Oracle plans to open a second cloud region in Singapore to meet the rapidly growing demand for its cloud services in Southeast Asia. The new region is one of the 10 planned public regions to join the 41 regions that the company currently operates.
Oracle currently has nine cloud regions Asia Pacific located in Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Chuncheon (South Korea), Mumbai, Hyderabad, Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore.
The region will offer Oracle’s public and private sector customers and partners a new option to locate their infrastructure, applications, and data for optimal performance and latency.
“With the new region, Oracle offers customers true business continuity and disaster protection while meeting in-country data residency requirements."
Garrett Ilg, president, Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle
“As a result, we’re extending our commitment to helping organisations in South East Asia embrace technologies like AI, machine learning, and IoT to address their most complex challenges and achieve more with less," he added.
Companies will have access to a wide range of cloud services to modernise their applications; innovate with data, analytics, and AI; and migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centres to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
The new Oracle Cloud Singapore Region will offer over 100 OCI services and applications, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave Database Service, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution.
These applications and services will help startups and medium-sized and large organizations across financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail in South East Asia harness data to help uncover new business value and optimise applications, typically without requiring costly re-architecture.
Anticipating digital economic growth in SEA
IDC predicts that the overall public cloud services market in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) will grow at a 23.5% CAGR to reach US$153.6 billion in 2026 from US$53.4 billion in 2021.
In Southeast Asia, IDC says digital will rule in 2023 as one in three companies will generate more than 15% of their revenue from digital products and services, compared to one in six in 2020.
The strong focus on increasing revenue from digital products and services will contribute towards cloud technology playing an even more integral role in business continuity and resiliency for companies in the sub-region.
“Despite economic uncertainties, cloud spending by South East Asia organisations remains strong as cloud adoption continues to be seen as a business differentiator to meet the challenges of the post-pandemic future."
Estelle Quek, senior research manager, Cloud Buyer Trends and Intentions Research, IDC
The first Oracle Cloud Singapore Region has supported the innovation needs of more than 1,000 customers in Southeast Asia, including Pacific International Lines and Siam Makro. Oracle customers and partners in SEA welcome planned second cloud region in Singapore.
“The upcoming second Oracle cloud region in Singapore is timely for Siam Makro as we are expanding across the South East Asia region. We’ll soon be able to scale up on our cloud-based technology as well as consolidate our cloud needs holistically, allowing us to operate more efficiently,” said Paul Stephen Howe, group chief information technology officer of Siam Makro.
“Singapore Pools had a good experience with the first cloud region. With the launch of the second region, this strengthens our confidence for maximum high availability for our cloud services,” said Yeo Teck Guan, chief business technology officer of Singapore Pools.
Richard James, managing director of enterprise application services, APMEA, DXC Technology said Oracle’s second cloud region in Singapore will offer “endless possibilities” for system integrators and independent software vendors to scale their operations and achieve greater performance.”
“With Oracle's advanced technologies and our expertise in delivering mission-critical IT services, we are poised to help our customers and advisors navigate the complexities of the digital landscape and optimise their digital journey,” said James.
Global IT services provider DXC Technology recently achieved the Oracle Cloud Solutions Provider Expertise (CSPE) accreditation for the 5th consecutive year.