Sergio Castro joins Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham to explore multicloud, some of its use cases, and the reasons why many businesses are embracing this strategy.   A-Team Chronicles: https://www.ateam-oracle.com/ Oracle University Blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/oracleuniversity/ Oracle MyLearn: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/Oracle_Edu LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/   Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, the OU Podcast Team, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode.   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started. 00:26 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I’m Nikita Abraham, Principal Technical Editor with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi there! If you’ve been following along with us, you’ll know we just completed our first three seasons of the Oracle University Podcast. We’ve had such a great time exploring OCI, Data Management, and Cloud Applications business processes. And we’ve had some pretty awesome special guests, too. 00:56 Nikita: Yeah, it’s been so great having them on and so educational so do check out those episodes if you missed any of them.  Lois: As we close out the year, we thought this would be a good time to revisit some of our most popular episodes with you. Over the next few weeks, you’ll be able to listen to six of our most popular episodes from this year.  Nikita: Right, this is the best of the best–according to you–our listeners.   01:20 Lois: Today’s episode is #1 of 6 and is a throwback to a discussion with our Principal OCI Instructor Sergio Castro on multi-cloud. Keep in mind that this chat took place before the release of Oracle University’s course and certification on multi-cloud. It’s available now on mylearn.oracle.com so if it interests you, you should go check it out. Nikita: We began by asking Sergio to help us with the basics and explain what multi-cloud is. So, let’s dive right in. Here we go! 01:51 Sergio: Good question. So multi-cloud is leveraging the best offering of two or more cloud service providers. This as a strategy for an IT solution. And Oracle embraces multi-cloud. This strategy was clearly communicated during Open World in Las Vegas last year. We even had demos where OCI presenters opened the cloud Graphic User Interface of other providers during our live sessions. So the concise answer to the question is multi-cloud is two or more cloud vendors providing a consolidated solution to a customer.  02:29 Nikita: So, would an example of this be when a customer uses OCI and Azure? Sergio: Absolutely. Yes, exactly. That's what it is. We can say that our official multi-cloud approach started with the interconnect agreement with Azure. But customers, they have already been leveraging our FastConnect partners for interconnecting with other cloud providers. The interconnect agreement with Azure just made it easier. Oracle tools such as Oracle Integration and Golden Gate have been multi-cloud ready even prior to our official announcement. And if you look at the Oracle's document... the documents from Oracle, you can find VPN access to other cloud providers, but we can talk about that shortly. 03:16 Nikita: OK. So, why would organizations use a multi-cloud strategy? What do they gain by doing that? Sergio: Oh, there are many reasons why organizations might want to use a multi-cloud strategy. For example, a customer might want to have vendor redundancy. Having the application running with one vendor and having the other vendor just stand by in case something goes wrong with that cloud prov