'Align AI and business goals for better results'
Financial Express Mumbai|January 09, 2025
ENTERPRISES ARE increasingly recognising the value of multicloud architectures and the ability to capitalise on the unique strengths of various cloud platforms to enhance their operational capabilities, says Shailender Kumar, senior vice-president and regional managing director of Oracle India and Netsuite JAPAC. In this interview, he speaks to Sudhir Chowdhary on the emerging trends in cloud computing and how cloud providers are embedding AI capabilities into their services. Excerpts:
Shailender Kumar

Why is multicloud essential for modern businesses?

Over the past years, conversations with customers have revealed a clear perspective. They seek a platform that empowers their operations without imposing restrictions – one that offers the flexibility to select the optimal cloud environment tailored to the needs of their most critical workloads. Multicloud has become a strategic necessity and standard for businesses, which is fundamentally providing the flexibility to choose the best-of-breed solutions from different cloud providers without being tied to a single provider, ensuring performance, scalability, and control.

How is Oracle helping customers accelerate cloud adoption to their advantage?

Cloud has been witnessing accelerated acceptance for its price-performance, cost optimisation, scalability, flexibility, and business continuity. Yet, many organisations have not embarked on their cloud journeys because they have workloads that cannot effectively run in the public cloud because of either latency, data residency or data sovereignty.

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