question about the "smaller guys" in cloud (Oracle, IBM):
Do these companies operate their own data centers all over the world to make their cloud offerings work?
"Cloud" is kind of a magical handwavy way to say "don't worry about where the computers are, it will just work." With AWS and Azure I don't worry about where the computers are, because they're all over the world (and even under water, if you follow publicity stunts).
But where are the massive IBM/Oracle/etc data centers? Are they out there, and I just don't know about it?
Oracle cloud is quite a thing. It's in 4th place behind AWS, Azure and GCP and has significant presence. For example zoom is a big customer:https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/why-zoom-chose-oracle-clo.... I assume under the new tiktok deal, tiktok might run on the Oracle cloud.
I don’t know if this is the case here, but you can also rent space in someone else’s datacenter. Meaning the datacenter itself wouldn’t be run by IBM/Oracle, just some of the hardware inside it.
I was under the impression ( Not sure if it still true ) that AWS and Azure do not operate and owe all of their "own" datacenter, some of them were with Eqaunix ?
Do these companies operate their own data centers all over the world to make their cloud offerings work?
"Cloud" is kind of a magical handwavy way to say "don't worry about where the computers are, it will just work." With AWS and Azure I don't worry about where the computers are, because they're all over the world (and even under water, if you follow publicity stunts).
But where are the massive IBM/Oracle/etc data centers? Are they out there, and I just don't know about it?