In a joint venture between Intel and Oracle, Exa Your Power is a program developed to offer IBM Power customers a free Proof-of-Concept (POC) database migration to Oracle Engineered Systems.

Karen Sigman, VP of the Platform Business Group at Oracle, and Mike Revitt, associate partner and global head of engineered systems for Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), joined John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at Oracle OpenWorld 2015 to discuss the program and its benefits for customers.

Power program

According to Sigman, Oracle has migrated many customers to the Exadata platform from the IBM Power platform through the program, and customers are lining up to be the next to experience the free Proof of Concept.

The company is seeing great results in performance and agility. Sigman said, “The typical process for the POC starts with an interested customer, who then meets with the salesforce to see if the program makes sense for the business.” She went on to explain that Oracle creates a timeline and then performs a sample either on premise or in an Oracle solution center. Additionally, a partner like CSC can also perform the POC. Once the results are in, the customer receives a roadmap to migrate over to Oracle.

Migration motivation

Revitt discussed the timeline for the migrations. He said, “Currently we are on a project we started in September, and we anticipate finishing in December, so it will take about three months.” He continued, “We do all migrations within 12 months, but on average, depending on the customer, it takes three to six months.”

What compels a customer to make the move? Sigman said, “Number one reason is that they are having issues.” Generally, the customer is looking into other alternatives.

The results are in

The program is improving agility and showing customers that they can do things they never imagined. Additionally, with built-in security and compliance, customers have the ability to work on premise or in the cloud with confidence, Sigman said.

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Oracle OpenWorld 2015. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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