Oracle Cloud & AT&T, AWS Lead Cloud News Roundup
Find out what’s happening with each company and how it all ties to the channel.
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Five years down the road from their first team-up, Oracle and AT&T have extended their work together for another half-decade.
AT&T continues to add to its capacity and capabilities, internally and for end users. To do that, it will keep leaning on Oracle Cloud for Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning, Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and other services.
“AT&T’s cloud transition is a critical initiative for our business,” said Jon Summers, senior vice president, information technology, at AT&T. “We’ve worked closely with Oracle on some of our toughest technology challenges over the years, and we’re excited to renew this collaboration for another five years.”
Find out more on the next slide.
Here’s how AT&T will use the various Oracle Cloud platforms.
First, it will employ Oracle Cloud ERP to eliminate manual processes. That comes as part of AT&T’s ongoing financial and supply chain transformation. Meantime, AT&T will look to Oracle Cloud CX to engage customers with personalized content. And Oracle’s cloud infrastructure services will help AT&T modernize its IT environment and consolidate data centers.
“AT&T is continually reinventing itself to better connect people and businesses, and we’re proud to extend our partnership to support that connectivity,” said Jonathan Tikochinsky, executive vice president, strategic clients group, at Oracle. “By using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Fusion Applications, AT&T is able to continue scaling globally and adapting to the evolving telecommunications market.”
There’s another certification for Amazon Web Services partners to pursue.
This week, the world’s largest cloud provider launched its Supply Chain Competency. It targets partners who deliver professional services and cloud-native supply chain solutions. Taking a cloud-native approach helps organizations with customer responsiveness and strengthens resilience, AWS said.
“The world is grappling with a perfect storm of supply chain challenges triggered by a global pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, weather and labor disruptions,” Manish Govil, Kartik Mehta, and Christin Voytko, all part of AWS’ supply chain group, wrote in a blog. “This has resulted in rampant product shortages, unplanned price increases, and chronic uncertainty across global supply chain for companies of all sizes and industries.”
On the next slide, we’ll go into what the Supply Chain Competency helps end users achieve.
AWS says its brand-new certification proves that participating AWS partners can help them navigate supply chain challenges.
To that end, AWS is using the competency program to highlight the partners who have proven technical proficiency and customer enablement.
Initial partners include Accenture, Anaplan, o9 Solutions, Slalom and Vinculum Solutions.
The supply chain competency news comes a couple of weeks after AWS revamped its security program with new specializations.
Data center provider Flexential, which sells through the channel, this week unveiled changes to its FlexAnywhere hybrid IT solutions portfolio.
The enhancements apply to the company’s hosted private cloud platform, made up of VMware vCenter servers within Flexential’s data centers. Now, enterprises get full control of their private cloud environments, Flexential said. New capabilities include the ability to rapidly migrate applications, workloads and data. There’s also new support for advanced metrics and reporting tools, per Flexential.
Flexential’s upgraded offering comes as Gartner forecasts almost $500 billion on public cloud services just this year. That number will hit almost $600 billion next year, according to analysts. With that in mind, Flexential said, businesses need to be able to offer remote work while retaining operational control.
“Flexibility has never been more essential to the modern-day enterprise,” said Mike Fuhrman, COO of cloud and managed services at Flexential. “[O]ur team is providing customers with the tools and insights they need to be more agile in their workload placements, application operations and overall performance. As business needs shift, we continue to meet customers with the solutions that will drive efficiency no matter their operational location.”
And that’s a wrap for cloud computing news this week. In case you missed any of our other cloud updates between Aug. 9 and Aug. 12, here’s what you might want to check out:
• Partner Program Updates: Microsoft, TD Synnex, AppSmart, Cisco, Verizon
• Nutanix Layoffs Coming, Analysts Point to ‘Significant Overspending’
• Dataminr Launches Global Partner Program, Participation from AWS, Microsoft, More
• CEO on Rackspace Restructuring: ‘We’re Excited About … 2 Business Units’
• New Google Cloud Regions Coming to Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand
• Another Avaya Bankruptcy Pending? Company Launches Internal Investigations
And that’s a wrap for cloud computing news this week. In case you missed any of our other cloud updates between Aug. 9 and Aug. 12, here’s what you might want to check out:
• Partner Program Updates: Microsoft, TD Synnex, AppSmart, Cisco, Verizon
• Nutanix Layoffs Coming, Analysts Point to ‘Significant Overspending’
• Dataminr Launches Global Partner Program, Participation from AWS, Microsoft, More
• CEO on Rackspace Restructuring: ‘We’re Excited About … 2 Business Units’
• New Google Cloud Regions Coming to Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand
• Another Avaya Bankruptcy Pending? Company Launches Internal Investigations
Some big cloud computing news popped up this week, from Avaya and Rackspace to Google Cloud and Nutanix. But other items arose, too. We’ve got those in this short slideshow, above. If you’re keen for a preview, consider these names: Oracle Cloud and AT&T; Amazon Web Services; and Flexential.
We don’t want to give away too much. You’ll want to know what Oracle Cloud and AT&T are doing together, five years after their first time partnering. And if you’re an AWS partner doing anything with supply chain matters, get the scoop on a new program in which you might be able to participate. Finally, data center provider Flexential has some changes that can impact partners.
Let’s start, kicking off with Oracle Cloud and AT&T.
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