A robust private cloud is a great way for companies to get all the innovations of cloud technology while satisfying security and compliance requirements. Praveen Asthana, senior VP of converged infrastructure project management at Oracle, and Mohamad Afshar, VP of product management at Oracle, talked with John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to discuss how Oracle is making this possible.

According to Afshar, what Oracle has done to “package up what we have in the Oracle cloud … the Infrastructure as a Service, which is compute and storage, and then also the PaaS services … for consumption on premise” is a pretty revolutionary thing.

“Whether you’re running Java applications, whether you’re running python applications …. all of the PaaS capabilities that we’ve been talking about [are] available and packaged,” he said. “So you get access to cloud innovation directly from Oracle cloud into your database.”

Creating the private cloud experience

Praveen explained the company’s approach to creating the private cloud experience. “There’s a saying, right – what is cloud? It’s running it on someone else’s servers. I mean, it’s not some magical thing. It’s a server. Someone has a server. All we’re saying is, hey, why should it matter where that server sits, as long as you have a cloud-like experience?”

Afshar emphasized the continuity between the two. “One of the important things about what we’re doing … is to have the same operational model between the public cloud and the on-premises part of cloud,” he said. “And that’s very important, because what I’ve found in talking to customers is the operational model and where things break. If I have to do it a certain way on-premises, and then I’ve got to change and learn something new to do it in the public cloud, it’s very difficult.”

He added, “So we maintain the same operational model on premises, as well as in the public cloud. And that’s the key.”

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Oracle OpenWorld 2015.

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