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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, find out how Oracle is setting itself apart with new cloud options that cater to both large-scale and small-scale data center needs.
Highlights
00:21 — At CloudWorld this week, I think Ellison is going to rock the cloud with an announcement about Oracle offering cloud capabilities where it can create an entire cloud region based within the data center of every Oracle customer who wants one. This is tied in with Oracle’s strategy, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) going very big and very small, giving customers a range of options.
01:00 — Now, the very big approach is tied to what Ellison has described as this massive need for more data center capacity in the AI revolution, with all these AI tools requiring larger data centers to process, train, and do inferencing. At the same time, Oracle is also going very small with its data centers.
02:11 — So Oracle is going to have a mix of both: very small, very powerful data centers within customer data centers themselves, and then it’ll have these mega-data centers that Ellison says will be among the largest, if not the largest, in the world.
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03:16 — Ellison wants to give more options to customers, giving them the full power of the cloud within their own data center. Ellison says nobody else can do that. And it’s true. I haven’t heard other companies talk about it, although Google Cloud is beginning to do some things that show it is eager to help some customers co-create cloud capabilities and to be cloud providers.
04:12 — A lot of people could say, well, that’s crazy. There’s AWS and Google Cloud and Microsoft saying we’ve got 100 cloud regions, or 70 cloud regions, and Oracle is going to say that everybody could have one that’s tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands. That’s part of the genius of Larry Ellison: He sets his own future.
