Cloud has become a business operative, says Oracle Executive VP

Cloud adoption is definitely on the upswing globally as well as in India, says Andrew Mendelsohn, executive vice-president, Oracle. According to him, as customers look to move to the cloud, Oracle is very well-positioned to help them through their IT modernisation and transformation. “Our focus is to create more market opportunity with all customers—across private and public sector, modern firms and startups—all alike, to make available to them the technology of tomorrow, today, so they are freed from ‘managing IT’ to focus on innovating faster and serving their end customers better,” he tells Sudhir Chowdhary in an interview. Excerpts:

What’s new in the enterprise tech landscape? What trends are resonating with customers?
For many years, customers have been in a hybrid world—a lot of their systems still run in on-premises environments and newer systems are running on the cloud. But now, cloud has become a business imperative, and the stakes are very high. As customers look to move to the cloud, we are very well-positioned to help them through their IT modernisation and transformation. Oracle is an easy choice for customers as they already have these existing systems on-premises and is far easier for them to move to Oracle Cloud than to any other provider.