AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today
announced the opening of its Oracle Cloud Singapore Region. The new
Singapore region will support
growing demand for enterprise cloud services in South East Asia and expands Oracle's reach to
33 cloud regions globally; fueling the region's economic recovery
and contributing to its digital economy.
Cloud infrastructure underpins Singapore's drive for innovation and digital
initiatives. To accelerate this, Oracle is offering 100 startups
USD 30,000 each in Oracle Cloud
credits over the next two years. Oracle is also providing free
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) training and certifications until
March 31, 2022. The free training
will help expand Singapore's IT
talent pool and make it easier for businesses to acquire or develop
the skilled professionals they need to grow and innovate
quickly.
"We welcome Oracle's move to accelerate startups in Singapore. These initiatives show the
confidence that the international business community has in
Singapore, as a place where
established businesses can work with a vibrant entrepreneur
community to transform, innovate and grow," said Ms Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director, Singapore
Economic Development Board.
"Customers are pivoting to Oracle because of the high
performance, built-in security, and low cost of OCI. We've
witnessed triple-digit growth in the business last year and want to
help customers innovate and modernize, while helping them address
in-country data residency requirements," said Garrett Ilg, president, Asia Pacific and Japan, Oracle. "With the opening of the new
cloud region and the initiatives to support local innovation and
growth, we are reaffirming our commitment to Singapore and to the region. The availability
of OCI will help improve the speed of innovation, empower startups
and champion upskilling for Singaporeans."
OCI helps customers move their existing complex,
mission-critical workloads and data platforms to the cloud, and
build new cloud native applications, as well as benefit from the
superior performance, lower cost, and built-in security
capabilities. Customers will also have access to the full suite of
Oracle Cloud Applications, as well as Oracle Autonomous Database,
giving them the opportunity and choice to create the architecture
that best suits their business needs.
Leading Organizations Choose Oracle Cloud
Hakan Yaren, CIO, APL
Logistics: "Data is important to us and we are heavily
invested in data management. Customers want and need visibility
into their supply chain at any given point in time, and they need
the data to be timely, high quality, and high accuracy. We have
been hosting our data lake initiative on OCI and the data lake has
helped us consolidate all these complex data points into one source
of truth where we can further analyze it. Now that Oracle is
expanding its cloud region locally, we look forward to further
improving the ecosystem we do business in, especially since
Singapore is one of the key hubs
for APLL."
Tham Jo Yew, Founder and CEO, ESPxMedia: "We have
architected ESPxCloud from the ground-up as a global cloud video
platform to revolutionize new 'phygital' experiences that
seamlessly marry the physical world with the digital world for any
live streaming and on-demand video use-cases. We have experienced a
surge in demand in our business that requires reliable and
price-competitive solutions with a leading cloud service provider.
OCI has been instrumental in helping us scale up and scale out to
meet the elastic needs of our clients. With Oracle Cloud expanding
into Singapore, we expect faster
provisioning of our ESPxCloud services with lower video latency
within this region. This directly translates into improved video
viewing experiences and further differentiates us from the
competition."
Henrietta Yaw, CIO, FUJIFILM
Business Innovation Asia Pacific: "To better engage and create
a positive working experience for our colleagues, especially during
this trying period, we understand the importance of having fluid
and streamlined processes internally. By moving key critical
applications to the cloud and being able to use Oracle Cloud
onshore, it will allow us to do more, enjoy cost savings and
increase the level of cross-collaboration and innovation in the
region. Besides helping our customers to embark on their digital
transformation journey, we want to do the same for our employees as
well."
Ryoji Sekido, Senior Managing
Director, Accenture Technology and Cloud First Lead for Growth
Markets: "Our deep partnership with Oracle has always been one
of Accenture's most strategic and important initiatives to help our
clients leverage the cloud and thrive in a cloud-first world. In
this era of compressed transformation, cloud has proven to be a
powerful tool for organizations to master change – in fact, we have
found that cloud-focused organizations in APAC were able to achieve
1.5 times more cost reduction and were reported to be 3.7 times
more likely to innovate as compared to their competitors. We have
seen the benefits Oracle Cloud Infrastructure brings to our clients
and know that the Oracle Cloud Region in Singapore will further accelerate
organizations' cloud adoption to become agile, intelligent and
digital businesses."
Philip Chua, Founder, Director
and Co-Founder, TOFFS Technologies: "As a cybersecurity
provider, our collaboration with Oracle has extended beyond
engagements with large enterprises to hosting our latest
security-as-a-service solution for small and medium-size
enterprises on OCI. With the launch of Oracle Cloud Singapore
Region and our comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, we are
confident of accelerating our footprint in Asia."
