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Database giant Oracle India was late to enter the cloud, but is making up with an aggressive strategy of product range and end-to-end solutions.
Shailender Kumar, Managing Director, Oracle India, said the company has transformed itself in the last few years and is focussing on growing its cloud network.
Oracle launched cloud services in 2012, later than its peers Amazon Web Services in 2006 and Microsoft Azure in 2010. Though a late entrant, the company is catching up by offering new products and initiatives such as autonomous cloud, data centres and increased focus on smaller businesses.
Oracle recently launched a cloud platform with autonomous services, claiming it to be the first-of-its-kind solution. After the initial configuration, there is no need for human intervention. It is self-driving, has intelligent cyber threat detection and remediation mechanism and self-repairing capabilities.
With its autonomous transaction processing capabilities, which eliminates the need for either tuning or maintenance of critical data, it results in significant cost savings, reduced risk and accuracy.
“In India, we already have 50 consumers who are using the product. We expect the number to grow in the coming months,” Kumar said.
Oracle announced that a data centre is in the offing to cater to the huge consumer demand in the country. Cloud-users have grown to 15,000 in the country. “Data centre is a work in progress and is expected to launch within a year,” Kumar said.
Oracle Digital Prime (ODP) was launched last year in India with a focus on selling Oracle cloud technologies and services to small and medium businesses including start-ups. According to Kumar, “There are 51 million small and medium businesses in the country and it presents a huge opportunity.” “There are currently 300 people working in ODP. As the customer base expands, we will expand the team as well,” Kumar added.
Oracle India announced a new facility in Bengaluru at an investment of $400 million to consolidate the workforce in India. Of the 1.5 lakh Oracle employees, 40,000 are from India. Kumar said the facility, the second largest for Oracle outside San Francisco, will be operational by 2019. It can accommodate 10,000.
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