Mike Jennings, Secure24, at Oracle Next Generation Engineered Systems Launch with John Furrier and Dave Vellante @theCUBE #datacenter “Oracle is making a big march toward converged computing,” said Mike Jennings, CEO of Secure24. In his interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at Oracle’s Next Generation Engineered Systems Launch Event, he said that “as a partner and a company that hosts a lot of Oracle products, we’re seeing benefits” in terms of performance. “The virtual compute appliance came out last year and they made some very big improvements to the platform. Oracle is continuing to put their brand behind improving the VCA platform and pushing it forward into the future,” Jennings added. “What we see now is a product that’s really targeted at replacing x86 and Linux systems,” Jennings said, explaining that Secure24 “spent a lot of time kind of building our own Vblock environment,” using a combination of Cisco, EMC, VMware, and Red Hat, which amounted to a multi-month process. “We had to build our own orchestration layers,” he explained. “With virtual computer clients we get everything in a box, compute, storage, networking, software defined networking, orchestration; an environment that is tuned to roll Oracle workloads. You want to use the right product for the right workload,” Jennings added. Oracle workloads are best run on Oracle virtualization, as it “allows us to get all the reliability and redundancy of a virtualized environment,” Jennings stated. “CIOs don’t want to be in the database business or in the infrastructure business,” Jennings said, explaining that Secure24 has seen great benefit from the success Amazon has had in public cloud. Asked by theCUBE hosts what CIOs want from their IT organizations, Jennings said what he wanted was a high level of automation, repeatability, and process. “We look for products that are simple,” he stated, going on to note that simplification benefits everything from deployment to monitoring, management to maintenance