Oracle Makes Cloud Storage More Flexible

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Business people as well as techies really, REALLY care about storage. I guess that’s because business people don’t want to lose data and techies hate spending precious time recovering (or failing to recover) data that business people lose because their storage failed them.

I discovered this what-should-have-been-obvious fact when, after years of covering business software, I wrote one freelance piece on iSCSI storage. It generated a volume of email and phone responses that dwarfed anything I’d experienced up till that point.

Lesson learned. Storage is a huge deal, which is why it is so important that Oracle has dramatically improved on the fundamentals of cloud storage as outlined in TechCrunch by Cameron Bahar, Oracle’s SVP of storage and data management.

For example, he notes that while Gen 1 cloud providers field what can be a bewildering array of volume types, tiers and price models, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's (OCI's) Gen2 Block Volume service offers a single, flexible volume type with a simple slider to control its performance. That means customers can configure and adjust block?volume performance?on demand for existing or new volumes without affecting their applications. That is a big step forward in flexibility.

That’s just one example of how OCI is making cloud more agile and flexible for customers. For more, take a look at Bahar’s TechCrunch piece as well as this Geekwire article on OCI’s flexible VMs.

As a result, using this service means techies can relax a bit because they don’t have to think about storage quite as much as they used to – and it doesn’t have to be such a thorn in their sides when they do.

?And it also shows that while cloud computing has always promised flexibility in deployment, some clouds truly are more flexible than others.

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