Oracle aims leadership in cloud platform
Steve Daheb, senior vice president of Oracle, speaks at a press conference at the Grand Intercontinental Seoul Parnas in southern Seoul, Tuesday. / Courtesy of Oracle
By Lee Min-hyung
Oracle said Tuesday it will strengthen value-oriented cloud services to accelerate its Korean market penetration, rather than launch a cloud data center.
“It is an outdated idea that cloud service operators should launch a data center in specific regions to better serve customers there,” said Pyun Chong-hwan, sales vice president at Oracle Korea, during a press conference in southern Seoul, on the sidelines of the Oracle CloudWorld Seoul event here.
The remark came as public cloud service operator Amazon Web Service (AWS) has started operation for its data center, “Seoul Region,” this month.
“We are also considering launching the data center, but we think increasing the value for integrated cloud services is more important than launching a physical center,” said the Oracle executive.
During the press conference, the company said it is seeking to lead the nation’s cloud market by taking advantage of its core competitiveness as an integrated cloud platform provider, ranging from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) to Software as a Service (SaaS).
Steve Daheb, senior vice president at Oracle, said, “Customers are interested in economics and provisioning.” He said Oracle cloud services offer 60 percent cost reduction for business operators, through which they can create resources that they can put back into their company in different ways.
He said the Oracle cloud service supports some 33 billion transactions for more than 70 million customers each day. This is made possible by 19 Oracle data centers across the world, which run on 54,000 devices and 700 petabytes of storage.
In particular, the Oracle executive stressed that the company provides optimum cloud platforms to be used both for its public and private clouds and other companies’ cloud services.
“The key is our ability to not only migrate Oracle workloads, but also to support multiple operating systems (OS) and other forms of platforms,” he said.
The company also explained why it chose Korea as its first destination for the CloudWorld global event series this year.
“The quarterly growth rate is a very important indicator to determine potential of certain markets,” said Pyun. “Korea ranks very high in terms of the growth, though we cannot unveil specific numbers for the improvement. Korea is definitely one of the most important markets in Asia for us.”
Meanwhile, more than 30 speakers participated in the cloud event, with more than 3,000 people including information technology (IT) developers and experts joining the global event.