Data privacy is now one of the most steadfast, absolute requirements for doing business anywhere in the world, but especially in Europe, with its strict regulatory statutes and strong cultural demand for privacy. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now the model for ensuring data privacy around the globe, and regulations such as the U.K. Data Protection Act and other country-specific compliance mandates also carry substantial weight in how organizations protect all personal and private information in their cloud-resident databases.
With data security challenges proliferating and becoming more complex to detect, prevent and remediate against, regulatory compliance is far from the only manifestation of data privacy and governance. Operational, financial and brand risk also are vital reasons to make data privacy a high priority. This becomes especially important when organizations move to a hybrid cloud approach, keeping some workloads on premises and moving others to the cloud.
Ideally, many organizations would like to deploy and manage their database workloads in a cloud environment for a variety of reasons, such as agility, near-limitless scalability and better cost forecasting. However, many industries have strict security and data sovereignty requirements that prevent organizations from moving key workloads to public cloud data centers.
This is pushing organizations to look for another cloud option, one that combines the benefits of cloud architecture with improved data privacy and data governance for database workloads that are essential to an organization’s day-to-day operations. By adopting a purpose-built database cloud in an on-premises environment, enterprises can meet the requirement of having their databases located on premises but without having to make Capex investments and further burden their in-house IT staff and database administrators.
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Exadata Cloud@Customer offers the world’s highest-performance database infrastructure, providing full database automation and data sovereignty, including Oracle Autonomous Database, within an organization’s data center. It provides a simple way to move crucial Oracle databases to the cloud, offering full compatibility with on-premises Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata installations as well as low-latency connectivity to other data center resources.
Built upon the high-performance compute foundation of Oracle Exadata—based on IntelÒ XeonÒ third-generation processors—Exadata Cloud@Customer allows customers to securely run workloads on premises as a system that is deployed in the customer data center but functions as if it were part of the Oracle Cloud, with the same Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) control plane.
Exadata Cloud@Customer is a natural first step to cloud for organizations that are just beginning their cloud journey and is an excellent choice for those that have data sovereignty or security requirements. It has been adopted by hundreds of customers that need to comply with national and international regulations. Organizations get identical capabilities in the cloud or on premises and can choose to manage the system on premises themselves, use an Oracle-managed cloud service in their data center or deploy in the Oracle Cloud.
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