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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I cover the growing multi-cloud collaboration between Oracle and Google Cloud and its impact on the cloud industry.
Highlights
00:13 — Google Cloud and Oracle a couple of months ago signed a partnership to enable customers to tap into each other’s cloud services more easily and at lower cost. AGoogle Cloud executive — Platform Vice President and General Manager Amit Zavery — will be speaking at Oracle CloudWorld with Oracle’s Head of OCI Clay Magouyrk.
01:31 — In the past several days, Oracle’s LinkedIn page has been very active promoting what’s going on in the cloud. Two superstars in their promotions have been Google Cloud’s Zavery and Andi Gutmans. They want to show that, “Dear customers, we will work together for your benefit.”
02:38 — Why should the burden of so much integration, of weaving things together, and of making disparate cloud pieces work, fall to the customers? I have speculated that perhaps one of the announcements coming up this week at Oracle CloudWorld will be a multi-cloud partnership between Oracle and Amazon or AWS. That is pure speculation on my part.
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03:42 — I believe this is a golden opportunity for customers, and it’s a golden opportunity for both Oracle and Google Cloud to show that they are not trying to perpetuate the old models of the past. Rather, they are creating new models for the future.
04:10 — The best, the winning players in the Cloud Wars over the next couple of years, are going to be the ones that not only bring together extraordinary technology but also new go-to-market programs built around what customers want and need. This multi-cloud “frenemies” show at CloudWorld this week between Oracle and Google Cloud is a perfect example of that.
