Easing into the Cloud for Oracle WebCenter Investments
For customers who have invested in traditional on-premise deployments of IT applications to support their business objectives, the growing trend and push to the cloud can often appear to be a daunting challenge. But the good news is that it is not an “all or nothing� proposition when you consider taking a hybrid approach as you step towards cloud adoption. A 71% of customers below are taking a hybrid cloud approach which includes the use of an conventional on-premise IT application in conjunction with some form of cloud technology.
Lift and Shift is a term that is being used quite a bit these days in talking about the push to the cloud by various cloud vendors. While exact definitions vary, we at Oracle use this term to mean copying (or cloning) an on-premises implementation of Oracle WebCenter Content, Imaging, Portal or Sites environment into Oracle’s public cloud offerings. The targets for these environments could be either Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Compute cloud or Oracle’s Java Cloud Service (JCS)
All of the current 12c releases of the WebCenter product family (Content, Imaging, Capture, Portal & Sites) are certified to run in these Oracle cloud environments. Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Compute cloud environment is a cloud based virtualization service for deploying your applications. As an administrator, you would do all the same things that you would have done to install the Oracle WebCenter Stack into your own hardware but instead you do it remotely using a secure connection to your Oracle cloud environment.
Oracle’s Java Cloud Service (JCS) cloud environments are similar to IaaS/Compute cloud with one big difference: JCS comes with a preprovisioned Oracle WebLogic Application Server. You still get a virtualized operating system environment with an number of pre-allocated CPU cores but instead of starting the application installation process at the operating system level – you start with an already running WLS server and only need to install the middleware applications.
The additional benefits of the JCS environment are that the WLS application server functions like monitoring, backup, update & scale out are integrated into the JCS cloud administration console functions. When you lift and shift your WebCenter onpremise applications to the cloud – these cloud instances can be used for testing, development, or production environments. For production environments, the high availability standard reference architectures that the WebCenter products document & support for clustering and load balancing are supported as well.
From a licensing perspective, it’s a case of Bring Your Own License (BYOL), meaning you can re-allocate your existing onpremise perpetual processor licenses that you already own and re-deploy them on Oracle’s cloud infrastructure instead of your own hardware. What you pay for is a subscription cost for the virtual cloud CPU’s & storage that you use in the Oracle cloud. You can pay as you go (metered subscription) for the resources you use or you can prepay (non-metered) for a fixed set of cloud resources.
In summary, with the availability of “lift-n-shift” support in Oracle’s compute cloud environments you’ve now got the best of both worlds – the flexibility of the Oracle cloud for scaling and off-loading your infrastructure costs while continuing to be able to use your existing WebCenter product family investments and the applications you’ve built around them.
To get started, connect with us via your Oracle WebCenter account representative or your Oracle point of contact. We will drive strategy sessions to work on a roadmap that works best for your short- and long-term needs. And, get the best of both worlds - leveraging your existing investments and benefits of the Cloud. We know you have questions so please do reach out to us via the comments section or through your point of contact. For more information on our Content and Experience cloud portfolio.
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