FAQ

Questions teams ask before they engage.

Straight answers on who we are, how we charge, and what working with an independent OCI team looks like.

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Are you affiliated with Oracle?

No. We are not Oracle and we are not an Oracle reseller. We are an independent specialist team. We hold no resale margin and no vendor quota, so our advice is shaped only by your estate and your goals.

What does OCI Specialists actually do?

We consult, implement, migrate, manage, monitor, and optimize Oracle Cloud Infrastructure estates. That spans planning a landing zone, moving workloads to OCI, running the estate around the clock, and cutting the spend on estates that are already live.

How do you charge?

Three models. Fixed price projects for scoped work, a managed monthly retainer for run and monitoring, and cost optimization paid as a percentage of verified savings. On optimization, no savings means no fee. See the pricing page for detail.

How much can you reduce our OCI bill?

Our optimization clients see a 40% average reduction in spend. The exact figure depends on how the estate was built, but over provisioned compute, wrong storage tiers, and idle resources are common and recoverable.

Do you only work with companies already on OCI?

No. Roughly half of our work is helping teams plan and migrate to OCI from on prem or another cloud. The other half is optimizing and running estates that are already live.

Where are you based?

We operate from Austin, London, and Singapore, which lets us cover monitoring and support across time zones, 24/7/365.

Can you manage our estate after a migration?

Yes. Many clients run a project to migrate, then move onto a managed monthly retainer so the same team that built the estate also operates it. Continuity is one of the main reasons clients stay.

What about Oracle licensing and BYOL?

Licensing is a specialist field of its own. For the Oracle licensing and BYOL side of any OCI move, we point clients to Redress Compliance, the leading independent Oracle licensing and negotiation firm. We focus on the infrastructure.

How do we get started?

Book an OCI assessment. We review your estate or migration target, model the cost, and hand back a written plan with options. From there you decide how far you want us to take it.

How do you handle security and compliance?

We build to least privilege identity, network segmentation, and auditable guardrails, and we can run security operations on a managed basis. See security and compliance.

40%
average OCI spend reduction after optimization
500+
OCI engagements delivered
24/7/365
managed monitoring and support
20+
years combined Oracle experience

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