Re: Oracle EBS in the cloud

Tim is, of course, right on the money.

But, this reminded me of the "Pizze as a Service' explanatory model. (Some of you may have seen this before.)

I thought it was simultaneously amusing and accurate... :-) Here it is:
https://www.episerver.com/learn/resources/blog/fred-bals/pizza-as-a-service/

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 4:04 PM Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> I'm not sure if you are using the terms appropriately in your original
> question.
>
> By way of background, cloud services generally consist of IaaS, PaaS, or
> SaaS...
>
>
> - IaaS
> - *Infrastructure* as a Service
> - hosted servers in the cloud accessible just like any server
> on-premise, usually configured and managed by on-premise personnel
> - good example: Amazon EC2
> - PaaS
> - *Platform* as a Service
> - managed tools hosted in the cloud and accessed through a portal
> - good example: Amazon RDS
> - SaaS
> - *Software* as a Service
> - managed applications hosted in the cloud and accessed through a
> portal
> - good example: Salesforce
>
>
> Naturally, behind the scenes PaaS is generally comprised of IaaS, and
> behind the scenes SaaS is generally comprised of PaaS and IaaS except the
> SaaS vendor is directly accessing and managing them. One way or another,
> you "need" IaaS.
>
> What is really important is how we define the verb-with-many-meanings in
> your original question: "moved"...
>
>
> - If "moved" means you rehosted your on-premise EBS to cloud-based
> servers, managed by your on-premise staff, then you'd be using IaaS only
> - In this scenario, the move works very much as you've probably
> done it so many times in the past, except this time you didn't have to set
> up new servers and storage in your data center first
> - If "moved" means that you migrated your on-premise EBS into a
> cloud-hosted EBS environment, configuring setup through their portals,
> uploading legacy data through their portals, then you'd be using SaaS
> directly, while somewhere under that SaaS service are possibly PaaS and
> definitely IaaS
> - In this scenario, it would be like you're going to use EBS that
> is already installed and running somewhere else managed by someone else,
> and you just have to configure/setup and get your old data transferred into
> it
>
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Tim
>
>
>
> On 9/25/18 13:23, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote:
>
> Back in 2017, I heard that if you moved EBS to the cloud that you needed
> IAAS. Is this still true?
>
> Jeffrey Beckstrom
> Lead Database Administrator
> Information Technology Department
> Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
> 1240 W. 6th Street
> Cleveland, Ohio 44113
>
>
>

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