Oracle, historically perceived as a late entrant in the cloud services market, and more commonly known for its database capability, is now pedalling a bold new trajectory that could reshape the competitive cloud landscape. Since April 2024, Oracle has introduced several major updates such as the DR-25 initiative, which effectively shrinks its distributed cloud footprint to a compact, three-rack solution deployable directly within customer environments. This allows clients to operate as the sole tenant of a cloud region while leveraging the full suite of public cloud services. Oracle has rolled out a comprehensive multi-cloud approach. “We’re actually building the entire OCI cloud regions inside of ...