Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, talks with Bob Evans about Oracle’s evolving multi-cloud strategy and the growing demand for interoperability between cloud providers. The discussion also covers Oracle’s efforts to enhance security, performance, and cost efficiency in its multi-cloud offerings.
Oracle’s Expanding Multi-Cloud Strategy
The Big Themes:
- Oracle’s unique cloud architecture: Oracle’s differentiated cloud architecture offers customers flexibility across different environments, whether public, private, or government. This hybrid architecture ensures that customers can deploy the same services whether they need an on-premises solution, a fully isolated cloud region, or a multi-cloud setup. Oracle’s approach also addresses the specific needs of regulated industries, like finance or healthcare.
- Global expansion and investments: Oracle is heavily investing in expanding its cloud infrastructure across the globe, including in emerging markets like Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, and Latin America. These investments aim to meet growing local demands for cloud services while enhancing Oracle’s global footprint. By establishing more localized data centers, Oracle can reduce latency for customers, ensure data sovereignty, and cater to regional regulatory requirements.
- Multi-cloud partnerships: Oracle’s partnerships with major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google Cloud, and AWS represent a shift in the cloud industry, as it was previously unheard of for these companies to collaborate. Oracle recognized early on that customers were using multi-cloud strategies, so it adapted by integrating with these other platforms. Its willingness to collaborate with competitors reflects its commitment to answering customers’ needs.
The Big Quote: “It is very clear that customers drive our strategy . . . Oracle is kicking this multi-cloud era forward, an open era, if you will.”
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