Oracle has launched the “OCI dedicated Region” for the Indian market to reach the public sector and regulated businesses. This region will allow users to utilize the public cloud while adhering to stringent latency and data sovereignty criteria.
In many IT modernization initiatives, requirements for latency, data residency, and data sovereignty must be met, and the new solution will assist customers in doing so. Additionally, it would enable Oracle to provide customers with about 100 services on-site that were previously only accessible through public cloud users.
What is this “OCI Dedicated Region”?
Public cloud services delivered to customer data centers are expected to increase rapidly. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the local cloud as a service (LCaaS) refers to dedicated cloud service offerings that the service provider owns and administers with the infrastructure placed on the customer’s premises.
Customers can use LCaaS products, like Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, to experience the as-a-service features that public cloud platforms offer, wherever they are. The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Dedicated Region offers the agility, scalability, and affordability of the OCI public cloud inside your data center.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is installed as a managed service and single-tenant cloud in the customer’s on-premise data center as part of the Dedicated Region Cloud. Similar on-premises compute Microsoft, AWS, and Google provide capabilities that may all be controlled by cloud dashboards.
Customers will pay less because of the 60–75% power and space requirements reduction. Due to data sovereignty, security compliance, and latency demands, the idea centers on extending services from the public cloud into clients’ data centers.
Based on a four-year CAGR of 176 percent, IDC projects market revenue of $13B in 2023. Many businesses look forward to grabbing the real benefits of the cloud model while also adhering to strict standards for data sovereignty, security compliance, and low latency.
Additionally, they want the vendor to offer and completely manage cloud services aligned to a pay-as-you-go model without significant upfront CAPEX. However, they do not want the public cloud to hold their private data.
Compared to other vendors, which only offer a narrow subset of services, require upfront configuration commitments, and publicly maintain customer data, Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer is better able to meet these criteria.
What benefits does the OCI Dedicated Region bring?
With the new service, Oracle claims to be able to deliver cloud services right to clients’ homes rather than through its public cloud data centers. Moreover, it will encourage businesses in the public sector, banking, and other industries to utilize the public cloud, something they have previously been unable to do due to regulatory and other limitations.
During the Covid-19 epidemic, public cloud migration in India has increased, but just 20% of all workloads have moved to the cloud. According to a recent prediction by Gartner Inc., end-user spending on public cloud services in India is expected to reach $7.3 billion in 2022, an increase of 29.6% from 2021. The next step in cloud computing is distributed cloud, which gives users more freedom and control over how they deploy cloud resources.
With the OCI Dedicated Region, customers are no longer limited by their choice of location, data residency, data sovereignty, or latency. It will make it easier for businesses that must satisfy certain regulatory criteria to utilize the cloud oracle since consumers can operate IT workloads while maintaining data and service control.
As Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer expands dedicated server hardware, including the bare metal forms for workloads that are only compatible in non-virtualized environments, businesses can execute their workloads without requiring a hypervisor. Cloud-at-Customer enables organizations’ custom and traditional workloads to clock the high-performance levels over their previous setups by removing the overhead for virtualization.
In a nutshell, businesses frequently have a distinctive set of applications, and only by giving them complete control over their environment can a public cloud deployed on-premises fulfill its true potential, in addition to giving businesses the most seamless VMware and bare metal workload migration experience.
Why choose the Oracle Dedicated Region over other clouds?
So why should companies choose Oracle Dedicated Region for their enterprises? Let’s know!
Complete set of cloud services on-premises
Customers of Dedicated regions can use a full range of contemporary IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services to deploy a wide variety of workloads to fulfill their business requirements, and it’s the only solution that provides an integrated cloud experience for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS on-premises.
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Dedicated Region provides the same collection of public cloud services as those found in the public regions. You can leverage OCI’s cloud solutions with Dedicated Region for cloud lift-and-shift scenarios, modernize legacy applications, and more.
High and predictable performance
Because of Cloud@Customer’s next-generation architecture and lack of over subscription in computing, storage & networking, customers’ workloads execute more quickly and predictably on it.
You may experience the advantages of the public cloud while satisfying your governance, regulatory compliance, and data protection need with Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Additionally, all application data adheres to data governance standards and stays on-premises.
Forward perspective
Oracle is dedicated to providing customers with the most affordable cloud solution options supporting their ongoing modernization efforts and business requirements. In addition to improving the platform, data, and application security with Oracle security controls and services, Dedicated Region offers robust physical and perimeter network security.
The same defense-in-depth design is used by Dedicated Region, which offers security controls at every layer of the stack. The Oracle solution can assist businesses in lowering IT administration expenses by lowering capital investment.
As a result, customers may now create and run cutting-edge applications inside their data centers at the same pricing as in Oracle’s public cloud.
