During the celebration of the Technology Summit in Madrid, Oracle has announced the launch of what will be its first sovereign cloud for Europe. Although it has been a long time coming, it is expected to be operational starting in the summer and, based on a new cloud region located in Spain and another infrastructure in Germany, it will offer its services to the 27 member countries of the European Union.
The US company now faces the challenge of breaking away from strict regulations Cloud Actimplemented by the administration Trump and that regulates the data management of companies in the country, forcing them to hand them over to the Government regardless of where they are located geographically. In addition, there is a transverse collision with the General Data Protection Regulation (RGDP) that prevails in Europe, which is much stricter.
For Oracle it is essential turn data into innovationgiving importance to decision making, something especially analyzed in his recent study ‘The Decision Dilemma’. It is curious, but 45% of Spanish managers prefer to use artificial intelligence when making business decisions, since 70% acknowledge that this high volume of data and their lack of confidence have prevented them from making an important decision at some point. moment.
Its first sovereign cloud in Europe, will be in line with current European legislation on data and cloud technologies, something that especially affects hyper-regulated companies from the defense, health, banking and public administration sectors.
The adaptation of all companies, regardless of their size, to the digitization. With the introduction of the so-called ‘Internet of clouds’the providers will make it easier for their customers to decide to use specific resources based on their needs and according to the user experience.
Oracle’s sovereign cloud will be in Europe and will be managed by European citizens, with a dedicated and isolated network connectivity from the public cloud, although with the singularity that it can be interconnected with other clouds and with the client’s data center. And it is that the new platform will be physically separated from the cloud region announced last year.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has an architecture that allows deployments in record time through the application of artificial intelligence in all its layersusing for it Oracle Autonomous Database. This is nourished by all the cloud solutions and applications developed by the company in recent years.
For achieve true cloud sovereignty It is essential to apply: access restriction, ability to decide the location of the data, mandatory requirements, operations and support, dedicated connectivity and encryption.
In this line, Albert Triolageneral director of Oracle Spain, has affirmed that the efforts in terms of interoperability and interconnection made between the different hyperscalar platforms in the market are essential to not be closed to any provider and thus maintaining control of all available resources in a unified way.
It must be taken into account that all these advances are possible thanks to the merger of Oracle with vmwarewhich has allowed them to develop the joint solution Oracle Cloud VMware Solution. It makes it easy to provision, deploy, and migrate workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and other clouds like Microsoft Azure.
Your safety and cost
For his part, Oscar BernacerCloud Architect Director at Oracle, is optimistic about the role that Oracle will play in the communications encryption. In this way, security will be guaranteed as customers can use their own keys without the companies or Oracle intervening. In addition, they are aware that the EU will dictate new rules for companies, so with this solution HE anticipate future needs.
Likewise, cloud services in the new sovereign cloud of Oracle they will maintain the same cost as their alternative in the public cloudin such a way that from day one the services will be deployed in the cloud.
The value of artificial intelligence
At the Oracle Technology Summit, the importance of artificial intelligence to innovate faster, but also to build internal business processes with Low-Code/No-Code toolsvery useful for workers.
The combination of data hubs, such as those in Malaga or Barcelona, with artificial intelligence makes it possible to establish a data-centric approach, integrating all sources of business. It is also fixed a AI scale perspectiveusing Machine Learning to predict an optimal audience, and establish a real-time activation that offers optimal actions within the operational digital applications
