Oracle CloudWorld 2022, which took place in Las Vegas and online, was a chance for the Austin, Texas-based database services and cloud vendor to showcase its offerings in the fiercely competitive cloud industry today. More than 12,000 participants from multitudes of sectors attended over the course of four days in Las Vegas, beginning on October 17 and ending on the 20.
“What we learnt during the pandemic is it was extremely necessary to have a digital connection with your workers, your customers, your suppliers, and your partners,” said Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle, during the opening keynote of CloudWorld 2022. ‘We also taught that being aggressive is the only way to win, and that timidity will wipe you out,’ she added.
Moore’s Law is Dead?
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was the day’s first speaker, and his presentation was one of the most anticipated. Huang claims that Moore’s Law is becoming less and less applicable to the development of computer units over the previous few years and that this trend is apparent today.
If current technological trends continue over the next decade, as Huang predicts they must, then workload acceleration is inevitable, and AI will play a crucial part in this. And based on Huang’s address, Nvidia is committed to its mission, “to allow you to accomplish more, without paying so much more, and without consuming so much more energy.”
Oracle, through a renewed cooperation with Nvidia, may deliver four unique advantages that would help to realise this central goal:
- Data – Oracle has a rich history in data management. All aspects of data management, from archiving to sharing to analysis, rely on solid data storage and processing standards.
- AI – Nvidia contributes its experience in AI across the board, from data processing and ML training to AI simulation and finally, AI deployment.
- Large Infrastructure – The AIs can’t be created or trained without an infrastructure that is both fast and efficient at its fundamental data processing. Thanks to Oracle’s massive investment, the company will be able to offer cloud computing on a massive scale.
- Rich Ecosystem of Developers and Partners – By working together, the network of developers and partners may expand their technological reach to include more people across the globe.
Intra-Cloud is The Future of the Cloud
According to Oracle’s CTO and board chairman, Larry Ellison, “most organisations utilise several clouds.” There is a wide range of cloud infrastructure providers, from small start-ups to industry giants like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud. Oracle’s new MySQL Heatwave, which was just released, is fully interoperable with AWS and Azure, among others. A key concept, as Larry put it, is “taking a service and making it available for multiple clouds.” And that’s better than nothing,” he added.
However, the central concept involves clouds that are linked together. In which resources from any other cloud might be accessed by the user. Larry describes it as a cloud intranet. In the past, cloud services were thought of as a walled garden but with the Oracle/Microsoft Multi-Cloud Interconnect, consumers now have the option of using free multi-cloud services, allowing, for example, apps in Azure to connect to databases in Oracle Cloud or vice versa.
The collapse of these garden walls has liberated the consumer. Since every cloud is linked to every other cloud, every service is available to every consumer. To paraphrase Larry: “The consumer will make the choice, rather than the garden owner.”
What’s New?
At the start of his presentation, Clay Magouyrk, the Executive Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure stated, “Oracle is investing very heavily in functionality for every form of workload across any type of cloud provider.” Clay led a presentation on day three of Oracle CloudWorld 2022 that aimed to shed light on some of Oracle’s newest offerings.
Some of the announced additions and upgrades to the OCI were:
- Serverless Kubernetes.
- OCI Container Instances.
- GPU Super Clusters.
- MongoDB compatibility.
- MySQL Heatwave.
- LakeHouse.
- Privacy Assurance.
Clay mentioned these unique additions to OCI infrastructure are to tackle multi-layered complex analytics and computing for their clients. Some use-cases include:
- Nibio – Nibio captures videos and photographs of woods using drones. Nibio will next develop Machine-Learning models to comprehend and improve which areas of the woods are healthy and which areas are unhealthy. Drones may enter the area and subtly enhance the condition of the forests as a whole.
- SoundHound – SoundHound is all about voice experience. Mercedes, Hyundai and Pandora, for instance, run on top of the SoundHound platform. The platform runs more than a billion AI transactions a month on top of OCI.
- University of Jena – The researchers from the university use computational fluid dynamics to create models to understand earthquake behaviours. They utilise the Oracle Ampere A1 computing unit, a performant and affordable solution to help them with the computation prowess needed.
- Adept – Adept is a Machine-Learning (ML) research and product lab that aims to foster collaborative problem-solving between humans and machines. The Action Transformer (ACT-1) is a massive Transformer that has been taught to operate digital devices, including a web browser. ACT-1 is now connected to a Chrome extension that lets it monitor the web and respond to events like clicking, typing, scrolling, etc.
The cloud computing industry has had tremendous growth this year. Partnerships and other bold moves have been made. Where will cloud computing go from here? When it comes to new ideas, Oracle has made theirs heard. Let’s hold off till other titans follow suit.
