
By Byron V. Acohido
One meeting I had at RSA Conference 2023, was a briefing about a new partnership, announced this morning, between a top-rung Silicon Valley tech giant and the leading provider of digital trust.
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I had the chance to sit down with Deepika Chauhan, DigiCert’s Chief Product Officer, and Mike Cavanagh, Oracle’s Group Vice President, ISV Cloud for North America. They walked me through a partnership that gives their joint customers the option to deploy Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) combined with DigiCert ONE. Here are a few of my takeaways:
Seeds of the partnership
In 2017, DigiCert acquired and commenced reviving Symantec’s PKI business. This was all part of the Lehi, Utah-based vendor’s efforts to support enterprise cloud migration and the rise of IoT systems, which were both gaining steam.
This ultimately resulted in the 2020 roll out of DigiCert ONE, a new platform of tools and services aimed at “embedding digital trust across the board within the enterprise and between all parts of the cloud ecosystem,” Chauhan says.
Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup. Amazon had introduced Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure became commercially available in 2010. Oracle launched OCI in October 2016.