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Last week, TEAM Cloud attended the Oracle AI World Tour in Sydney, a landmark event showcasing the latest in cloud infrastructure, AI adoption, and enterprise technology strategies. The conference brought together industry leaders, technology partners, and enterprise users to explore how AI and cloud can deliver tangible business outcomes in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape.
A highlight of the conference was a presentation by TEAM Cloud’s Volker Schaberg and Jason McHenry on Kāinga Ora’s recent cloud migration. The project involved moving 78 databases, over 150 terabytes of data, and 115 servers into TEAM Cloud, New Zealand’s sovereign Oracle Dedicated Realm.
Completed in just 14 weeks with the support of Cognizant NZ and Oracle, the migration significantly improved performance, resilience, and compliance while ensuring that sensitive data remains securely within New Zealand. This project demonstrates how government and public sector organisations can confidently leverage cloud infrastructure without compromising data sovereignty.
A core theme of the event was the growing role of AI in every layer of technology. Jason Langley, Managing Director of Oracle New Zealand, highlighted how AI is being embedded across hardware, databases, applications, and enterprise data.
In an interview with Reseller News, Langley emphasised the need to educate New Zealand organisations on Oracle’s holistic AI and cloud approach, noting that many businesses still associate Oracle primarily with databases or ERP systems. He stressed that Oracle is now a second-generation cloud infrastructure provider with AI integrated across its portfolio. (Reseller News)
Another key focus of Langley’s discussion was expanding the partner ecosystem in New Zealand. By working with local cloud providers like TEAM Cloud, Oracle is helping mid-market and enterprise organisations adopt cloud and AI solutions more effectively.
Langley explained that the partnership model focuses on recruiting, enabling, and activating partners, supporting them through the sales process, and creating joint demand-generation initiatives. This approach ensures that customers can access Oracle’s cloud and AI capabilities with strong local support and guidance.
Oracle also showcased initiatives designed to accelerate AI adoption in the region. The AI Customer Excellence Centre in Sydney will serve as a hub for innovation and collaboration, helping customers prepare data for AI, test prototypes, and apply generative AI tools to real-world challenges.
In addition, Oracle expanded its AI Database services to AWS in Australia and New Zealand, enabling customers to run workloads on the hyperscaler of their choice while still benefiting from Oracle’s AI-infused enterprise database technology. (Reseller News)
Attending the Oracle AI World Tour reinforced the value of collaboration between vendors, partners, and customers. For TEAM Cloud, the event was an opportunity to showcase successful projects like Kāinga Ora, learn from Oracle’s AI strategy, and reaffirm our commitment to helping New Zealand organisations realise the benefits of secure, sovereign, and high-performance cloud infrastructure.
As AI adoption accelerates, preparing data, modernising infrastructure, and choosing trusted local partners will be critical to achieving meaningful results. TEAM Cloud is proud to support businesses and government agencies on this journey, combining Oracle’s leading technology with deep local expertise and data sovereignty assurance.
Contact us today to learn more about TEAM Cloud.