Oracle bets on machine learning and AI to differentiate from rivals

Oracle is strengthening its cloud offerings to gain an upper hand over rivals and differentiate from the crowd. Thomas Kurian, president of product development at Oracle, told Gulf News that the company is applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to its cloud offerings in a bid to help customers lower cost, cut risk, accelerate innovation and get predictive insights. Moreover, he said that Oracle will be the only cloud provider to offer enterprise service-level of 99.95 per cent on infrastructure security. "If we don't meet that, we will take penalties. It is because of the design of what we do for reliability. Other vendors offer no guarantees around performance. Enterprise customers require critical business applications to perform at consistent and reliable levels," he said.