Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is meeting customers where they are by lowering the entry point for OCI Dedicated Regions and showing a preview of Compute Cloud Customer services, which will bring more than 100 OCI public cloud services into customers’ data centers. Customers will be able to meet strict requirements for latency, data residency, and data sovereignty, which are important parts of many IT modernization projects. Customers like Nomura Research Institute (NRI), Siam Commercial Bank, and Bangladesh Data Center Company Limited (BDCCL) have chosen OCI Dedicated Region to get the full functionality of the public OCI cloud in the location of their choice.
“Distributed cloud is the next evolution of cloud computing, and it provides customers with much more flexibility and control in how they deploy cloud resources,’ said Dave McCarthy, research vice president, Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Services, IDC. “Customers are no longer restricted by location choices, data sovereignty, data residency, or latency. OCI’s distributed cloud services offer more capabilities than anyone else in the industry and place all the benefits of the public cloud directly inside a customer’s data center while still being managed remotely by OCI.”
Organizations will have more control and flexibility with the help of new OCI services.
Customers in the financial services, public sector, healthcare, and logistics industries, among others, have used OCI to support their cloud transformations without having to give upscale, data sovereignty, security, or control, which they had to do in the past.
Among the new services are:
- OCI Dedicated Region with a lower entry point: On average, the new OCI Dedicated Region uses 60–75% less data center space and power and costs a typical customer around $1 million a year less to join. More customers can now use their own data centers to get the flexibility, cost savings, and scalability of the public cloud. Customers can use OCI Dedicated Region to create a full cloud region in their own data center, with all the benefits of OCI’s public cloud. Customers in the private and public sectors are using OCI Dedicated Region to host applications and data that need strict data residency, control, and security, or to stay in specific locations for low-latency connectivity and data-intensive processing. Dedicated Regions can also be made bigger with Roving Edge Infrastructure, just like Oracle’s public cloud regions.
- Preview of OCI Compute Cloud@Customer: OCI Compute Cloud@Customer is a solution for smaller environments than OCI Dedicated Region. It is a rack-scale solution. Compute Cloud@Customer will let organizations run applications on OCI-compatible compute, storage, and networking in their own data centers. This will be fully managed as a service from an OCI Region, and OCI’s cost-effective consumption model will be used to streamline operations and cut costs. With OCI Dedicated Region, Exadata Cloud@Customer, and Compute Cloud@Customer, organizations can use the same OCI-managed hardware and software in their data centers and OCI Regions. No matter where services are running, developers and IT managers will use the same APIs and management tools to give users a consistent experience. Organizations can make it easier to develop, deploy, secure, and manage a single set of software across a wide range of different cloud environments.
“Customers have told us that they want comprehensive cloud solutions to modernize their infrastructure and meet their security, regulatory, and data residency needs,” said Chris Chelliah, Senior Vice President, Technology and Customer Strategy, Oracle Japan and Asia Pacific. “Oracle’s distributed cloud gives customers the option to have full-featured cloud services delivered seamlessly on-premise, on the public cloud, or a combination of both, with the same experience in all cases.”
OCI’s Distributed Cloud Strategy Brings Services Where Customers Need Them
The OCI Region is operated as a commercial and government public cloud in 38 regions, which can be interconnected with other clouds for multi-cloud architectures, or act as the control plane for hybrid cloud offerings. The OCI Region can also be deployed in the customer data center as a dedicated, single-tenant cloud in a repeatable way. OCI’s deployment options can include the functionality of all 100+ OCI services, or just a subset, with the required location choice, performance, security, compliance, and operational models. Together these deployment options comprise OCI’s distributed cloud.
