Oracle introduces the new cloud offer Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer Isolated. The product should be available in the course of the year. The provider follows a path that he has already hit with his Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) especially for the public sector, because the new cloud@customer isolated is said to be particularly sovereign. Specifically, this means that the Rechen cloud should be operated separately from the public internet.
Since 2023, Oracle has been focusing on the requirements that organizations outside the United States are in particular on cloud compliance. The EU Souverign Cloud is intended to enable data storage according to the specific EU data protection regulations, the government cloud should-even safer-meet government and criticism requirements.
AWS and Microsoft also offer both in a similar form: Data centers set up in the EU are used as a vehicle for the offer, which according to operator also legally under EU laws and are not under the American cloud act, with which customers must fear the issuing of their data to the US government. To ensure trust, Oracle relies on on-premises offers.
The isolated compute cloud has hardly any connections back to Oracle-only the Oracle developers naturally have to patch the service from time to time. In the worst case, supply chain attacks would still be possible here.
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Now the Compute Cloud joins the offers that are particularly secure. The service is said to trim the data silo on computing processes and Oracle now also spends it as an @Custumer-Isolated version. The skills are the same as at Compute-Cloud@Customer. It can be set up as a single rack in its own data center-Oracle offers a fast start support directly, which should enable the provision within six to eight weeks-and then extend to an isolated region, i.e. an entire on-premises-OCI. However, organizations are not completely independent – they continue to rely on technical updates and the support of Oracle.
Specifically for the military
The offer can be interesting for companies with particularly sensitive workloads, but as a customer group, Oracle has more of the state actors in mind. Especially the defense sector. Accordingly, a first customer is the Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) Singapore, which relates an isolated region for the Ministry of Defense and the Singapure Armed Forces (SAF).
Isolated cloud infrastructure is particularly interesting for the military because it can be built up mission-specific. This can reduce the complexity of the network, for example, in which EDGE data is collected and evaluated. Reducing the complexity of your own infrastructure has such a high priority from a military point of view, because it contains less attacking points and, on the other hand, a better look at tactically relevant information.
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