Oracle unveils service to simplify cloud adoption in India

In a bid to cater to the needs of organisations that seek independence and security while transitioning to the cloud to reap its potential benefits global software major Oracle on Wednesday launched a service in India to bring its public cloud in customers data centresLaunched ahead of Oracle CloudWorld Mumbai the new suit of offerings is called Oracle Cloud and involves a server managed and maintained by Oracle It runs onpremises in the customers data centre and behind the firewall of the client allowing the chief information officers to easily move business critical applications to cloudWhile organisations in India are eager to move their enterprise workloads to the public cloud many have been constrained by business legislative and regulatory requirements Shawn Price Oracles senior vice president of cloud said in a statementWith todays launch Oracle addresses these challenges so that organisations across industries can reap the performance cost and innovation benefits of Oracle Public Cloud and run it wherever they want in Oracle Cloud or their own data centre he addedCustomers can pick and choose the services they want such as disaster recovery elastic bursting or any other infrastructure services along with data management application development enterprise integration and managementCompanies in India especially those bound by regulatory pressures can now leverage the cloud and speed up their business transformation Oracle Cloud at Customer supports complete control over data while facilitating data sovereignty and data residency requirements Shailender Kumar managing director Oracle India notedWith this offering the company hopes to bolster its cloud presence throughout India within a variety of business segmentsAdditionally customers can enable workload portability between onpremises and cloud using identical environments toolsets and APIs application programming interfaces Apart from that the customers can easily move Oracle and nonOracle workloads between onpremises and the cloud based on their changing business requirementsKumar noted that many customers including Fiat Automobiles HiTech Textile Automation IndusInd Bank LampT Finance Safexpress Pvt Ltd Sun Edison Schneider Electric and Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd have been purchasing more than one Oracle Cloud service and renewing at high ratesMeanwhile talking to the journalists here Price mentioned about the companys 400million investment in the technology hub BengaluruLauding the initiatives such as Digital India and Startup India he said India is a potential frontrunner in cloud services in near future and this is the best time to invest in the country as it has the highest percentage of youth under the age of 30Price also emphasised on the significance of cloud in making Internet of Things IoT a successAlthough cloudbased applications are the key to using leveraged data to make IoT work the risk of exposure to vulnerabilities during the data transfer and data storage increases on cloudWe have big IoT framework tools technologies and capabilities to extend the public cloud applications that companies own and bring the disruption of conventional architecture practices and minimise vulnerability Price told IANSPrice also talked about the Oracle public cloud machine Exadata X6 that made this new service possibleKeeping in mind the demand in the market we created a hardware platform for those customers who wish to continue to work on a public cloud and reap its benefits like not paying for upgrades and reach maximum target audience Price told IANSHe added that this service works behind the companies firewall With this the customer can offer cloudlike subscriptions database and infrastructure It fulfils the need of customers of running a managed public cloudPrice also confirmed that the machine is fitted with Oracles stateoftheart SPARC M7 microprocessor the worlds first siliconbased memory intrusion detection and a highspeed encryption chip offers data security and memory protection without performance degradation and is costeffectiveOracle introduced 32core 256thread SPARC M7 chip at the OpenWorld 2015 conference in San Francisco in October last yearGlobally Oracle Cloud has shown strong adoption supporting 70plus million users and more than 34 billion transactions each day It runs in 19 data centres around the world