Oracle CloudWorld Delivers New Thinking, New Releases, and 1,200+ Content Sessions

Oracle CloudWorld had a favorite something for everyone this year. For some, it was Larry Ellison’s insights on the future of healthcare technology or Safra Catz’s inspirational keynote on acting boldly. For others, it was the Oracle TV interview with Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen or the over 1,200 content sessions. Read on for more event highlights.
 

Safra Catz Discusses Impactful Business Results

“Boldness does win the game—being different and not following what everybody else is doing.”

Oracle CEO Safra Catz’s keynote presentation at Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas featured live conversations with leaders of global brands, who shared how they’re solving the most complex problems with Oracle.

Executives from Deutsche Bank, NVIDIA, Johnson Controls, toy maker Melissa & Doug, baker Grupo Bimbo, and Formula 1 team Oracle Red Bull Racing joined Catz onstage to discuss the technology investments they’re making to anticipate and adapt to changing market conditions and customer expectations.

Deutsche Bank is moving thousands of Oracle databases that underpin its key trading, risk management, and capital planning software to versions running on high-performance Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer appliances managed by Oracle in the bank’s data centers. That migration will help the bank cut hundreds of millions in costs over several years while staying compliant with data protection rules.

Supporting Growth

Melissa & Doug, a maker of wooden play sets and other children’s toys, turned to Oracle Cloud ERP applications a year and a half ago as it grew from a small company using software developed in-house to selling 70 million toys a year.

Mexican bakery conglomerate Grupo Bimbo, the maker of Entenmann’s cakes and Thomas’ English muffins, turned to Oracle Cloud ERP for a different reason: to consolidate disparate applications accumulated through acquisitions.

Outside the corporate world, Oracle Cloud technologies are having a major impact on high-speed auto racing. Oracle Red Bull Racing CEO Christian Horner told Catz the Formula 1 team is gaining a competitive advantage by using Oracle Cloud technologies to increase the number of simulations it runs to inform in-race decisions.

Ellison Highlights Multicloud and Next-Gen Healthcare

In his keynote, Larry Ellison, chairman and CTO of Oracle, shared how we can take on the most complex problems across entire industries with the right technology and strategy. He used the evolution of multicloud and Oracle’s groundbreaking work in the healthcare industry as an example.

“There should be an internet of clouds so customers can choose,” Ellison said. “In the end, I think all the clouds will interconnect.”

He noted that most customers currently use multiple clouds from multiple vendors. “A bigger idea is, why don’t we just interconnect all of the clouds themselves?” Ellison said. “That’s where we think the world is going.” And that’s why Microsoft and Oracle have been working together to interconnect their public cloud infrastructures.

Health Ecosystem Automation

We’re also developing next-generation healthcare applications, as part of our recent Cerner acquisition, to automate the entire ecosystem. Ellison pointed out that this is important in moving today’s provider-centric electronic health records systems (each hospital owns its own) to become more patient-centric so that any authorized doctor can see a patient’s medical history regardless of system and location.

“What we’re intending to do is keep providing hospitals with systems—and improving them—but we’re going to layer on top of that a national, and then a worldwide, electronic healthcare database so there’s one place for you to go to get all of your records,” Ellison explained.

40+ Solutions, Services, and Upgrades

We had a wave of product announcements to reflect Ellison’s multicloud vision. For example, Oracle is adding tens of thousands of NVIDIA AI-processing graphics chips to its cloud and giving customers access to NVIDIA software tools that wring even better performance from them, Catz explained during her Oracle CloudWorld keynote.

“Our expanded alliance with NVIDIA will deliver the best of both companies’ expertise to help customers across industries—from healthcare and manufacturing to telecommunications and financial services—overcome the multitude of challenges they face,” she said.
   

Oracle Alloy—Cloud for All

We also introduced Oracle Alloy, a comprehensive cloud infrastructure platform that gives organizations everything they need to become cloud service providers.

“Giving our partners and customers more choice has long been a primary focus for OCI,” Oracle Executive Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Clay Magouyrk said during his Oracle CloudWorld keynote. “Today, we’re going one step further by providing our partners with the option to become cloud providers so that they can build new services faster and address specific market and regulatory requirements.”

Magouyrk continued: “As cloud providers, our partners have more control over the customer experience for their targeted customer or industry, including where the workloads reside and how their cloud is operated.”

MySQL Heats up

CloudWorld 2022 marked the arrival of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, Oracle’s third major MySQL HeatWave announcement this year,” noted Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven.

“There is a huge growth in data stored outside of databases, and with MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, customers can leverage all the benefits of HeatWave on data residing in object store,” Screven said. “MySQL HeatWave now provides one integrated service on multiple clouds for transaction processing, analytics across data warehouses and data lakes, and machine learning without ETL. This combination helps deliver massive improvements in performance, automation, and cost—further distancing MySQL HeatWave from other cloud database services.”

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