Digital Realty and Oracle joint solutions span hybrid cloud, AI, and data challenges

Introducing 15 new PDx® use cases featuring Oracle

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, large enterprises must push beyond traditional IT strategies and embrace architectures that meet the demands of a data-driven economy. This shift from the digital economy to the data economy requires a foundational change: A move toward data-centric, hybrid cloud architectures that prioritize agility, compliance, security, and high performance.

However, to accomplish this, enterprises must ensure that their data infrastructure is performant, extensible, connected, and secure to stay agile and responsive to market demands. The transition away from legacy data infrastructure to a distributed, hybrid data architecture empowers enterprises to not only navigate the uncharted territory of the new data economy but also thrive in it.

Data Gravity — the idea that data has mass, and as its size and importance grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to move or replicate — is the biggest obstacle to achieving digital transformation. As data sets continue to grow exponentially, enterprises face critical challenges, such as siloed data that hinders real-time data processing and analysis, to extract and leverage its value. This makes it difficult to gain actionable insights and make data-driven decisions.

Enterprises must shift to a data-centric architecture, bringing data to the user, and the user to the data, in centers of data exchange, deployed at global points of presence. To address these needs, Digital Realty has partnered with Oracle. We’ve developed 15 new use cases, spanning hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and data solutions. These use cases spotlight the joint interconnectivity solutions that Oracle and Digital Realty can deliver to solve for better interconnectivity, compliance, and agility to propel enterprises forward in the data economy.

Enabling enterprises with validated and verified infrastructure configurations

Built on our patented Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) methodology and integrating Oracle solutions, such as Oracle FastConnect, these use cases provide enterprises with verified cloud infrastructure configurations that address specific business scenarios. Each use case represents a practical approach for enterprises to navigate their data-driven transformations while optimizing for performance, security, compliance, and cost.

Whether the goal is to harness AI for deeper insights, improve data management and compliance, or deploy a flexible hybrid cloud environment, these 15 new use cases serve as roadmaps to guide IT leaders in deploying agile, scalable, and data-centric architectures that support the demands of the fast-evolving data economy.

Let’s look at some of the key challenges enterprise IT leaders and CIOs currently face:

Ensuring efficient management and distribution of data flows between global and local data lakes
Controlling costs for IT architecture effectively
Maintaining flexibility in architecture as the organization scales
Overcoming and connecting data to avoid data silos

The Digital Realty and Oracle partnership: Solving key enterprise challenges

Our newly introduced use cases represent the evolution of the Digital Realty and Oracle partnership, highlighting our combined ability to deliver creative and innovative solutions for global enterprises across hybrid cloud, AI, data, and other transformative areas.

By utilizing Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL® as a global meeting place for data exchange and Oracle OCI’s extended cloud solutions, we jointly create seamless integration paths and optimized performance for various complex environments, horizontally and vertically across industries. Our approach fosters a new IT architecture, one that shifts from the constraints of traditional infrastructure to a modernized and more responsive data-centric design.

Key enterprise benefits of our collaboration include:

Low-latency, high-performance connectivity: Connect hybrid multi-cloud environments seamlessly through low-latency pathways that support high-performance applications.
Data colocation and proximity: Place critical infrastructure and data close to where it’s most needed, optimizing access speeds and reducing latency.
Data sovereignty compliance: Maintain compliance with data sovereignty regulations by controlling where data resides, ensuring security and regulatory adherence.
Flexible data architectures: Support hybrid multi-cloud architectures that distribute workloads efficiently across private and public cloud resources.
Scalable AI and data platforms: Deploy infrastructure capable of supporting the compute and storage demands of AI and other high-density, large-scale data processing applications and workloads.

By guiding optimal infrastructure placement, PDx® ensures that enterprise customers can seamlessly interconnect private workloads with OCI, reduce latency, and maximize performance via Oracle FastConnect. Customers can also access OCI directly from any one of nine Oracle FastConnect locations or ServiceFabric™, Digital Realty’s orchestration and interconnection platform that facilitates expansive connectivity and robust data handling.

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