I have always been a gearhead. I am not just talking about my love for short-block V8s, though I think it’s the same thing. It’s a whole ecosystem of gearheads, made specifically for you and I.
Last week, I was a hound in a junkyard, chasing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. There’s just too much to try and understand. Oracle has performed well in the quarter mile race of the software industry.
CloudWorld is not exactly a coming-out party for OCI — that happened already — but it is an extension of progress on multiple fronts. Oracle can now transfer workloads anywhere in the world, just as Netflix does. Consider some of the different ways that OCI can be used to perform computations.
In a recent press release it was stated that “In conjunction with Red Hat OpenShift, OCI will support customer-managed installs using certified configurations for Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus (including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform), Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on OCI Compute Virtual Machines and bare Metal instances.”
Say What?
Red Hat Linux is a great way to customize your computing environment according to your needs and budget.
Oracle Ecosystem: All-Inclusive
You can say this about any serious Oracle competitor. The strategy seems to be to integrate with all the other players in the market so that customers have little reason to switch to another vendor. Some of this ecumenism is undoubtedly a result of the research and development done by the Department of Defense.
Oracle has partnered with Microsoft to create management systems that will not fail in wartime. This is why some of it feels like the internet. Oracle will also be promoting MySQL HeatWave and Oracle Database@Azure at CloudWorld. Multi-Cloud encompasses all this.
Hybrid Cloud can be found in 60 different countries. It allows cloud services to be delivered on-premises through Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, Compute Cloud@Customer.
There’s also the Public Cloud, which operates in 45 cloud regions across 23 countries. This includes things like a EU Sovereign Cloud that helps customers meet EU data residency requirements and data sovereignty.
Dedicated Cloud brings all Oracle Cloud Services to private data centres. This is especially popular with government agencies where extra security is needed to stop bad actors. You know what I mean.
The AI Shift and the changing tech landscape
As I said before, I do not pretend to know everything. Oracle, according to my business analysis, is doing a decent job at neutralizing its competitors and covering the entire software landscape.
This suggests that the database and performance competition is over. It has been commoditized. It doesn’t matter if you are an Oracle customer or a Microsoft Azure user.
Today, the competitive field is apps that are being redesigned to be AI-friendly. CloudWorld focuses on this. This also shows that newcomers may find it too expensive to enter the market. I think AWS was the last major player, and that was over a decade ago.
This is a sign that the industry has matured. In many ways, technology has become so commonplace that we take it for granted. It is incredible how fast the quarter mile has passed.
