There was a time when many businesses invested in building and running in-house data centers. Not anymore.

Oracle Consulting and Deloitte Consulting LLP formed a partnership — Elevate — in September to help businesses with a transition from data center to cloud that now seems inevitable.

“We’re now at the point where large transformation at scale, of getting out of your data centers, is now here,” said Don Schmidt (pictured, right), managing director at Deloitte. “There’s lots of ways to do this faster and cheaper. Get on to innovation, spend your money there — and not on hardware, floor space and power cooling.”

Schmidt spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, as part of Oracle Consulting’s “Empowering the Autonomous Enterprise of the Future” initiative. He was joined by Mike Owens (pictured, left), group vice president of cloud advisory and general manager of Oracle Consulting Elevate, and they discussed how the Elevate partnership leverages offerings from both firms and the different elements of a cloud-migration journey for enterprises. (* Disclosure below.)

Automated migration tools

The collaboration between Oracle Consulting and Deloitte leverages tools offered by both partners. Oracle Consulting provides automated cloud-migration utilities through its Soar offering, and Deloitte supports the initiative with its ATADATA cloud-discovery platform.

“Why not partner with an organization that does large business transformation like Deloitte?” Owens asked. “Our partnership is not about taking a bunch of customers and moving a couple of application workloads. What we’re chartered to do is make huge transformational leaps for our customers using the combined capabilities of the two organizations.”

Both partners see the migration toward cloud from the perspective of the different-sized companies and industries making the transition.

“There are startup organizations where cloud was ripe for them at the early stages,” Schmidt said. “For other organizations that have built these large application stacks that have been there for years, it’s scary.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the “Empowering the Autonomous Enterprise of the Future” initiative. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the Oracle Consulting Empowering the Autonomous Enterprise program. Neither Oracle Consulting, the sponsor for theCUBE’s coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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