here [1]), peruse the documentation [2], or have a go yourself with a free account [3].
Happy to continue this chat about actual products you thought were lacking, or your experience.
[1] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/ [2] https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/en-us/ [3] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free
Re:Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Mic...
by ganstyles on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:07PM
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Last worked with it maybe a year ago. I have a lot of SRE experience so deal with this stuff directly, and I'm giving you my experience and the experiences of my colleagues. It's anecdotal of course, but not unfounded.