Beyond AI at CloudWorld

I have been a gearhead forever. I am not talking about a certain affection for the short-block V8 either, though I suspect it all comes from the same root cause. The tech space is a whole gearhead ecosystem, just made for people like you and me. Last week, I was all over Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) like a junkyard dog. I don’t pretend to understand all of it because there’s so much. Nonetheless, in the quarter-mile race that is the software industry, I have to say that from a standing start, Oracle has done quite well. CloudWorld is not exactly a coming-out party for OCI — that happened already — but it is an extension of progress on multiple fronts. Today, Oracle can transfer workloads around the world with the ease we’ve come to expect from Netflix. Just consider some of the ways to compute in the OCI world. One press release says that “in conjunction with Red Hat OpenShift on OCI will be supported for customer-managed installations using certified configurations of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine running on OCI Compute virtual machines and bare metal instances.” Say what? I think it means that by using Red Hat Linux, you can configure the compute environment that’s right for your business, cost structure, technology needs, and more.