Cloudflare and Oracle Build a Better Internet with OCI: Oracle CloudWorld 2024

Thank you. It's great, it's very exciting here to have a younger technology company, not one 47 years old like us, not yet anyway.

Oh, well thank you so much for the opportunity to be here. It's such a privilege. Hi everyone, I'm Michelle. I'm one of the founders of a company called Cloudflare and we call ourselves a connectivity cloud. What does that mean? Well, actually we're hearing about so many businesses today that are moving from how they used to do business to a more modern world. And some of it's on premise, some of it's in the cloud. You need something to connect all of that. Somewhere to control your security, somewhere to think about performance, somewhere to think about privacy for your users and employees, and of course resilience. And that's really the connectivity cloud. That's what Cloudflare offers. We work with businesses both small and large around the world to ensure that their applications are protected, their employees are protected for their zero trust platform, and that they're enabled to do whatever they need to do in this modern world. A little bit of a fun fact: yesterday we stopped 157 billion with a B cyber attacks on behalf of all of our customers. We work with millions of businesses around the world. That means we do the math, about 100 million cyber attacks we help stop automatically without any human intervention since I walked on stage. And I think that is the power of modern technology today. And what's left to be done? Well, and I can tell you one thing, it's not getting safer out there. And so more and more responsibility falls on companies like you and us.

Absolutely. Well, you know, one of the best parts of my job is I get to work with companies around the world. And one thing that keeps coming up more and more is I see so many more companies choosing OCI. And I think it's for so many different reasons. All the things that you've been talking about today: the performance, built for performance, the security posture, how Oracle has this huge legacy but you're just so modern. And I think one thing that has not come up since I've been on stage is how innovative Oracle has been and how innovative the OCI team is, bringing new ideas to the market for their customers. Of course you want to be all the i's dotted and t's crossed for customers like the CIA, but you also want to be nimble and agile in this very dynamic world where things are moving all the time. And so one thing that I see with companies is about over 50% of companies today have a multicloud setup and it's only increasing by the week. Five years ago that was not the case. Five years ago the state of affairs was, hey, I'm going to pick one cloud, I'm going to go on and on one cloud. That's just not realistic. And so in this multicloud world you want to be able to mix and match the best features depending on the cloud provider. And again, I think OCI is just out there doing so much in the marketplace. Last thing I'll just say, which I think is really interesting and is becoming more important in this next inning of operating in today's modern world, is how you describe yourself as priced for performance, which I think is really important. We are all, every business is under pressure to say, hey, how do I do things more efficiently so I can go take those savings and reinvest back in other parts of our business, whether it's AI or building products for our customers. And so I think those are some of the things that we've really seen both at Cloudflare but more broadly in the industry about why more businesses are moving to OCI.