The Oracle Cloud Machine brings public cloud services behind the firewall for on-prem security. Nirav Mehta, VP of product management at Oracle, joined John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at Oracle CloudWorld 2016 in Washington, D.C. to discuss the magic behind what the Wall Street Journal is calling “Cloud computing inside-out.”

As in the cloud, so be it on-prem

Congratulating Mehta on the positive press coverage, Furrier asked about the creation process of the Oracle Cloud Machine and Oracle Cloud at Customer. “Behind the simplicity and elegance is a lot of sophistication,” said Mehta, who says the challenge was to bring services from the cloud exactly as if they exist behind the firewall. “We have succeeded if it’s invisible,” he told theCUBE.

The discussion touched on Enterprise Resource Planning, (ERP), and latency and high-performance constraint issues, to orchestration. Oracle believes that orchestration is there to make you faster and more functional, said Mehta, who sees vendors using orchestration as a band-aid to plug the discrepancy between on-prem and cloud.

Mission-critical security

The topic changed with Mehta’s disclosure that he has a background in security, with Vellante asking: “How do you accommodate need for customization and need to scale?” Mehta answered that Oracle’s experience with mission-critical workloads makes them “very aware of what an IT security team really needs.”

The end of DMZ?

Furrier asked if an ‘inside-out’ cloud machine means the end of DMZ (demilitarized zone) computing, and Mehta said, “DMZ was gone five years ago.” He explained that security perimeters are no longer specific delineated points within the networks. “The perimeter is wherever the data is,” he said.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Oracle CloudWorld 2016. And make sure to weigh in during theCUBE’s live coverage at the event by joining in on CrowdChat.

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