Oracle has reported what is adequately a third cloud region in Australia, signing a deal with Australian Data Centers (ADC) to offer what it’s calling an “Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer”.
The organization as of now flaunts two cloud regions in Australia, with Sydney going live in late 2019, followed by Melbourne in mid-2020.
ADC assembled its facilities in advance as per government storage necessities, which permits Oracle to offer services from within ADC, acquiring the characteristics effectively set up and hence agreeing with Australian government prerequisites, for example, data sovereignty, given Oracle is a US-headquartered organization.
Microsoft took a comparable action back in August 2017 with Canberra Data Centers, before it controversially made its way onto the Australian Signals Directorate’s (ASD) Certified Cloud Services List (CCSL) to offer protected-level services to government. The CCSL has since been shuttered.
While Oracle never got the tick from the ASD to give cloud services to government, the organization is sure its ADC deal will see it give sovereign hosted cloud services to the Australian government.
“Hosted within Australian Data Centres’ state-of-the-art secure data centre facility in Canberra, the Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer will extend Oracle’s already broad services to government, particularly across secure workloads in national security, health, human services, and other departments and agencies dealing with the sensitive data of Australia and Australians,” Oracle said on Wednesday.
ADC managing director Rob Kelly explained the expansion of Oracle would give more choice to government clients.
Oracle in November signed a whole-of-government services agreement with the Digital Transformation Agency that is focused at making it simpler for government agencies to buy Oracle products and services.
Under the plan, organizations approach Oracle’s entire hardware, software, cloud and services offerings, including applications for sales, service, marketing, human resources, finance, supply chain, and manufacturing, in addition to its cloud infrastructure.
It’s likewise had various components in its Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications suite assessed by an Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessor against the government’s Information Security Manual (ISM) protected controls. IRAP evaluation is a totally independent function of government, notwithstanding.
