AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle has
expanded its hybrid cloud portfolio with Oracle Roving Edge
Infrastructure, a new offering that brings core infrastructure
services to the edge with Roving Edge Devices (REDs) – ruggedized,
portable, scalable server nodes. Using Oracle Roving Edge
Infrastructure, organizations can run cloud workloads wherever they
need them, even in the world's most remote locations. Whether it is
in the back of a plane, a polar observatory, or an oil tanker in
the mid-Atlantic, the power of Oracle Cloud is always accessible
with Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure.
The new service is part of Oracle's comprehensive hybrid cloud
portfolio, which provides customers with more flexibility and
control over their cloud deployments than other
vendors. Global customers across financial services, public
sector, healthcare, logistics, and communications industries are
using Oracle's hybrid cloud solutions to support their cloud
transformations without the trade-offs in scale, data sovereignty,
and control that they have had to make in the past.
"Customers want choice when it comes to running workloads in the
cloud. Each customer has different requirements based on data
sovereignty, scale, or wanting the full experience of a public
cloud on-premises with all of Oracle's cloud services. Oracle
Roving Edge Infrastructure is the latest example, delivering core
infrastructure services to remote locations," said Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president, Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle's hybrid cloud portfolio essentially
delivers a cloud region wherever and however a customer needs
it."
Only Oracle offers a comprehensive cloud portfolio that meets
customers where they are in their cloud transformation. In addition
to its public cloud offerings, which include 29 Oracle Cloud
regions, Oracle Government Cloud, and six global Oracle-Microsoft
Azure Interconnect regions, Oracle offers the most complete support
for hybrid cloud strategies. Services include Oracle Dedicated
Region Cloud@Customer, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, Oracle VMware
Cloud Solution, and now Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure.
Together, these solutions provide customers with flexibility of
location and a high degree of customer control so customers can run
an identical set of Oracle Cloud services in their datacenters, run
core cloud services entirely disconnected from the internet,
and minimize dependencies on the public cloud.
"With Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure, Oracle yet again
broadens its hybrid cloud portfolio by giving customers a taste
of its public cloud wherever they may need it," said
Sriram Subramanian, Research
Director, IDC. "Oracle designed its cloud infrastructure portfolio
to make it as easy as possible for customers to move workloads to
the cloud. Oracle Roving Edge, along with other offerings of
the Oracle Cloud portfolio, gives customers multiple deployment and
control options to run their most important workloads."
Oracle's Comprehensive Hybrid Cloud Portfolio
Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure Accelerates Cloud Workloads
Outside the Bounds of Data Centers
Oracle Roving
Edge Infrastructure delivers core infrastructure services, platform
software, enterprise grade security, and applications to the
edge and disconnected locations with Roving Edge Devices,
ruggedized, portable, scalable server nodes. It enables customers
to operate cloud applications and workloads in the field, including
machine learning inference, real-time data integration and
replication, augmented analytics, and query-intensive data
warehouses. In addition, it delivers cloud computing and storage
services at the edge of networks for government and enterprise
organizations, enabling low-latency processing closer to the point
of data generation and ingestion, which provides timely insights
into data.
Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure is a fully mobile,
connection-independent extension of customers' Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy with a similar interface and workflow
to provide a consistent, unified experience. An Oracle RED
device is equipped with high-performance hardware including 40
OCPUs, an NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU, 512 GB RAM, and 61 TB of
storage, and can be clustered into groups of 5 to 15 nodes in a
single cluster, starting at $160 per
node per day.
Oracle Dedicated Region Provides All Capabilities of a Public
Cloud Region Delivered On-Premises
Oracle Dedicated Region
Cloud@Customer is the industry's first fully-managed cloud
region that brings all of Oracle's second-generation cloud
services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud
applications, to customer datacenters and starts at only
$500K a month. Enterprises get
the exact same complete set of modern cloud services, APIs,
industry-leading SLAs, superior price-performance, and highest
levels of security available from Oracle's public cloud regions in
their own datacenters. It is ideal for highly regulated or
security-focused businesses needing to meet demanding latency and
data residency requirements, reduce operational costs, and
modernize legacy applications. Since its introduction, 12 new
services have been added to the Dedicated Region portfolio,
including Autonomous JSON Database, MySQL with Heatwave, and
Logging Analytics.
