OCI: Making Bespoke Cloud Services Simple
When you think of Oracle you don’t often think of scrappy disruptor. However, if you’ve been reading Oracle’s recent headlines you’ll uncover a company in transformation, shedding its skin as a traditionally minded enterprise software supplier to a cloud first services mindset. Along the way, OCI has gained major momentum with enterprise customers as the company leans in on a core differentiator – intimate understanding of enterprise customers.
I’ve been intrigued to see this story of mature player as disruptor play out, and I was excited with the chance to talk to Bev Crair, Senior VP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute, about how her team has architected its cloud to deliver differentiated value to its customers. Bev has a history of leadership across the industry most recently at Lenovo and Intel and has a reputation for driving high performance teams to deliver breakthroughs under her watch. What she described in our talk was a maniacal focus on delivering what, and only what, the customer requires. This seems simple but is awfully difficult to do within the world of automated re-provisioning of infrastructure to stand up customer services. More on the complexity of automation can be found in my talk with Abby Kearns. However, Oracle is doing just that and making it simple for customers to choose their services as part of a multi-cloud strategy.
Does this matter? Earlier I wrote about Couture Silicon for the Cloud, and Ampere’s delivery of processors devoid of instructional overhead of x86 alternatives. More plainly, Ampere is designing chips solely for the cloud so don’t need to think about capabilities that would be used in other designs like laptops or edge applications. This creates efficiency of design that is then passed on to the customer in terms of value. The chips fit like a glove for cloud workloads…or like a custom-tailored shirt if you extend the metaphor. Oracle’s promise to customers is similar. They’re delivering exactly the processor, memory and I/O configuration desired vs. finding closest proximity recipes found with the rest of the major cloud providers. And while many off the rack alternatives will do a great job delivering the performance required for the workload, there’s likely cost overhead that could otherwise be avoided.
Check out the interview to learn more about OCI innovation including their approach to multi-cloud and vendor partnerships delivering a rich selection of service offerings. And watch this space for more information about cloud service innovation. As always, thanks for engaging - Allyson
When you think of Oracle you don’t often think of scrappy disruptor. However, if you’ve been reading Oracle’s recent headlines you’ll uncover a company in transformation, shedding its skin as a traditionally minded enterprise software supplier to a cloud first services mindset. Along the way, OCI has gained major momentum with enterprise customers as the company leans in on a core differentiator – intimate understanding of enterprise customers.
I’ve been intrigued to see this story of mature player as disruptor play out, and I was excited with the chance to talk to Bev Crair, Senior VP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute, about how her team has architected its cloud to deliver differentiated value to its customers. Bev has a history of leadership across the industry most recently at Lenovo and Intel and has a reputation for driving high performance teams to deliver breakthroughs under her watch. What she described in our talk was a maniacal focus on delivering what, and only what, the customer requires. This seems simple but is awfully difficult to do within the world of automated re-provisioning of infrastructure to stand up customer services. More on the complexity of automation can be found in my talk with Abby Kearns. However, Oracle is doing just that and making it simple for customers to choose their services as part of a multi-cloud strategy.
Does this matter? Earlier I wrote about Couture Silicon for the Cloud, and Ampere’s delivery of processors devoid of instructional overhead of x86 alternatives. More plainly, Ampere is designing chips solely for the cloud so don’t need to think about capabilities that would be used in other designs like laptops or edge applications. This creates efficiency of design that is then passed on to the customer in terms of value. The chips fit like a glove for cloud workloads…or like a custom-tailored shirt if you extend the metaphor. Oracle’s promise to customers is similar. They’re delivering exactly the processor, memory and I/O configuration desired vs. finding closest proximity recipes found with the rest of the major cloud providers. And while many off the rack alternatives will do a great job delivering the performance required for the workload, there’s likely cost overhead that could otherwise be avoided.
Check out the interview to learn more about OCI innovation including their approach to multi-cloud and vendor partnerships delivering a rich selection of service offerings. And watch this space for more information about cloud service innovation. As always, thanks for engaging - Allyson
