White Paper

The OCI Migration Playbook

A practical, vendor neutral guide to moving Oracle and enterprise workloads to OCI without surprises on cost, timeline, or risk.

Network of connected nodes representing a migration to OCI
Summary

What this paper covers.

Most OCI migrations do not fail on technology. They fail on the decisions made before a single workload moves, the region, the shapes, the licensing position, and the credits commitment. This playbook lays out the sequence we use on real engagements, from the first inventory to the optimisation pass that follows go live.

It is written to be useful whether you run the move yourself or bring in a specialist. The aim is to leave you with a clear method, a set of decisions to make in the right order, and a realistic view of where time and money actually go.

Inside

What is inside.

  • The decisions that lock in cost before any workload moves, and how to get them right.
  • A repeatable migration sequence from inventory through tested cutover to optimisation.
  • How to size OCI shapes against measured demand rather than guesswork.
  • Where lift and shift, move and improve, and re architecture each make sense.
  • A risk and rollback model that keeps a cutover safe.
  • The questions to settle on licensing and BYOL before you commit to a credits number.
Audience

Who it is for.

  • IT leaders weighing a move to OCI and trying to scope the effort honestly.
  • Architects who own the landing zone and cutover design.
  • Finance and procurement teams sizing a Universal Credits commitment.
  • Teams already mid migration who want to sanity check their approach.

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Contents

Table of contents.

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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