Australian Data Centres (ADC) is the latest organization to
turn to Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to provide sovereign
managed cloud services to the Australian Federal Government and
other entities in the Australian Capital Territory. The Australian
Government wants to dramatically expand its cloud-based
capabilities, and ADC is committed to supporting that growth with
the proper platform.
"We are committed to building capacity to provide services to
the government by Australian providers to assure both the security
and reliability of the supply chain," said Rob Kelly, Managing Director, Australian Data
Centres. "This is a major step toward enabling more choice for
government to access world-leading cloud services, powered and
protected by a 100 percent Australian sovereign company, focused on
connectivity, security, and simplified deployment. Critically, it
addresses data sovereignty, security, and performance attributes
required to accelerate Government's shift to the cloud
services."
Another example of an organization using Oracle Dedicated Region
Cloud@Customer is Nomura Research Institute (NRI), Ltd., the
largest consulting firm and IT solutions provider in
Japan.
"We have finished deploying Oracle Dedicated Region
Cloud@Customer in our data center, and will next migrate our SaaS
applications for the financial industry from on-premises to Oracle
Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. With Oracle Dedicated Region
Cloud@Customer, we've been able to achieve the same level or even
better performance than our existing on-premises system while
continuing to maintain the high level of availability we need,"
said Tomoshiro Takemoto, Senior Corporate Managing Director, NRI.
"We look forward to launching our services to customers, as well as
our ongoing relationship with Oracle to operate and maintain this
Dedicated Region and continuing to drive our digital transformation
together."
Oracle's Unique Approach to VMware
Customers also
want flexibility of location and control for their VMware
workloads. Oracle's unique approach to VMware enables customers to
maintain a high level of control while increasing their scalability
and lowering costs.
The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) provides a
dedicated, cloud-native VMware-based environment that enables
enterprises to quickly and easily move their production VMware
workloads to OCI using familiar VMware tools. The solution provides
customers with the identical experience in the cloud as in
on-premises data centers and seamlessly integrates with Oracle's
second-generation cloud infrastructure, including Dedicated Region
Cloud@Customer deployments. With OCVS, customers have complete
access and control of their VMware environment, including root
access, so they fully control the cluster, manage it, and even
choose when, or whether, to upgrade elements of the stack. It
provides the performance, control, and familiarity of an
on-premises VMware cluster, while automating the provisioning and
scaling of the infrastructure. Since its introduction, OCVS has
expanded scaling to a 64-node cluster (3,328 cores, 49 TB of RAM,
and 3.2 PB of NVMe SSD) and offers preview support of VMware 7 with
Tanzu.
Today, Oracle also announced that its OCVS has obtained
Authority to Operate (ATO) at the High impact level from the
FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board. With this
accreditation, US government customers can now operate VMware
Software Defined Data Centers in Oracle Cloud to manage and run
critical applications and workloads. This accreditation gives
government customers the flexibility to build and manage VMware
environments in Oracle Cloud, with the peace-of-mind of
industry-leading security.
Altair, a global technology
company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of
simulation, HPC, and AI, has leveraged OCVS to add capacity and
improve connectivity for the development environments used to build
its high-performance computing and design tools.
"Oracle Cloud VMware Solution allowed us to quickly increase our
capacity, implement hybrid and cloud-first architectures with
complex connectivity, and offer low-latency connectivity to end
users and other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services," said
Jeff Marraccini, Senior Vice
President, IT Strategy and Technology, Altair. "Since it gives full access to NSX and
other components of the VMware platform, we were able to implement
rapidly, and we continue to use our existing disaster recovery and
other VMware-compatible tools."
Rumo Malha Norte S.A., a subsidiary of Brazilian transport and
railway leader Rumo S.A., has migrated its core logistics and
business applications from its on-premises VMware environment to
OCVS as part of its initiative to move to the cloud. The
migrated workloads include Oracle Database, Oracle SOA Suite,
Oracle WebLogic Server, and Microsoft SQL Server.
"We were able to rapidly migrate mission-critical applications
from our data centers to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution with no
changes to applications, databases, and middleware," said
Christofer Faccin, IT Manager, Rumo
Malha Norte. "Higher performance, stability, management and access
have resulted in IT productivity and business agility with lower
costs than alternative solutions."
About Oracle
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applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at oracle.com.
Additional Resources
- Watch Oracle Live with Clay
Magouyrk
- Get an in-depth look at Oracle's hybrid
cloud offerings
- Read the Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure blog
- Read the First Principles: L2 Network Virtualization for
Lift and Shift blog
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