Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer Reviews

The use cases include scenarios where the appliance is due for renewal or data needs to be kept on-premises rather than moved to the cloud. It leverages cloud capabilities while maintaining an on-premises infrastructure.

The operation model is the most valuable feature.

It is a very good platform, offering good performance, high availability, and resilience. We've had a positive experience with Exadata.

We've seen high performance and availability and migrated from an on-premise environment to this data platform. 

Additionally, we've experienced efficiency in administration through the use of E.C ECS skill, resulting in lowered database operational costs. 

For example, when creating a database in the on-premise environment, our DBA used to allocate eight hours. With Exadata, this process now takes merely 50 minutes.

We used to migrate some big clients to the Oracle Exadata platform. The large databases belonging to bank institutions and our main clients were moved there. Meanwhile, smaller databases were exported. 

Exporting and importing is easy because of its cleanliness, making the process easier. However, setting up the Data Guard was more difficult. Despite this, the client experienced lower downtime.

We have better control of the infrastructure with Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer. We wanted improved support compared to Oracle's standard operational services, as we trust our technicians more than external support.

Deployment solutions have become faster since we use familiar mechanisms and methods that we managed in the past. The readiness for business is faster.

We have migrated Core Banking, DWH, ODS, and several other production environments to this platform. Our goal was to successfully migrate those mission-critical Oracle Databases to the Exadata Cloud at Customer machine. It was a cross-platform migration with IBM to Oracle, Power to Intel, and AIX to Linux. We have used XTTS (Cross Platform).

We have used the cross-platform transportable tablespace method for this migration, and have accelerated it by using RMAN incremental backups to minimize the migration downtime.
We did a lot of performance testing and verified it before the migration.
We spent time readying for the migration improvements too.

Oracle Exadata has improved our organization in the following ways:

• We have reached the required disk capacity.
• We have decreased the cost of maintenance and admin operations.
• We have gained more efficient support (Single vendor support, automatic zero downtime upgrades, and fast support services).
• We have gained the ability to use an Exadata machine without having a need for Exadata Installation & Maintenence-specific knowledge.
• We have decreased the Data Center cost. We hosted this machine by getting a Data Center service from a trusted vendor. As Oracle does the machine-specific operations remotely, we didn't have to host the machine in the customer environment.
• We have migrated mission-critical databases to Exadata and gained significant performance in our OLTP and Batch jobs.
• Gained the ability to use capacity-on-demand + CPU bursting.
• Increased the efficiency of operations (provisioning + patching) using CLOUD GUIs delivered with the Exadata Cloud at Customer machine.
• Gained some licensing advantages and additional database options automatically.

I like that Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is a stable, well-positioned product in the market today, and it's very scalable.

A room for improvement in Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer is that they need to train more partners to gain more knowledge because currently, they are keeping a lot to themselves. For example, they are still keeping a lot of information on their campus, so information sharing is limited. We'd like for Oracle to open up so we could have more knowledge. We also need more information sharing regarding Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer because it's still a relatively evolving product.