Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle, talks with Bob Evans at Oracle CloudWorld about the company’s commitment to helping businesses seamlessly integrate across multiple cloud environments while maintaining top-notch security and reliability. Batta also shares insights on Oracle’s future plans for cloud innovation and the growing importance of multi-cloud in digital transformation.
The Big Themes:
- Oracle’s multi-cloud strategy: Karan emphasized how Oracle has been working for nearly a decade to offer customers flexibility in using Oracle’s technology across different cloud providers. It has partnerships with Microsoft, Google, and now AWS, allowing customers to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with the same performance and reliability as they would on Oracle’s platform.
- Technology and business challenges: Karan acknowledged the technical complexity of integrating OCI into other cloud providers’ systems, but stressed that the bigger challenge was building the relationships necessary to make these partnerships work. The goal has been to break down competitive barriers and prioritize customer needs, which he sees as a transformative approach in the tech industry.
- Scaling infrastructure: Oracle is simultaneously building large-scale data centers for the growing AI and cloud needs, while also working on smaller, more modular systems that can be deployed quickly. This allows them to scale up or down based on customer demand, addressing a broad spectrum of use cases.
The Big Quote: “Our goal is to allow customers to get access to Oracle technology in an untethered way with the same level of security, regulatory compliance, and performance… Everything, everywhere. All services are secure, all services are performant. You pick.”
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