My Takeaways from CloudWorld '22 and picks for best expo swag!

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is killing it!

 OCI had the most floorspace on the expo and it was bustling.  There is a lot of interest on Oracle’s public cloud.  At the keynote, they had the CEO of Nvidia and announced continued partnership and the ability to provision 20k GPU super-clusters for machine learning applications; these clusters are the biggest you can provision in a public cloud.

I found the Cloud @ Customer and private availability domain to be very interesting… Oracle will deploy and manage several racks of equipment within your data-center – providing an in-house access to Oracle’s public cloud and SaaS capabilities - but under Oracle’s management. If you have specific regulatory or control needs, this sounds like a great compromise to get Oracle’s latest capabilities but local & private to your organization.

During the OCI keynote, I thought the ability to try to make it easy to manage across multiple public clouds looked great, especially for smaller shops. AWS resources and OCI resources can be managed from a single pane of glass, and it looked like it was possible from either side.  And lastly on the OCI front, Oracle realizes not everyone will move to OCI, and is building ready-to-go images of many Oracle products in Azure and AWS – and making sure these instances will integrate with native logging, provisioning, and management tools in competing public clouds.

On The Business Applications Side

 My take –Oracle has won the battle for the back-office with a solid SaaS platform. Now they are working on expanding and working on customer stickiness. 

One announcement is blending JP Morgan tie-in directly into the ERP platform. JP Morgan is one of the largest global banking institutions in the world, so there is likely a ton of opportunity to drive business and lock customers in for the long haul on behalf of both companies.   Just add your JP Morgan credentials and you’ll have instant payment card integration for employees with more use-cases on the way.  Expect to see the JP Morgan logo within Cloud ERP at the various tie-in points shortly.

With the Cerner acquisition, I think we can expect similar tie-ins in the healthcare provider space, with simple built-in integration between the back-off and healthcare operational systems moving forward. If you are healthcare system, it’ll make a for a compelling integration and pricing story.

Ace Program Reboot

 Very excited to meet my fellow Ace’s at the Oracle ACE Dinner and get to visit the Ace Lounge on the show floor. This is a great program if you live & breathe Oracle and you should consider applying to become an Ace!

Best Swag Award

 “Best swag award” goes to IBM with their #2 pencil that has Cilantro seeds where the eraser should go.  I grabbed a few of these for my daughter! How cool is this?! I was a bit worried taking a extremely sharp pencil through security.

Best Swag That Hits Close to Home

“Best swag that hits close to home” goes to Oracle, over on the dev side, with their “Agile Planning Cards.” LOVE IT!