Oracle opens cloud data center in Seoul
Tom Song, a regional managing director of Oracle Korea, speaks during a media conference at InterContinental Seoul COEX, Wednesday. / Courtesy of Oracle Korea
By Jun Ji-hye
Oracle has opened a cloud data center in Seoul in a bid to meet growing global demand for cloud computing services, the Korean unit of the U.S.-based IT firm said Wednesday.
The company said the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Seoul Region (OCI Seoul Region), which began its operation in May, is the second-generation cloud data center offering upgraded services including various autonomous functions, compared to the first generation cloud computing services that have been offered by companies like AWS and Microsoft.
Tom Song, a regional managing director of Oracle Korea, said during a media conference held in Seoul that the company plans to open 19 additional data centers around the world including in Mumbai and Sydney by the end of the year. The firm also plans to open a second data center in Korea within a year.
“Enterprises in Korea have long trusted Oracle to manage their mission critical business data, and we have had significant customer demand for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Oracle Autonomous Database,” Song said.
“The availability of the Seoul Region will provide our customers with the most consistent high performance and service levels and low, predictable pricing. We are meeting the needs of Korean organizations as they move enterprise and data-intensive applications to the cloud and look to innovate within their organizations.”
The firm said the second-generation cloud service has been specifically designed to meet the needs of corporate customers, offering artificial intelligence-based applications, machine learning-integrated security and automated analytics.
The service also offers the Oracle Autonomous Database, the industry's first self-driving database that automatically encrypts data, backs itself up, upgrades itself and automatically patches itself when a security threat is detected.
Song said 80 percent of security-related incidents occurred because security patches were not applied on time.
“The self-securing feature of the autonomous database would be able to prevent those incidents,” Song said.
Oracle Korea said more than 100 Korean corporate clients have already completed, or plan to carry out, their cloud migration through the OCI Seoul Region.
The customers include KEB Hana Bank, SK Stoa, Samsung Genome Institute and T'way Air, it noted.