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"Not all clouds are created equal" in the AI era: how is OCI different?

Coen or Sander Season 2 Episode 34

Richard Smith, EVP and GM EMEA Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle, sits down with us during Oracle AI World to discuss the company's strategic move to go all-in on AI. Not only the name of its flagship event has changed from Cloud World to AI World, it is much more fundamental.

Our conversation covers, among other things, Oracle's AI data platform. One of the goals of this platform is to allow customers to use their own data for AI workloads without moving it. With data data sovereignty and security front and center nowadays, this is an important feature of Oracle's approach.

The conversation meanders from high-level strategic to rather fine-grained and specific. On the one hand we talk about the importance of database vectorization in the latest version of the Oracle database and about how Oracle handles scale-across workloads. On the other, we ask Smith questions about Oracle's massive infrastructure investments, including the Abilene data center project and Stargate initiatives, but also European sovereignty concerns, DORA compliance. Oracle being a key player in the 'AI bubble' discussion that is going on at the moment, we don't shy away from that discussion either.