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Cumulus Maximus

Millions of motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians rely on smart phone-enabled navigation apps
to simplify travel. In most cases, a single app gets them where they want to go.
By comparison, the journey to federal IT modernization has been like an expedition equipped with a dizzying array of platforms, applications, mobile devices, data solutions and clouds of every type – amazing services and technical gadgetry. Yet, in many, if not
most cases, those products aren’t well-integrated; they don’t work well together. Consequently, the road to modernization has been bumpy, fragmented and poorly marked.
Oracle, with 40 years experience supporting the public sector, is vying to be a unifying force in federal IT modernization.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a
Generation 2 enterprise cloud that integrates platform-, infrastructure-, database- and software-as-a-
service on a single platform. This powerful solution delivers compute power, networking performance and a comprehensive portfolio of infrastructure and platform cloud services. Built to meet the needs of mission-critical applications, Oracle Cloud essentially “defrags” the splintered federal IT services sector. By supporting existing workloads while delivering modern cloud development tools, enterprises can bring forward proven IT solutions.
Oracle envisions its multi-cloud service as the next leg on a journey it started in the late 1970s: solving business challenges that allow organizations in the public and private sector to more easily achieve critical missions.
“We like to think of the Oracle Cloud environment as an extension
of the Oracle ecosystem that
solves business challenges for our customers,” says Tony Cossa, former CTO for USDA, now director of product management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Easy, simple, fast and secure
In addition to advancing interoperability on the road to IT modernization, OCI was designed to have broad attributes that would appeal to federal agencies including scalability, flexibility, efficiency and ease of use.
At a time when concerns over privacy and data integrity continue to grow, OCI is “delivering the next generation of cybersecurity,” says Ken Ritchhart, program lead, federal business development, Oracle.
OCI has recently completed a raft of security certifications (including FedRAMP, DoD IL2 and IL5 PATO)
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