Cloud Strategies for the CIO

Generative AI has sparked the imaginations of business leaders. CIOs have the opportunity to champion AI adoption and reshape their organizations for the future. AI-driven automation and a complete cloud to build, automate, and scale IT can help CIOs address today’s business challenges to delight customers, partners, and employees.

Here’s how AI helps you pull ahead of the competition, satisfy customers, and empower employees.

Explore solutions to your CIO challenges

Fulfill your AI vision in a flexible cloud designed to run any application, faster and more securely. Deliver powerful, adaptable tools that capitalize on data and AI to support every customer and every employee.

Free up time and resources for critical data management, security, governance, and application modernization projects with AI-driven automation. Add new AI solutions to deliver quick ROI wins. Show what’s possible now while designing a cohesive AI vision for the future.

Achieve a cohesive architecture and a flexible distributed cloud strategy
Accelerate AI adoption leveraging familiar open source and industry-standard tools
Monetize data with a unified platform
Enhance security and reduce risk
Address sustainability goals and help fulfill compliance regulations

Customer success in action

  • Vodafone uses Oracle Cloud to help fast-track its telecom reinvention

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Oracle Cloud@Customer
    Oracle Autonomous Database

  • Deutsche Bank aims to run 10,000 databases with 50% less energy

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Oracle Database
    Oracle Cloud@Customer

  • Wendy’s serves quality customer and employee experiences with Oracle Cloud

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Oracle Cloud HCM
    Oracle Cloud ERP
    Oracle Cloud EPM

Build IT that’s ready for anything

Oracle’s integrated suite of AI services and applications gives CIOs the power to bring innovations to market faster and help make their organizations more responsive.

Artificial intelligence

Build new cloud applications on a best-in-class AI infrastructure and with state-of-the-art generative AI innovations.

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A modern data platform

Simplify the end-to-end data lifecycle and deliver insights faster with a single platform that helps you collect, curate, and manage all your transactional, warehouse, analytics, and AI/ML assets.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Get all the services you need—from containers and VMware to AI—to migrate, modernize, build, and scale your IT. Automate all your workloads, including both existing and new applications and data platforms.

A distributed cloud strategy

Choose from a common set of more than 100 cloud services in each cloud region around the world, across clouds, or in your data center to meet regulatory, performance, and other needs.

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Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications

Oracle’s complete suite of SaaS applications delivers consistent processes and a single source of data for business functions across the organization. Improve customer engagement, increase business agility, and react to change faster than ever.

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Find Oracle solutions for your industry.

Get started with OCI

Try 20+ Always Free cloud services, with a 30-day trial for even more

Oracle offers a Free Tier with no time limits on more than 20 services such as Autonomous Database, Arm Compute, and Storage, as well as US$300 in free credits to try additional cloud services. Get the details and sign up for your free account today.

  • What’s included with Oracle Cloud Free Tier?

    • 2 Autonomous Databases, 20 GB each
    • AMD and Arm Compute VMs
    • 200 GB total block storage
    • 10 GB object storage
    • 10 TB outbound data transfer per month
    • 10+ more Always Free services
    • US$300 in free credits for 30 days for even more

Learn with step-by-step guidance

Experience a wide range of OCI services through tutorials and hands-on labs. Whether you're a developer, admin, or analyst, we can help you see how OCI works. Many labs run on the Oracle Cloud Free Tier or an Oracle-provided free lab environment.

  • Get started with OCI core services

    The labs in this workshop cover an introduction to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) core services including virtual cloud networks (VCN) and compute and storage services.

    Start OCI core services lab now
  • Autonomous Database quick start

    In this workshop, you’ll go through the steps to get started using Oracle Autonomous Database.

    Start Autonomous Database quick start lab now
  • Build an app from a spreadsheet

    This lab walks you through uploading a spreadsheet into an Oracle Database table, and then creating an application based on this new table.

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  • Deploy an HA application on OCI

    In this lab you’ll deploy web servers on two compute instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), configured in High Availability mode by using a Load Balancer.

    Start HA application lab now

Explore over 150 best practice designs

See how our architects and other customers deploy a wide range of workloads, from enterprise apps to HPC, from microservices to data lakes. Understand the best practices, hear from other customer architects in our Built & Deployed series, and even deploy many workloads with our "click to deploy" capability or do it yourself from our GitHub repo.

Popular architectures

  • Apache Tomcat with MySQL Database Service
  • Oracle Weblogic on Kubernetes with Jenkins
  • Machine-learning (ML) and AI environments
  • Tomcat on Arm with Oracle Autonomous Database
  • Log analysis with ELK Stack
  • HPC with OpenFOAM

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Interested in learning more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? Let one of our experts help.

  • They can answer questions like:

    • What workloads run best on OCI?
    • How do I get the most out of my overall Oracle investments?
    • How does OCI compare to other cloud computing providers?
    • How can OCI support your IaaS and PaaS goals?