AT&T to replace Starbucks as CEO Hurd's new addiction?
Oracle has scooped a contract with AT&T that will see the telcos move thousands of its large scale internal databases to Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Under the agreement, AT&T will migrate its existing Oracle databases containing petabytes of data plus their associated applications workloads to Oracle Cloud.
Ah, Mark Hurd. The man who never sleeps or eats, just strides purposefully from meeting to meeting with a Starbucks non-free Latte (surely "coffee flavoured milkshake", Ed?) either clasped in his hand or displayed prominently on podiums. It helps that Starbucks is a customer of Oracle, mind you, but one wonders if Hurd will now brandish an AT&T phone or some suitably branded apparel or merchandise?
The agreement gives AT&T global access to Oracle's cloud portfolio offerings both in the public cloud and on AT&T's Integrated Cloud. This includes Oracle's IaaS, PaaS, Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) which, says Oracle, will help increase productivity, reduce IT costs and enable AT&T to gain new flexibility in how it implements SaaS applications across its global enterprise.
AT&T has also agreed to implement Oracle's Field Service Cloud (OFSC) to further optimise the scheduling and dispatch functions for its more than 70,000 field technicians. Using OFSC, AT&T will combine its existing machine learning and big data capabilities with Oracle's technology with the aim of increasing the productivity, on-time arrivals and job duration accuracy of its site engineers.