Oracle Corporation
10/10/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/10/2024 15:26
Oracle recognized as a Leader for a second year in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
Gartner has released the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure, the second year for this report, and once again, Oracle is positioned in the Leaders' quadrant.
We've built Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with a unique approach to distributed cloud. We believe that Gartner's recognition of Oracle for a second year in this area is a strong validation of our strategy and the value we bring our customers. Organizations who have requirements for compliance, sovereignty, and location that are not easily satisfied by traditional models of public cloud can leverage OCI's distributed cloud to deploy cloud services in the locations and the operational control that they need.
2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
A consistent distributed platform that scales from very small to very large
"We have a fundamentally different vision of the way cloud works," said Clay Magouyrk at CloudWorld 2024. "Our competitors believe there's going to be relatively few clouds and they're going to be very large. Our perspective is different. We believe there's going to be a lot of clouds, and they're going to be of varying sizes, from very, very small to very, very big."
The building block of OCI's distributed cloud is the Oracle Cloud Region. Our cloud regions have been engineered so that they can be deployed in a wide range of models for different use cases and different customers. At our recent CloudWorld event, we demonstrated how we're delivering on our distributed cloud vision at large and scales: We announced the largest high-performance GPU cluster in cloud and the smallest full-cloud infrastructure footprint, both deployed using the same fully featured OCI region model. We've also engineered our cloud so that we can deploy our infrastructure inside the data centers of our cloud partners, and at CloudWorld we announced more details on how we are delivering the same Oracle cloud services to users of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud.
With our cloud regions as a common building block, we can offer a consistent platform across all these deployment models. We offer more than 150 of the same cloud services and cloud applications, including our high-performing AI Infrastructure, with the same experience and the same pricing, in all these different ways our customers are using OCI's distributed cloud. So, you can run all your workloads in these deployment types without compromises. The consistent management and APIs greatly simplifies operations if you're using multiple deployment types, and the consistent global pricing simplifies procurement and budgeting.
A consistent, first-class database experience across clouds
We continue to deliver on our vision of an open distributed cloud, where organizations can use and combine the services they need across clouds without barriers. Customers with enterprise-grade requirements needing Oracle's database services, such as Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database, can now use these services inside the cloud regions of our partners, with a unified experience and simplified purchasing process in each cloud. Customers with wider needs can use our high-performance Interconnect services to use and combine the services they need between clouds.
At Cloudworld, AWS CEO Matt Garman joined Larry Ellison to announce the launch of Oracle Database@AWS. We also announced the availability of the first regions with Oracle Database@Google Cloud and continued momentum and expansion of Oracle Database@Azure.
High-performing AI deployed locally with more control
The consistency that underpins our platform extends to our AI capabilities. We enable you to innovate with AI across our distributed cloud solutions. You can build and maintain sovereign AI models or retain AI-related data with strong data residency controls by using OCI's AI capabilities in our government, sovereign, and dedicated cloud. You can manage mission-critical data and run domain-specific large language models (LLMs), computer vision, or other AI models at the edge, even in remote or disconnected locations, with our hybrid infrastructure offerings. Customers are also utilizing OCI's AI capabilities in our public cloud with data and models resident within specific countries. We recently announced orderability of the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud: An OCI Supercluster available with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, delivering an unprecedented 2.4 zettaFLOPS of peak performance.
Extending cloud services to the edge
Customers can extend OCI's distributed cloud to the edge with Exadata Cloud@Customer, Compute Cloud@Customer, and Roving Edge Infrastructure. OCI's edge services scale from an 8-OCPU single node up to 6,600 cores on a multirack configuration and can accelerate with GPUs to bring performant AI solutions to the edge. You can manage these edge services from any of Oracle's public, government, and sovereign cloud regions, and are deployed at customers sites in over 60 countries around the world.
Accelerating momentum for dedicated cloud
OCI Dedicated Region and Oracle Alloy continue their customer and partner momentum, with dozens of regions either live or planned between them. In over a dozen live regions, Dedicated Region customers are benefiting from increased control and data residency.
Partners continue to adopt Oracle Alloy as a platform to address digital sovereignty and specialized market needs, with announced partnerships to deploy Alloy in countries across the globe, including Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates.
A distributed cloud with a global footprint
OCI global footprint
The global footprint of Oracle's distributed cloud continues to grow. OCI currently operates 85 customer-facing cloud regions, which include public, government, and sovereign regions, Dedicated Regions and Alloy regions in customers and partner data centers, and multicloud regions deployed in the data centers of our cloud partners. 77 more cloud regions are currently under development. In addition, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer extend cloud regions to customers in over 60 countries.
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Oracle's unique distributed cloud is bringing the benefits of cloud today to workloads and data that have not been able to move comfortably to the public cloud because of regulatory or performance requirements, offering customers increased flexibility and control.
I encourage you to reach out to one of our distributed cloud experts or to learn more about our approach.
Read the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
Learn more about our distributed cloud
Learn more about our multicloud partnerships with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Explore OCI AI Infrastructure and our AI Solutions Hub
Or start by trying Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for free in any of our 40 commercial public cloud regions worldwide.
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Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. Julia Palmer, Jeffrey Hewitt, Tony Harvey, Dennis Smith, Stephanie Bauman, Kevin Ji. 7 October 2024.
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