The Indian CEOs and CTOs are clear on one thing: It's from my data that I'm going to learn my customers' behaviour, understand my product better, receive new insights and innovate on top of those.
"Every organization is a data organization today; it's all about the information and how to analyse it, parse it and create AI-based Cloud models that help the organization grow. We have now fulfilled the most challenging demand coming from the Indian businesses: If the data doesn't stay on-premise, let it stay within the country," Andrew Sutherland, SVP-Technology, Oracle EMEA and JAPAC, told .
For Sutherland, it is big leap for Oracle at a time when not only companies but the governments too recognize the value of information and how data is core to the success of any firm across verticals.
"We're becoming increasingly conscious that there are strong data jurisdictions and we need to respond to that in a sensible way. By putting Gen 2 Cloud data centre here in India, we hope that we will meet those requirements," the executive noted.
Over 100 enterprise customers in the country have already moved their workloads onto the Gen 2 Cloud data center in Mumbai, which is being run solely by Oracle without any third-party involvement.
The Cloud major has plans to open another Gen 2 Cloud data centre in Hyderabad next year.
Customers and partners in India can now harness the power of Oracle Cloud and leading services like Autonomous Database to unlock innovation and drive business growth.
The Gen 2 enterprise cloud supports all legacy workloads while delivering modern cloud development tools, so enterprises in India can bring forward their past as they build their future.
According to Sutherland, to help enterprises achieve greater insights and deliver better customer experiences, we need to have a whole new Cloud architecture that is built around cost, scalability, agility and self-repairing capabilities.
"In the new Oracle Cloud infrastructure (OCI), the multi-layered security provides a different security architecture with incorporating intelligence into it. We're asking data to look after itself with autonomous database in this infrastructure. That's what we are confident it will help unlock the modern Cloud era for enterprises," he elaborated.
Not just big enterprises, Sutherland is confident the new Oracle Cloud will help small and medium businesses (SMBs) shun the legacy infrastructure and begin their Cloud journey.
"There's hunger and desire to move onto the Cloud among SMBs in India. I don't think there's any cultural resistance in any way. There is boldness in their approach. The next step is where to take the first bite to eat and for that, we are here to help," said the Oracle executive.
(Nishant Arora can be reached at nishant.a@.in)
( With inputs from IANS )