Oracle OpenWorld 2015 started off its fourth day with a keynote address highlighting the ways Cloud is changing everything in infrastructure and what Oracle has done to transition successfully. David Donatelli, executive VP of converged infrastructure at Oracle, spoke about the importance of cloud. John Fowler, executive VP of Systems at Oracle, and Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President of Systems Technology at Oracle, then went on to highlight key products.

‘Cloud is changing everything’ 

“As it relates to infrastructure, cloud has changed everything, and it’s going to continue to change everything.” This is how Donatelli opened up his portion of the keynote, addressing the fact that cloud is pivotal moving forward for one’s company. “Cloud is the biggest change happening to infrastructure in 25 or so years,” he said.

Donatelli went back through the past 28 years of architecture to highlight his point. Leaders have come and gone, shut down or sold because infrastructure has changed throughout the years, and cloud is that current change. Donatelli talked about recent events, like HP splitting in two and Dell buying EMC. “These are not random events,” emphasized Donatelli. “They’re just not happening by accident.”

Cloud is changing the business model, along with the move to flash and new architecture for speed. According to Donatelli, everyone needs to evaluate their business model moving forward and how their partners are navigating the transition successfully. What Donatelli hopes people take away from Oracle OpenWorld 2015 is that Oracle is “extremely successful in the cloud, and that our vision is extremely comprehensive.”

Engineered systems

Fowler took the stage next. “Here at Oracle, we think there’s a better way to build infrastructure,” he said. “And that’s about engineered systems.”

The great thing about Oracle, Fowler pointed out, is that it’s a platform company. “One of the top properties of platform technologies is that you all build above those,” he said.

Oracle builds its own platforms in hardware and software, and it runs its own super-scale cloud. Oracle’s goal and responsibility is improving on its platform for customers that build on top of that. “We have the intellectual, emotional and economic imperative to find better ways to do computing,” said Fowler.

Improving database infrastructure

Loaiza was welcomed on stage to speak in more detail about engineered systems within database infrastructure. “The goal is to make dramatically better databases by integrating across the full stack, putting intelligence throughout the full stack,” Loaiza said. Smart hardware is a huge component of this, along with smart software, and then integrating everything together seamlessly.

Oracle has been working on engineered systems for awhile, releasing its first one in 2008. Oracle combines the best of cloud-based platforms with the best available architecture, he added. It has a pure scale-out storage architecture, and a lot of database intelligence in storage to make it run faster.

“At every level, we’re trying to do the most modern, combine the benefits of a cloud architecture with the benefits of an enterprise architecture,” Loaiza pointed out. What’s key, though, is the unique software and algorithms that the database team has written for these platforms. “No one has this kind of architecture,” he said.

Stay tuned for the full video interview, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Oracle OpenWorld 2015. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting with theCUBE hosts.

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