 Live from the Oracle Conference Center in the heart of Silicon Valley, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering the Oracle Cloud Launch, brought to you by Oracle. Now your host, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live on the ground pre-event coverage or pre-gaming Larry Ellis' keynote at Oracle Cloud's platform announcements. I'm John Furrier. My co-host Dave Vellante, this is theCUBE, our flagship program. We can go out to the events and extract the signal and noise. Our next guest is Prashant Ketkar, VP of Product Management, infrastructure group, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you very much, great to be here. The press are rolling in, exclusive announcement, Larry Ellis is going to be on stage with the flare, boom, boom, crane, jib, all the cameras are rolling. Yeah. What's going on? What's going on with Oracle hardware, space, the infrastructure, engineered systems? Is that coming together with the cloud? What's going on? Yeah, I mean, look, you know, we are investing in all three layers of the stack. As you know, we've been on the journey for several years and making sure our applications are available in the cloud as SaaS offerings. We announced the platform offerings about a year ago and we are now, you know, entering and continuing to expand our footprint in the infrastructure space. So we want to play in all three layers of the stack, in the software as a service area, in the platform as a service area, and in the infrastructure as a service area. So one of the big announcements is the Oracle Cloud archive storage, kind of like leaking that out a little bit here, what's going to be minutes before it gets announced. We heard a global CIO on earlier who says, I want my people focused in on not on what's going on at the port level, I want them focused on the business application kind of analytics. That's right. And I want that abstracted away. Is that what you guys are doing? Can you share what you're doing in that area? Yeah, I mean, we are on the infrastructure side. We are doing a few very interesting things, specifically around the storage side. You know, we believe we are going to do disruptive things on the business model side. We've also innovated on the technology side, where what we've done essentially is build a single policy based storage fabric through which a customer can tune the types of storage services that they're using in the back end without having to change anything in their application. So if you- Zero application change. Zero application change. I think that's the key. If you were to go to any one of our competitors today, if you wrote an application that called on, you know, the S3 storage service with Amazon or with their Glacier storage service and you tomorrow decided that you had to make a change to that class of service around storage, you would actually have to go tweak your application and change your application to accommodate for that back end service change. With what we are doing, we are making it completely transparent to the application developer so that he can really through policy change the type of service that's being accessed on the back end. So my policy could be age-based. It could be age-based. It could be performance-based. Compliance, issue. I want to put this in my deep archive. Absolutely. And so, you know, you mentioned Glacier, Amazon claims it's one of its fastest growing services in history. Yes. You know, whatever it is, a penny per gigabyte per month or something to store it. How do you compare and can you get it back or do I have to sort of wait six months? Absolutely not. I think you can get it back instantaneously or based on the policy that you set on how frequently you want to access it or when you want to access it. So you definitely can get it back. And we're going to do something very interesting from a business model perspective. I think you should wait to hear Larry announce that in his keynote, which he was doing shortly. I can't tell you exactly what we're going to do. But we're talking pricing and we're talking sort of how we're doing it. I gave you a little bit of an indicator into what we are doing from a technology perspective and how we're going to differentiate. I think the other key driver is what we're going to do from a business standpoint with storage. We are also doing very interesting integrations between our infrastructure or hardware products on premises, storage products on premises and products on the cloud. So as an example, today if you use our database as a service product, you can simply back up a database into the object storage service that we have in the public cloud space. And it's a simple URL point. You don't have to write code. It's a simple click and you can back it up to the Oracle Storage Cloud. So tight integration. Tight integration between hardware, software and apps. So how are people going to use this? What type of customers are candidates for this? Yeah, I think there are a variety of industries that come to mind. Any industry that requires to retain data for long periods of time. So you know, your typical usual suspects, the financial services industry, the insurance industry that require to retain claim records for regulatory purposes for, you know, I think it's 20 years here in the United States. You know, media and entertainment companies that, you know, archive masters of their films are, you know, interesting candidates. But you could see that there are a variety of verticals and a variety of industries that could use the service in many, many different ways. Prashant, one of the things that people are concerned about with the cloud, forget security for a second. We can talk about that. But there's data location. Yes. I'm in Germany. I have my data has to stay in Germany. Are you hearing that? Of course you're hearing that. But how are you solving that? Does this solution help? Yeah, I think it's a journey and it's a two-step journey. I think there are classes of applications that have very stringent requirements around data sovereignty and where data resides. And then there are other classes of applications for whom the data could be anywhere. Or in fact, they would want the data to be, you know, stored in a backup site someplace else where it's at least 500, 600 miles away from their primary data center. So we see very, very interesting scenarios in which customers are using not just the storage cloud, but the cloud in general, right? And the storage service. They are using it to DR, their primary data center to the cloud. So they DR to the cloud is one scenario. DR of the cloud is another scenario. I'm already running something in the cloud and I want to put it on some other cloud. You know, it could be Amazon, it could be Microsoft. What have you? So I got to ask you if a customer says, hey, just bottom line me, are you DevOps compatible? Yeah, you know, look. Then what does that mean? Yeah, I think it's a very interesting question. I think it's the- Just say yes. No, no, but I mean, that's what they want. They want some future proof. They want to know that I'm going to build an agile application environment. I need storage that's going to respond in software. Yes. So what we are doing is we are making sure that when we think about the design point for what we are building for public cloud, we are also factoring that back into what we are doing with our on-premises software. Be it the database product, be it our infrastructure products with hardware, be it our operating systems. And what we want to make sure is that customers have compatibility between architecture that is on the cloud, public cloud and architecture that they're building in their own data center when they are using our products. So that when they build an application, whether they're building it on the public cloud or they're building it in their own private data center or private cloud environment, they can move back with as little or no code change as possible. I think that's the core of what we are trying to do with investing in all three layers of the stack and making sure that the architecture stays consistent between on-prem and on the cloud. So everyone's rolling in now, we're getting ready to break. If I want to ask you a final question, what's the vibe inside Oracle right now? A lot of mojo back from old school Oracle, engineers coming in, engineers coming in, new blood coming in, engineered systems as a good bet, clouds here, application markets exploding and transforming. You guys seem to be positioned well. What's the vibe internally? I think, look, it's a very interesting space to be in, particularly in the enterprise side. The journey is just beginning. I think the enterprise infrastructure in the cloud or the enterprise platform in the cloud is not built yet. There's a lot of opportunity and we are very, very excited to participate in the journey with our customers. Well, thanks so much for joining us in theCUBE. We appreciate it. We're getting ready for the big announcement. The press are rolling in. You can see behind us Dave. We've got a lot of action happening. We're going to take a break. We're going to do some segments in between Larry Ellison and the execs. We're going to break away from that and do our kind of half-time commentary. That's theCUBE. Stay tuned for more live coverage. Larry Ellison will be about to kind of get on stage. He's in the building from what I hear. We'll be right back at this short break.