Oracle Cloud gaining popularity in SE Asia

An increased number of customers in South East Asia are pivoting to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) thanks to its high performance, built-in security, and better returns on investment.

Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service that provides servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed data centers. The company allows these services to be provisioned on demand over the Internet.

It offers suites of integrated applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud, said a press release.

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 resource 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 it’s 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 Chin Ying Loong, Regional Managing Director, ASEAN & South Asia Growing Economies (SAGE), Oracle. “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.”

Alec Mapalo, divison head, City Tourism and Special Events Office, City of Baguio, said, “With tourist destinations around the world opening up, we look forward to welcoming tourist back. At the same time, we need to protect our 360,000 residents and we do this via the Baguio Visitors Information and Travel Assistance (VISITA) online registration system and mobile application.”