Before you make a plan to migrate to the cloud, there are a few questions you should ask yourself:

• Do your workloads fluctuate throughout the year? If your campus has a time of year where you approach your data center’s capacity limits, the public cloud could be a solution to allow you to scale elastically to fit your data processing needs.
• Are you considering replacing or adding new hardware to your data center? If you are reaching the end of your hardware’s usable life, you may want to consider public cloud. The cost savings of migrating to the cloud could be exponential compared to installing new on-premises hardware.
• Are there privacy laws and government regulations that require data to reside within a specific governmental or company jurisdiction? If so, you may want to consider a private cloud like Cloud at Customer which gives you the benefits of the public cloud all within your data center and behind your firewall.
• Would you benefit from a disaster recovery environment in a different region? On-premises disaster recovery (DR) environments are extremely costly, if not impossible to achieve. By migrating to the cloud, you will have the option of setting up a DR environment for a fraction of what your current on-premises environment would cost.
• Are you overpaying your IT team to maintain and manage existing hardware when they could be innovating? By moving to the cloud, you no longer need to worry about maintaining your hardware. Your cloud provider will keep all of your systems patched and up to date. As an added bonus, you can work with an experienced Cloud Certified Managed Services Provider to manage your systems, tame your infrastructure support costs and increase your systems’ uptime.

1. Exceptional Performance –  Oracle’s cloud infrastructure offers powerful CPU options, massive memory capabilities, and dense storage capacity, meaning OCI will likely be a great improvement over any campus’ existing on-premises systems while still coming in under existing IT budgets.
2. State of the Art Security – We understand that higher education is a top target for data attacks and that is why OCI offers core-to-edge security including superior customer isolation, and data protection.
3. Efficient Scalability – When your campus is at its busiest, open registration, you shouldn’t be worrying if you have enough capacity. With OCI, you can turn up the compute power when you need and turn it back down so you pay for only what you use.
4. Disaster Recovery Options – A disaster recovery environment is usually a pipe dream for those running on-premises. When you take your data to the cloud, you can easily add  DR with the same specs as your primary environment in a different region all without breaking the bank.
5. Free Up IT Teams with Managed Services – Cloud Managed Services Providers offer cost-efficient yet high-quality alternative to hiring and managing expensive full time staff resources. You’ll no longer need to manage mission-critical technologies on your own, which can free up existing IT staff to innovate and develop new solutions for your students to have the best experience while on campus.
6. Lower Your Costs Compared to On-Premises Deployments – Hardware is expensive to buy, configure and maintain. OCI offers predictable savings through simple, competitive and flexible pricing that you pay for month to month as an operating expense instead of as a capital expense up front.