Oracle Executive Warns: Move to the Cloud or Die
Enterprises that ignore the massive change shift that the cloud can bring to every aspect of the way they work face a shaky future, one so uncertain that they may not survive. So says Ashish Mohindroo, vice president of Oracle Cloud. Mohindroo issued this warning at the Boston stop of the Oracle Cloud Day roadshow this November.
Joel Shore covered the talk for SearchCloudApplications. In his article about it, he had this to say about Mohindroo’s message: “Cloud computing technology is creating business opportunities so radically new and different that they can be built only if we junk much of what we know, how we operate and even how we think -- everywhere in the enterprise, not just within IT. In other words, transform or die.”
Mohindroo warned that “No industry is immune” to the changes being wrought by the cloud. He believes, in the words of Shore, that “IT is currently in the midst of a once-every-20-years tectonic shift,” by moving to the cloud. The last major change was in the 1990s, when client/server computing gave way to the Internet.
Accelerating the shift to the cloud, Mohindroo says, are other technologies, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, autonomous software, the internet of things and great improvements in human-interface design. Without the cloud, these services operate separately from one another, he said, and so enterprises can’t take advantage of them. Their competitors will, though, putting them in danger.
We agree with Mohindroo. And we’d like to add another important driver as well: The emerging dominance of mobile, and the need for companies to move quickly and build mobile apps. It’s difficult for companies to do everything that needs to be done for mobile app development and deployment, and the cloud can make it immeasurably easier. To help them, we’ve build the Alpha Cloud. As Richard Rabins, Alpha Software CEO and co-chairman, notes in his blog post, The Compelling Case for Deploying to Alpha Cloud, “Even the greatest applications depend on getting the servers set up and maintained properly with scaling, load balancing, failover, and redundancy to achieve appropriate performance levels under real-world usage situations.”
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