Meeting Demand for Hybrid and Multicloud
Dr.
Glen Duncan, Associate Research
Director – Datacenter, IDC: "Enterprise appetite for
public cloud services continues unabated in Singapore and across the rest of ASEAN. The
dominant data center architecture has become the hybrid multicloud
environment that extends from core to edge. Enterprises are now
demanding cloud services from their partners that are
global/regional/local, sustainable, secure, and high performance
using machine-based intelligence, policies, and automation. Data
and services must also be fully manageable and transparent to
support compliance with increasingly stringent national government
privacy and sovereignty regulations."
Complex workloads require a variety of hybrid and multicloud
deployment choices. Oracle's strategy is to meet customers where
they are, enabling customers to keep data and services where they
need it. Customers can deploy Oracle Cloud completely within their
own data centers with Dedicated Region and Exadata
Cloud@Customer deploy cloud services remotely on the edge with
Roving Edge Infrastructure, or across a multicloud environment
between OCI and Microsoft Azure through a strategic partnership.
This combination gives government and enterprise users a broad, but
consistent set of options to address all workload requirements.
The Singapore region will
benefit customers throughout the ASEAN region with access to an
extensive array of network partners that enable direct and private
connection through OCI FastConnect. FastConnect provides an easy,
elastic, and economical way to create a dedicated private network
connection with higher bandwidth, lower latency, and more
consistent performance versus public Internet-based
connections.
FastConnect is available via a direct connection or through
partners. For Singapore, these
include: Colt Technology Services, Equinix, Megaport and Singtel.
OCI's extensive network of more than 70 FastConnect global and
regional partners offer customers dedicated connectivity to Oracle
Cloud regions and OCI services—providing customers with the best
options anywhere in the world.
High Availability, Disaster Protection
OCI's
next-generation architecture provides a high-performing, resilient
foundation for cloud services, while its physical and virtual
network design maximizes performance and security. For example,
each Oracle Cloud Region contains at least three fault domains,
which are groupings of hardware that form logical data centers for
high availability and resilience to hardware and network failures.
Some regions (Ashburn,
Phoenix, Frankfurt, and London) provide further resilience to entire
data centers through multiple availability domains (ADs), which
each contain three fault domains.
To help customers plan data center deployments to meet
application requirements and optimize their cloud infrastructure,
OCI provides a no cost inter-region latency dashboard that provides
insights into real-time and historical latency for Oracle Cloud
Regions around the globe.
Sustainability
Oracle is committed to
sustainability and has pledged to power all Oracle Cloud
Regions worldwide with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025. All
Oracle Cloud Regions use state-of-the-art energy management and
cooling technologies to minimize their impact on the environment.
As part of its renewable energy clean Cloud initiative, Oracle
reused or recycled 99.6 percent of its retired hardware in
FY'21 while strictly adhering to Oracle's data privacy and
security practices.
Oracle Cloud's Expanding Global Footprint
As part of
Oracle's planned expansion of its cloud region footprint to support
strong customer demand for Oracle Cloud services
worldwide, over the next year, Oracle will open additional cloud
regions with new locations across Europe, the Middle
East, Asia Pacific, and
Latin America.
Upcoming cloud regions include Milan (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden), Spain, Johannesburg (South
Africa), Mexico, and
Colombia. Additional second
regions will open in Saudi Arabia,
France, Israel and Chile. Oracle plans to have at least 44 cloud
regions by the end of 2022, continuing one of the fastest
expansions of any major cloud provider.
Currently available Oracle Cloud regions:
- Asia Pacific:
Tokyo (Japan), Osaka
(Japan), Seoul (South
Korea), Chuncheon (South
Korea), Mumbai
(India), Hyderabad (India), Sydney (Australia), Melbourne (Australia), Singapore (Singapore)
- Americas: San Jose
(United States), Phoenix (United
States), Ashburn
(United States), Toronto (Canada), Montreal (Canada), São Paolo
(Brazil), Vinhedo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile)
- Europe: Frankfurt (Germany), London (United
Kingdom), Newport, Wales (United
Kingdom), Zürich (Switzerland), Amsterdam (The
Netherlands), Marseille
(France)
- Middle East:
Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Abu
Dhabi and Dubai (U.A.E),
Jerusalem (Israel)
- Government: Two general U.S. Government regions, and
U.S. National Security regions, three U.S. Department of Defense
specific Government regions, two in the United Kingdom (London and Newport,
Wales)
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