DSP at Oracle CloudWorld 2024 – Session Blends Recommendations: Modern Data Platforms

In this blog, we continue our series on 'session blends', i.e., two sessions that would be worth seeing as they complement each other.

How to Migrate and Run VMware in OCI with Oracle Cloud VMware Solution [PRSH3538]

Macy’s Wardrobe Gets a Modern Look on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure [LRN2407]

DC Exit: Efficient Data Center Exit Strategy—Leveraging OCI and OCVS Migration [LRN2209]

Modern Data Platforms will be a cornerstone of CloudWorld this year and can mean many things to many people. These sessions will blend well to give you some ideas of how you may look to refactor your on-premises estate into OCI.

Later this month, DSP and Ascend will be undertaking a joint webinar around migrating into the OCVS, Oracle’s hosted VMware solution. When we look at a migration to VMware in OCI, it raises several questions about refactoring your estate. Do you move everything, or do you tactically migrate some to OCVS while also looking to move to other Cloud native services such as PaaS for database?

These sessions complement each other as the first session, 'How to Migrate and Run VMware in OCI', allows you to understand how OCVS works. This is a bit of a technical deep dive with actionable tips to kickstart your migration. It’s very much the 'How'. The next two sessions give some interesting insights into two slightly different approaches to Why.

The Macy’s Wardrobe session looks at a journey in which a customer moved from VMware and Solaris into OCI but consumed Cloud Native services, i.e. they didn’t decide to go down the OCVS route despite running it. It will be really interesting to hear the reasoning behind that. Was it cost, complexity, simplification, opportunistic consolidation or something else? There are lots of questions here.

However, the DC Exit: Efficient Data Center Exit Strategy, is a completely different take on the situation, looking at how an existing VMware customer moved into OCVS. Why did they choose to move to OVCS and Macy’s didn’t? What were the benefits they saw or sought, and how were they different from McGraw Hill?

I am confident in saying that by the end of these sessions, you would have a pretty informed perspective on Modern Data Platforms in your organisation.

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