Companies are racing to connect core data systems to modern artificial intelligence tools with as little friction as possible, making a strong multicloud integration strategy critical.
Enterprises want consistent, predictable performance, irrespective of whether their workloads run on-premises or in the cloud. As artificial intelligence leads to surging workloads, Oracle Corp. is seeing strong enthusiasm around multicloud collaboration and AI database efforts, according to Nathan Thomas (pictured), vice president of product management at Oracle.
“To give you an idea, there’s two live regions today. We’ve announced that there’ll be 20 more coming soon. We’re out with 19c and then, of course, just updated to 26ai,” Thomas said. “Customers are just consistently saying that they’re excited about taking that mission-critical data set they’ve had in the Oracle databases and starting to leverage it for AI data pipelines and being able to use it with all of the [applications].”
Thomas spoke with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante at AWS re:Invent, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, News Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the rapid rise of multicloud architectures and the push to connect core enterprise data systems directly into modern AI workloads.
Multicloud integration strategy becomes the focal point
Offerings from Amazon Web Services Inc. fit naturally into Oracle’s broader multicloud integration strategy because many customers rely on both platforms. Bringing those capabilities together meets customers where they are at, according to Thomas.
“[It’s the] same mentality of saying, yeah, you can get Exadata, you can get Autonomous Database, you get all of our [Autonomous Recovery Services] systems for recovery, you get all of the same migration capabilities [and] zero downtime migration capabilities,” he explained. “And now things like Autonomous AI Lakehouse, it’s all the same set of tech. You can run it in [Oracle Cloud Infrastructure], you can run it in all of the cloud vendors.”
Together, those capabilities are meant to make Oracle’s database services feel the same no matter where they run. That uniform experience is a cornerstone of Oracle’s multicloud strategy, Thomas noted.
“It’s something where the customers really get the advantage of what they’re used to with all of the Oracle product sets, but they get it inside of the cloud where all of their applications are,” he said. “[It] makes perfect sense.”
Here’s the complete video interview, part of News’s and theCUBE’s coverage of AWS re:Invent:
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