INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
Interxion and Oracle
offer enterprises an easy
on-ramp to hybrid cloud
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A
s more enterprises look towards
Digital Transformation, IT agility
helps them innovate in the areas of
product development, customer experience
and operations. That’s why more businesses
are exploring new hybrid cloud and
multicloud strategies as a way to make their
networks more flexible.
Interxion and Oracle have announced a
new offering that will make it even easier
for those companies to experiment with
hybrid and multicloud environments.
Enterprises collocating their network and
private IT environments in any of Interxion’s
European data centres will now be able to
access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through
Cloud Connect, Interxion’s interconnection
platform. This access is made possible by
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect,
an Oracle network cloud service that is now
collocated in Interxion’s Frankfurt facility.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure describes
the complete portfolio of Oracle IaaS
solutions. This offering, which comes as
Interxion has been named a member of
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the Oracle PartnerNetwork, creates an ideal
environment for both Interxion and Oracle
customers to extend their on-premises IT
to the hybrid cloud and reap the benefits of
Oracle cloud solutions.
More than half of the enterprise IT
professionals surveyed in a recent report
said they plan to or currently adopt a hybrid
cloud solution. It’s easy to see why: by
mixing on-premises and cloud-based IT,
hybrid cloud allows innovative enterprises
to tap into the agility and cost savings of
the cloud without ceding the performance
benefits of their in-house data centre.
But, some CIOs can still be hesitant about
the cloud, either due to security concerns
related to sending data over the public
Internet, or regulations that require them to
keep data on-premises.
One solution is to take advantage of
private interconnections that connect
on-premises IT and cloud environments
through colocation data centres. Cloud
Connect offers private access between
your environments to multiple hyperscale
cloud providers through a single secure,
reliable connection. As a result, you can build
scalable hybrid and multicloud solutions
in a cost-effective way, while enjoying
predictable performance and low-latency
connections to the cloud.
Like Cloud Connect, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure FastConnect provides a
dedicated, private connection for companies
to connect their networks to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure using a reliable low-latency
network with guaranteed throughput.
Cloud Connect and Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure FastConnect work together
to provide direct access to Oracle Cloud
Solutions. You simply connect to FastConnect
through Cloud Connect. From there,
FastConnect will enable direct access to
Oracle cloud solutions, allowing users to
avoid the public Internet and achieve
consistent performance, dedicated
bandwidth and controlled or reduced
latency. It’s that easy. n
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