Oracle Magazine, July/August 2019
INTERVIEW ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2019 9 Maybe you understand when a web page takes time to load because the page is hosted thousands of miles away but how understanding are you when your enterprise cloud applications seem slower than before As your company combines on premises applications and databases with cloud based applications and databases your networking challenges are changing Oracle Magazine sat down with Charlie Baker senior director of product management and strategy at Oracle to talk cloud networking challenges strategies for addressing those challenges Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect networking support for Oracle Autonomous Database and more Oracle Magazine What are the key networking challenges in cloud computing today Baker Its an interesting question When I used to train people on different ways to think about connectivity I would usually start out with a question Who owns the internet First there would be quiet in the room Then answers would start coming answers like the cable company or the telephone company or the government The internet is a lot of things to a lot of people but in terms of connectivity the internet is a relationship of the different networks that get you from point A to point B And depending on how an operator or a customer or a business accesses information or applications across the internet there is almost an infinite number of paths to take to get from point A to point B because thats the purpose of the internet But businesses dont need infinite internet paths they need to look at connections to their applications and services in terms of reliability flexibility and security Providing a reliable flexible and secure cloud network is the key challenge and the challenge for cloud vendors is to make it easy to get that up and running Depending on how important each of those connection qualities is businesses will make different choices for how to connect people to where they need to go how to connect two applications together how to connect backup systems and so on to be able to have everyone and every system operate in this environment that we call the cloud enabled world Oracle Magazine What are the strategies for addressing these cloud networking challenges
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