Oracle’s Wei Hu Talks Raft Replication, Vector Search, and Global Resilience | Cloud Wars Live

Wei Hu is the Senior Vice President, High Availability
Technologies, at Oracle. In today's Cloud Wars Live, Hu sits down
with Bob Evans for a wide-ranging discussion on Oracle’s globally
distributed database, AI-native workloads, and how Oracle is
helping businesses meet data sovereignty requirements while
delivering high performance, elasticity, and always-on
availability across regions.


Where AI Meets Your Data


The Big Themes:



Globally Distributed Exadata Database on
Exascale: Oracle’s Globally Distributed Exadata
Database on Exascale Infrastructure delivers something few
cloud providers can: high performance, high availability, and
full compliance. Built on Oracle’s powerful Exadata platform,
this architecture removes the traditional need to purchase or
manage hardware. Organizations can start small and elastically
scale compute and memory across multiple regions.


Agentic AI and Vector Search at Enterprise
Scale: Oracle’s database innovation is designed for
real-world AI demands, especially agentic AI. AI agents need
massive compute, consistent availability, and extremely fast
access to live business data. Oracle’s globally distributed
architecture supports in-memory vector indexes for
lightning-fast retrieval augmented generation (RAG), making AI
more responsive and effective. Additionally, Oracle keeps AI
close to the data — eliminating stale data issues and ensuring
compliance.


Built for a Sovereign Cloud World: Data
residency and sovereignty are no longer optional, they’re legal
imperatives. Countries around the world are implementing strict
rules on where data must be stored, how it can be accessed, and
who can process it. Oracle addresses these challenges with
policy-driven data distribution, allowing customers to define
how and where data lives. Whether it’s for compliance with
India’s payment data regulations or Europe’s GDPR, Oracle
enables precise control without requiring app changes or
replication of the full stack.



The Big Quote: “The other thing that's interesting about agentic
AI is that it's very dynamic. The work comes in, the demands
comes in, like a tidal wave. Then it goes away, right, then a
little, then when it comes again, there's another tidal wave. So,
what you really want to do is have an infrastructure that is
elastic, that can scale up and down depending on the demand."


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Connect with Wei Hu on LinkedIn and learn more about
Globally Distributed Exadata Database on Exascale
Infrastructure.

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