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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I explore how Oracle’s innovative Alloy initiative is empowering companies like AIS in Thailand to transform from cloud customers into full-fledged cloud providers
Highlights
00:26 — One of Oracle’s customers in Thailand is one of the country’s largest mobile network operators. Through Oracle’s program, Alloy, this customer is now becoming a cloud provider to other businesses within Thailand. This was Oracle’s idea — to move from being just a consumer of cloud products to being a provider within their industry or region.
01:46 — AIS has about 45 million mobile network subscribers. Its new company is going to be called AIS Cloud, and it’ll offer Oracle’s entire suite of cloud products and services to businesses throughout Thailand. AIS Cloud is going to operate out of two AIS data centers within Thailand, and some of the customer services will include repatriating their data back into Thailand.
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02:27 — With these localized centers, they’ll cover everything from better security, business continuity, and disaster recovery as well as address sovereignty of data and ideas and provide Thai businesses with a higher level of sophisticated, modern technology to drive new business innovation. The only other hyperscaler approaching this level of an initiative is Google Cloud.
03:56 — There’s a shift coming: it’s about new business model opportunities. This is one of the best and most exciting examples of that, because it gives this customer, AIS, a chance to not only do more in the field it had been in, but to enter an entirely new field: being a cloud provider for Oracle.
04:31 — It gives Oracle a great new footprint in Thailand, not only for the cloud services that AIS Cloud is going to provide, but also for all of Oracle’s products and technologies. There are going to be other companies that see this and say, “Hey, I could do that in my region.” We’re going to see this spread rapidly throughout the world.
