Tom Fenton started this four-part series because he was interested in the Oracle Cloud's new ability to offer Arm-based compute instances, but limited "Always Free" capacity leads to disappointment in ...

IT buyers like the operational flexibility that the public cloud provides. Capital expenditures go away. OpEx becomes predictable. Resources are available on-demand, with near-endless scalability.

Oracle is set to transform into a top-tier cloud infrastructure player after securing a $300 billion, five-year deal with OpenAI. The "Stargate" project will see ORCL deliver massive AI data center ...