Oracle Cloud gains momentum in Southeast Asia

• Need to accelerate digital transformation drives customers across the region to turn to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to free up resources, execute faster and stay competitive

Facing the risk of digital sameness, more customers across the region are pivoting to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) because of the high performance, built-in security, and better returns on investment. Increasingly, customers are realising not only the immediate benefits of being on the cloud, but also how the cloud can better position the business competitively in the long-term – freeing time and resources spent on maintenance and allowing organisations to innovate. 

To meet this demand for cloud services, Oracle recently expanded its footprint with the opening of the Oracle Cloud Singapore Region. Since its opening, close to 100 customers across the region have selected to host their workloads on OCI, including City Government of Baguio, FUJIFILM Business Innovation Asia Pacific, and iFoundries. 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) helps enable customers to move their existing complex, mission-critical workloads and data platforms to the cloud, and build new cloud native applications, as well as potentially benefitting from its superior performance, possible lower cost, and built-in security capabilities. Customers will also have access to the full suite of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, as well as Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware solution, giving them the choice to create the architecture that best suits their business needs.

“We have witnessed tremendous growth in the business last year,” said Oracle ASEAN & South Asia Growing Economies (SAGE) Regional Managing Director Chin Ying Loong. “As customers continue to innovate and modernise on Oracle Cloud, they are realising that not all clouds are the same. Customers recognise that we provide an easy and fast alternative for migrating their enterprise applications.”

Alongside the rising demand for Oracle Cloud, OCI is demonstrating strong growth with the introduction of hundreds of services and features over the past year. In the last quarter, OCI has committed to easing the path to multicloud, eliminating data transfer fees by joining forces with Cloudflare; reaffirmed its commitment to the open-source database market with the addition of HeatWave with MySQL Autopilot in OCI; and made it easier for developers to apply AI to their applications without requiring data science expertise by adding a new collection of AI Services for OCI. 

Additionally, Oracle is delivering on its strategy to meet customers where they are by enabling them to keep data and services where they need it through the ability to deploy Oracle Cloud completely within their own data centres with Dedicated Region and Exadata Cloud@Customer. 

Leading organisations across the region, including AIA Malaysia and Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, are continuing to rely on Exadata Cloud@Customer to run their businesses and help adapt to unpredictable business environments. They selected Oracle Exadata Database Machine, the world’s fastest database platform, to run business-critical workloads, including core banking systems and IT infrastructure. This is due to the platform’s ability to help customers quickly get more value from their data, while meeting the requirements for strict data sovereignty and security. The Bangladesh Data Center Company Ltd. (BDCCL), the Bangladesh government-owned data storage and disaster recovery services provider, has selected Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to provide sovereign-hosted cloud services to the Bangladesh government.  The Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer can enable BDCCL to run its entire IT portfolio on cloud infrastructure and have physical control of infrastructure and data, ensuring that government users meet the most demanding data sovereignty requirements. 

IDC’s Asia Pacific Cloud Services and Technology Group Vice President Chris Morris said: 

“A major benefit of digital transformation is the ability to maximise the value of enterprise data. However, companies still have data resident on many locations and on differing platforms – making it difficult to securely access and reducing its business value. 

To mitigate this, businesses need to realise that the cloud has become an environment of multiple clouds, each of which is optimised for a workload. This is the multicloud environment to which digital infrastructure is transforming. As such, enterprises need to look for the most appropriate platforms for workloads as they seek to modernise their business services, optimise costs, as well as meeting compliance requirements by using the right deployment model. Increasingly, this means that rather than talking about public, private and hybrid, selection criteria are more about workloads needing dedicated or shared environments so that they can fully support increasingly stringent national government privacy and sovereignty regulations.”