Advanced Info Service (AIS) Cloud will offer
more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and help
organizations address relevant regulatory and data sovereignty
requirements
AUSTIN,
Texas and BANGKOK,
Aug. 1,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Info Service
(AIS), one of Thailand's largest
mobile network operators, today announced plans to deploy Oracle
Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country's first locally owned
and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS'
customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access
to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services,
including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Oracle is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering AI and a full
suite of 100+ cloud services across dedicated, public, and hybrid
cloud environments, anywhere in the world.
AIS has established a proven track record of providing mobile
network services to more than 45 million subscribers across
Thailand. To build on this success
and capitalize on the business opportunities, scale, and
performance of the cloud, while innovating at the speed of
hyperscale cloud providers, AIS selected Oracle Alloy. AIS Cloud
will help AIS' customers address data residency and sovereignty
requirements such as Thailand's
Personal Data Protection (PDPA) Act and the Cybersecurity Act. AIS
Cloud will be the only hyperscale cloud in Thailand, providing business resilience with
in-country disaster recovery capabilities.
"For over 34 years, AIS has continuously developed digital
technology infrastructure to provide customers in Thailand with a superior digital experience,"
said Somchai Lertsutiwong, chief executive officer, AIS. "This is
coupled with leveraging our network's potential by collaborating
with various partners to connect and support public and private
sector organizations in achieving effective digital transformation.
This enhances the capability and elevates the ability to create
business growth, leading to sustainable competitive advantages for
the country."
"Cloud technology plays a pivotal role in supporting the IT
infrastructure modernization and innovation for organizations in
Thailand, and Oracle Alloy has
made it possible for AIS to become a locally owned and operated
hyperscale cloud provider in the country," Somchai Lertsutiwong
added. "This strategic collaboration between Oracle and AIS will
not only accelerate AIS' transformation from a 'Telco to a Techco'
but also unlock the immense potential for digital transformation
and AI innovation for all organizations. AIS Cloud, powered by
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, will be key to transforming the core
operations of businesses to capitalize on the market opportunities
and create differentiation to take on the competition. This will
significantly contribute to increasing the competitive advantage of
Thai organizations, attracting investments, and supporting
Thailand's economic engine for
sustainable growth."
AIS Cloud will be deployed in two AIS data centres located in
Thailand and will be operated by AIS who will deliver cloud
services to its customers including local support, providing them
with a local cloud solution to meet regulatory requirements.
Customer information will also be housed within Thailand to help customers address data
sovereignty and regulatory requirements across industries. With
Oracle Alloy, AIS will be able to extend 100+ OCI services to
public and private sector organizations, as well as its managed
service partners. This will allow customers to repatriate their
existing cloud environments from overseas back to Thailand or move and modernize from
on-premises to AIS Cloud deployed in AIS data centres in
Thailand.
"Providing our partners and customers with more choice has
always been our priority," said Garrett
Ilg, executive vice president and general manager,
Japan & Asia Pacific, Oracle. "Thailand is a strategic market for Oracle and
the Oracle Alloy collaboration with AIS will serve as an industry
gamechanger for the country. It empowers AIS to become a hyperscale
cloud provider, enabling them to build new services faster while
delivering sovereign cloud and AI capabilities for its Thai
customers. With its local expertise and deep market knowledge, AIS
is strongly positioned to deliver tailored customer experiences by
addressing specific customer needs related to where the workloads
reside and how their cloud is operated."
"IDC forecasts spending on sovereign cloud to increase at 31.5
percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in APEJ," said
Daphne Chung, Research Director,
Cloud Services and Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific. "The APEJ
Cloud Survey 2023 showed that 19 percent of APEJ organizations
expect to increase their spending on sovereign cloud in the near
future as a component of organizations' hybrid cloud strategy
driven by compliance and regulations as well as the need for
greater operational resiliency."
Oracle's Distributed Cloud Delivers the Benefits of Cloud
with Greater Control and Flexibility
Oracle's distributed cloud lineup supports:
- Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve
any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU
sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
- Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud
services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while
partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience
using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and
Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for U.S.
national security purposes. Each of these products provide a full
cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign
Cloud.
- Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services
on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute
Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60
countries.
- Multicloud: Options including Oracle
Database@Azure, HeatWave MySQL on AWS and Microsoft Azure, Oracle
Interconnect for Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Interconnect for
Google Cloud allow customers to combine key capabilities from
across clouds.
About AIS
Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited
(AIS), is a digital infrastructure service provider driving
Thailand's digital transformation
through four business groups, serving a customer base of over 49.8
million. These include mobile phone services on the 5G network with
the highest frequency band of 1460 MHz, catering to over 45 million
users; Broadband internet services under the AIS 3BB FIBRE3 with
over 4.8 million users; corporate customer services; and digital
service businesses. All of these are in line with the vision of
becoming a leading telecommunications and smart technology
organization – Cognitive Tech-Co, supporting the strength of the
digital economy and elevating the quality of life for Thai people.
Meet us at www.ais.th (as of March
2024).
About Oracle
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applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
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us at www.oracle.com.
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