Global firms boost cloud migration with Oracle's VMware solution

Global organisations such as Ahold Delhaize, Hitachi Construction Machinery, Lemtrans, and Mazda Motors Logistics Europe are utilising Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to transition from on-premises data centres and migrate their critical business applications to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Oracle has announced the release of a new OCI Compute shape featuring an NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPU and an Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 Processor to enhance the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. Additionally, Oracle plans to introduce another compute shape using the AMD EPYC 9J14 processor. This aims to provide customers with additional compute options and improve performance across various workloads.

"Many organisations that want to move their VMware estates to the cloud are often daunted by the heavy lift and prospect of needing to learn an entirely new set of IT skills," said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle Cloud VMware Solution enables organisations to maintain full control of their VMware Clusters and preserve their tools, skills, and processes, eliminating reskilling requirements. For customers, it is a low-risk approach to modernise in the cloud by maintaining an identical operational model to their on-premises VMware Clusters."

Ahold Delhaize, one of the largest food retailers globally, has leveraged Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to migrate over 400 VMware virtual machines (VMs) supporting its e-commerce, supply chain, and retail processes. The migration, which aimed to enhance performance and reduce costs, was managed and implemented by the AH Tech Team and Oracle partner DXC Technology. "It allowed us to extend our data centre VMware environment into the cloud and leverage our existing processes and expertise, while delivering on our data centre exit strategy," said Gerhard van der Bijl, chief technical officer, Ahold Delhaize Europe and Indonesia.

Hitachi Construction Machinery, which operates over 400,000 units of construction equipment worldwide, is migrating approximately 500 virtual servers and 100 databases to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and Oracle Exadata Database Service on OCI. This migration has already resulted in a 20 percent reduction in infrastructure operating costs and significant improvements in transaction processing and batch processing performance. "OCI is the only public cloud that can securely migrate mission-critical databases running on Oracle Exadata and VMware virtualization environments since we can migrate quickly without configuration changes and reduce costs," said Noriko Momoki, senior officer and president, DX Promotion Group, Hitachi Construction Machinery.

Lemtrans, a leading private operator of railway vehicles in Ukraine, transitioned its critical processes and databases to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to improve resiliency. "The tools we use in OCI and our on-premises VMware environment are identical, which greatly simplified the migration of our data and VMs and provided more confidence in our business continuity," said Ivan Radchenko, head of IT department, Lemtrans.

Mazda Motors Logistics Europe N.V. (MLE) consolidated its applications by migrating 500 VMware VMs and integrating an Oracle Exadata system into 80 Oracle Databases running on Exadata Database Service in OCI. This allowed MLE to close its two data centres in Frankfurt while maintaining application customization and database compatibility. "Migrating our racks of Exadata and VMs to OCI let us keep our data and workloads in one place. This had helped us increase our agility and productivity while reducing operational costs," said Leander Dierckx, cloud domain lead, Mazda Motors Logistics Europe N.V.

The new Oracle Cloud VMware Solution compute shape integrates an Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 Processor and an NVIDIA Tensor Core A10 GPU for graphic-intensive, AI inferencing, and VDI workloads. Oracle also plans to introduce a new compute shape with the AMD EPYC 9J14 processor, offering up to 50 percent more cores per cluster.