Bangladesh Govt elected oracle to be Dedicated Region Cloud-How much IT Cost and Benefit of it.

For most IT firms, the utility of public clouds is no longer a big concern. Public clouds and their services have become more widely available, well-proven, and the preferred platform for new application development. Enterprises and other large IT organizations, such as governments, are the significant exceptions, as they have data sovereignty, performance requirements, or closely coupled applications on-premises that preclude them from shifting to the public cloud.

Bangladesh Data Centre Company Limited, a government-owned data storage and disaster recovery services provider in Bangladesh, has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region Cloud @Customer to provide the Bangladesh government with sovereign-hosted cloud services.

Here’s why so many find public clouds from AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle so appealing:

Transforms capital expenditures (CapEx) into operating expenses (OpEx):   This way, companies avoid the risk of building out infrastructure for peak consumption that they may never use. The public cloud thereby decreases or eliminates idle time costs. Cloud cost is often measured in hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds. It is the epitome of the proverb “time is money”. When usage is varied, this leads to more effective utilization and potentially cheaper expenses. The pay-per-use model clearly emphasizes speed. Getting things done faster saves money.

Provides significantly better elasticity:  The resources of a public cloud are rarely fully utilized, unlike on-premises equipment (also known as a private cloud). Those materials are frequently available instantly. More crucially, resources can be reduced as demand decreases, lowering costs. Although resources can be reduced in a traditional VMware or generic hardware vendor private cloud, this does not cut prices and increases job completion time.

Are generally more secure than private clouds–  Public clouds have been hardened over time as a result of years of dealing with and avoiding hacking attempts. For this job, they frequently hire and attract top-tier security personnel. They’re more likely to patch security vulnerabilities in a timely manner. Furthermore, they are immune to perimeter complacency, i.e., if it’s behind the firewall, it’s safe.

Many IT organizations have benefited greatly from public clouds. Moving to the cloud is not an option for some large IT businesses, such as governments, for the reasons stated above. According to McKinsey & Company, around 20% of Enterprise apps are in the cloud.

Why Bangladesh Govt Choose Oracle Dedicated Region cloud @ Customer:

1. Data Sovereignty & cloud data residency issue: The public cloud service provider can’t or won’t give you control over your data because there are only a few data centers. When they don’t have a cloud data center in a certain country, it weakens data sovereignty. A public cloud service provider may be willing to build a data center for a national government, but they aren’t likely to build one for large multi-national businesses, local, or state governments, or for small businesses. This isn’t going to happen in a lot of places around the world.

2. Data Compliance & Audit: Compliance can’t be outsourced legally, according to regulators and lawyers. Organizations in the IT industry may not be able to meet their regulatory obligations if they do not have control over the infrastructure of their data centers. The provider of public cloud services is not liable if a customer fails to meet their contractual obligations. Compliance with PII privacy laws and regulations is the legal responsibility of the organization, and non-compliance is costly and financially irresponsible in today’s global marketplace.

3. Government Has limited access & control in the public cloud: Customers lose or have limited control over the security of their physical and digital data. What the public cloud service provider provides determines security. If more security is required or merited than what is currently available, it may be prohibitively expensive or impossible to provide. The needs of a single IT organization may be too expensive for a public cloud service provider to meet.

Because of these limitations, many businesses and government agencies have been unable to take use of the public cloud’s benefits and value. Most cloud service providers have simply ignored delivering agile, adaptable, performant, and pay-per-use cloud services with the mission/business criticality necessary as an on-premise cloud solution.

Let’s compare Oracle Reginal customer access & how much it cost ?

“According to Oracle cloud,” attempts to supply this solution by AWS, Azure, and Google are at best half cooked. As an example of an incomplete solution that fails spectacularly, Azure Stack Hub is the worst of the bunch. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) on-premises cloud options aren’t meeting enterprise mission/business-critical criteria, according to this analysis. Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer and Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer are two of Oracle’s newest “Cloud@Customer” services that aim to address these issues.

Source: Oracle regional dedicated cloud.

Price comparisons between Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer and OCI are identical. All charges are the same. Like the Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer’s performance, it reduces TCO in a similar way

Database Cloud bare metal, Exadata Cloud Service, and VMs with block storage all claim to deliver unequaled Oracle Database performance. Nothing comes close to it in terms of speed or even close to being as fast. Database application performance is closely linked to database performance and response times.

Thus, vCPU usage is reduced. In this way, customers can save money because they only pay for what they actually utilize. Over time, Oracle charges for the number of vCPUs that are consumed. Less time equals a lower price. A large reduction in costs is made possible by Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer’s automatically finely granular elastic up and down capabilities.

In comparison to AWS, Oracle states that Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer offers twice the price-performance for general-purpose and memory-optimized instances. In addition, Oracle promises up to a 20-fold increase in block storage performance at a 58 percent decrease in cost compared to AWS EBS. Oracle also claims to have a lower bare metal price-performance ratio. When compared to AWS, I/O-intensive workloads deliver the highest IOPS while costing 44% less, while HPC workloads deliver the same performance but cost 44% less.

Deploying Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, on the other hand, necessitates a minimum three-year commitment. At least $500,000 worth of usage is required each month or $6 million annually. It’s clear that this service is intended at major corporations and government IT departments.

TCO can be reduced by using Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, which has advantages in performance and complete stack economics. On-premises, SaaS, and Autonomous Database features are exclusive to Oracle, and no other cloud service provider has them.

Conclusions :

Cloud computing is a major boon to businesses. One of the issues is that public clouds are out of reach for many businesses and government agencies. They have a number of mission-critical apps that must be run on-premises behind their firewall in order to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, ensure security, maintain data residency, sovereignty, and control. There will be no end to this in sight. In fact, it’s unlikely to alter in the next ten years. At best, the majority of public cloud on-prem solutions are only half measures that allow enterprises to be both cloud and on-premise. Some cloud services and applications are allowed, but not mission/business-critical applications. They’re mostly geared for application development. The failure of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform to meet the needs of enterprise and government IT companies is due to this very reason.

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