Oracle strengthens footprint in Asean, Japan
TO meet the rapidly growing demand for its cloud services in Southeast Asia, US-based tech giant Oracle recently announced plans to open a second cloud region in Singapore.
This move continues one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider. The new region is one of 10 planned public regions to join the 41 regions that Oracle currently operates.
“Our upcoming second cloud region in Singapore will help meet the tremendous upsurge in demand for cloud services in Southeast Asia,” said Garrett Ilg, president, Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle.
“With the new region, Oracle offers customers true business continuity and disaster protection while meeting in-country data residency requirements. As a result, we’re extending our commitment to helping organizations in Southeast Asia embrace technologies like AI, machine learning, and IoT to address their most complex challenges and achieve more with less.”
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The region will offer Oracle’s public and private sector customers and partners a new option to locate their infrastructure, applications and data for optimal performance and latency.
Customers will have access to a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications; innovate with data, analytics, and AI; and migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
In addition, customers will be able to achieve greater business continuity by using both Oracle Cloud Singapore Regions together while retaining data residency within Singapore.
The new Oracle Cloud Singapore Region will offer over 100 OCI services and applications, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave Database Service, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.
These applications and services will help startups and medium-sized and large organizations across financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, health care and retail in the region.
Cloud, AI investments in Japan
In addition, Oracle Corp. Japan also announced that it plans to invest more than $8 billion over the next 10 years to meet the growing demand for cloud computing and AI infrastructure in Japan. The investment will grow Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) footprint across Japan.
In addition, to help customers and partners address the digital sovereignty requirements in Japan, Oracle will significantly expand its operations and support engineering teams with Japan-based personnel.
“We are dedicated to meeting our customers and partners where they are in their cloud journey,” said Toshimitsu Misawa, member of the board, corporate executive officer and president, Oracle Corp. Japan. “By growing our cloud footprint and providing a team to support sovereign operations in Japan, we are giving our customers and partners the opportunity to innovate with AI and other cloud services while supporting their regulatory and sovereignty requirements.”
The tech company plans to increase local customer support of its public cloud regions in Tokyo and Osaka and its local operations teams for Oracle Alloy and OCI Dedicated Region.
This, according to the company, will enable governments and businesses across Japan to “continue to move their mission-critical workloads to the Oracle Cloud and embrace sovereign AI solutions.”
Oracle sovereign cloud and AI services can be delivered securely within a country’s borders or an organization’s premises with a range of operational controls. The database tech giant is the only hyperscaler “capable of delivering AI and a full suite of 100+ cloud services locally, anywhere.”