Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily news and commentary show, hosted by Cloud Wars Founder Bob Evans. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the Cloud.
In this episode, Bob reacts to a recent video from longtime FedEx CIO Rob Carter praising the Oracle-Microsoft cloud partnership.
Highlights
00:01 — The multi-cloud partnership between Oracle and Microsoft will likely force other big cloud providers to advance their own levels of collaboration.
01:11 — FedEx CIO Rob Carter recently released a video praising the multi-cloud for a number of reasons; “access to data in multi-clouds is something [FedEx] has always wanted.”
02:24 — Carter reported using Oracle database and Microsoft Azure for analytics, allowing FedEx to achieve many of its IT and data goals.
02:54 — The strategy with multi-cloud revolves around “getting the right data and technology in the right cloud at the right time.”
03:08 — The multi-cloud enables rapid adaptability.
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