Last month, Oracle announced its first cloud region for Africa, with Johannesburg serving as the central hub into the rest of the continent.
A little over one month later and now co-location data centre specialists Teraco has confirmed that it will offer connectivity directly through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect at its Isando Campus.
It now means that potential and current Oracle customers now have an additional avenue through which to access the company’s cloud-based solutions.
Teraco has also been talking up the additional value that FastConnect will bring to the table, specifically highlighting the following in a press release sent to Hypertext:
- “More consistent network performance and lower latency, compared with the public Internet
- Near-seamless connectivity between the data centre and networks to OCI for demanding workloads and applications
- Increased reliability, with a dedicated and pre-established path to OCI
- Improved security because data traffic flows strictly over trusted endpoints in a secure data centre location
- A relatively easy and cost-effective way to set up hybrid and multi-cloud workloads
- Near-seamless management of physical and virtual connections through a single portal.”
“Our direct connections to OCI builds upon our commitment to ensure that our clients have direct, secure access to the critical IT resources they need to drive business success. The demand for Oracle Cloud in our market is a testament to its strength, and we are extremely pleased to be working closely with Oracle to accelerate their service delivery,” added Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo (pictured above).
As far as what the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will offer enterprise customers, a number of different technologies have been outlined, but the company has noted in particular that its solutions will be of benefit in application development, business analytics, data management, integration, security, AI and blockchain.
