Oracle’s leadership was in celebratory mood opening its annual CloudWorld jamboree, and with its announcement of a new cloud partnership with AWS, multicloud futures were high on everyone’s agenda. Oracle top brass led out their annual CloudWorld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on 10 September with a focus on the multicloud future, but also a customer-centric love-in, as CEO Safra Catz took to the stage to laud the partnerships the firm has built over its near-50 year lifespan to date. By Alex Scroxton.
“Multicloud interconnect … connecting the Oracle Cloud to AWS would make that possible,” he continued. “We can interconnect clouds, and in some cases we have. But [that] is not optimal, it’s not the ideal solution. A much better approach would be if we embedded an Oracle Cloud datacentre right inside AWS.”
Larry Ellison
Later in the day, Larry Ellison, who turned 80 earlier this year, expanded on the theme of turning longstanding rivals into best multicloud buddies. He lamented that the move to cloud at first caused the industry to lose sight of the idea that systems could be interoperable, but this, he continued, is now rightly changing – as Oracle’s newly minted partnership with AWS shows, he claimed. The growth of true multicloud propositions heralds a step change in enterprise computing, bringing convenience and choice for Oracle customers with connections into the major hyperscalers, and others as well. Good read!
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