Oracle Nigeria would on Thursday, April 14, this year join the worldwide
commemoration of the Oracle Cloud Day in Lagos, reports ITRealms.
This, ITRealms gathered would avail the company to have ‘Oracle Cloud Day’ celebrated across over 30
countries from the East to the West of Africa, live across 4 time zones.
Managing Director, Sub Saharan Africa Cluster in Africa, Cherian
Varghese, disclosed that this is first
of its kind, and is different to anything that Oracle has ever held before and
will be rolled-out by using their superior Cloud technology, reaching over more
than 30 locations and using webinar technology to engage regions simultaneously.
The event, he said, would bring together
over 1,100 people including Oracle employees and support staff, as well as
partners that will work together to support this great initiative, around 200 of
them presenting on the day.
“Together with Oracle’s state of
the art Cloud technology, Oracle will reach partners, channel partners,
distributors, entrepreneurs, students and consumers who have and have not yet heard
about Oracle. Over one million participants
will be reached on one day, all at the same time,” he said.
Varghese also said that participants
would be invited to engage in discussions related to all three of the Oracle Cloud
portfolios, which include Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service
(PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
ITRealms gathered that in
addition, various keynote addresses from Oracle executives such as Mr Varghese, as well as
presentations from Cloud experts, case studies and physical demos of the power
of cloud technology, through real-life experiences, showcasing how adopting cloud
can enable current and future customers.
“At Oracle, we believe that Cloud
is the most powerful force in information technology, and in short this means
that it’s changing the way we work, the way we collaborate and the way we go to
market. It will ultimately change the way we think about business,” Varghese reassured.
