Full Description / Show Notes
Guillermo talks about how he came to work at OCI and what it was like helping to pioneer Oracle’s cloud product (1:40)
Corey and Guillermo discuss the challenges and realities of multi-cloud (6:00)
Corey asks about OCI’s dedicated region approach (8:27)
Guillermo discusses the problem of awareness (12:40)
Corey and Guillermo talk cloud providers and cloud migration (14:40)
Guillermo shares about how OCI’s cost and customer service is unique among cloud providers (16:56)
Corey and Guillermo talk about IoT services and 5G (23:58)
About Guillermo RuizGuillermo Ruiz gets into trouble more often than he would like. During his career Guillermo has seen many horror stories while building data centers worldwide. In 2007 he dreamed with space-based internet and direct routing between satellites, but he could only reach “the Cloud”. And there he is, helping customer build their business in someone else servers since 2011.Beware of his sense of humor...If you ever see him in a tech event, run, he will get you in problems.Links:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IaaSgeek, https://twitter.com/OracleStartup

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gruizesteban/

TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I’m Corey Quinn. I’ve been meaning to get a number of folks on this show for a while and today is absolutely one of those episodes. I’m joined by Guillermo Ruiz who is the Director of OCI Developer Evangelism, slash the Director of Oracle for Startups. Guillermo, thank you for joining me, and is Oracle for Startups an oxymoron because it kind of feels like it in some weird way, in the fullness of time.Guillermo: [laugh]. Thanks, Corey. It’s a pleasure being in your show.Corey: Well, thank you. I enjoy having you here. I’ve been trying to get you on for a while. I’m glad I finally wore you down.Guillermo: [laugh]. Thanks. As I said, well, startup, I think, is the future of the industry, so it’s a fundamental piece of our building blocks for the next generation of services.Corey: I have to say that I know that you folks at Oracle Cloud have been a recurring sponsor of the show. Thank you for that, incidentally. This is not a promoted guest episode. I invited you on because I wanted to talk to you about these things, which means that I can say more or less whatever I damn well want. And my experience with Oracle Cloud has been one of constantly being surprised since I started using it a few years ago, long before I was even taking sponsorships for this show. It was, “Oh, Oracle has a cloud. This ought to be rich.”And I started kicking the tires on it and I came away consistently and repeatedly impressed by the technical qualities the platform has. The always-free tier has a model of cloud economics that great. I have a sizable VM running there and have for years and it’s never charged me a dime. Your data egress fees aren’t, you know, a 10th of what a lot of the other cloud providers are charging, also known as, you know, you’re charging in the bounds of reality; good for that. And the platform continues to—although it is different from other cloud providers, in some respects, it continues to impress.Honestly, I keep saying one of the worst problems that has is the word Oracle at the front of it because Oracle has a 40-some-odd-year history of big enterprise systems, being stodgy, being difficult to work with, all the things you don’t generally tend to think of in terms of cloud. It really is a head turn. How did that happen? And how did you get dragged into the mess?Guillermo: Well, this came, like, back in five, six years ago, when they st