Dan Eline, VP, Platform Solutions, Digital Realty
October 6, 2025

Navigating today's complex IT landscape, with its mix of legacy systems, multiple instances of cloud and on premises equipment, and cutting-edge AI technologies, presents a significant challenge for businesses. Integrating these diverse environments to modernize and stay competitive can be risky and expensive.

That's why Digital Realty and Oracle have joined forces, offering integrated solutions on PlatformDIGITAL® to help customers conquer their data and AI challenges.

Addressing Complexity in Hybrid Cloud and AI Adoption

Chief Information Officers face immense pressure to optimize IT spending while navigating the complexities of modernizing infrastructure. The rapid emergence of AI presents a unique challenge: how to translate broad AI concepts into tangible business outcomes? Digital Realty and Oracle are tackling these issues head-on by simplifying hybrid cloud deployments and providing accessible AI solutions through PlatformDIGITAL®.

Many businesses grapple with integrating legacy systems with modern cloud analytics.
Consider for example a multinational bank with data silos across mainframes, mid-range, and Oracle servers – a mix that can create silos hindering unified analytics and modeling.

To stay ahead of market trends and economic shifts, the bank needs more advanced analytics and improved modeling capabilities. The challenge for many long-established enterprises is that a large percentage of their data still remains locked in on-premises legacy systems, making it difficult to access, integrate, and leverage for modern analytics and innovation.

The key to overcoming these challenges lies in a joint approach: by bringing the bank’s legacy systems into close proximity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and other leading cloud platforms through cloud-adjacent co-location on PlatformDIGITAL® and leveraging Oracle FastConnect on-ramps, organizations can seamlessly integrate, modernize, and unlock the full value of their data without disrupting core operations.

This will enable businesses to:

Make informed decisions based on real-time data analysis.
Improve financial planning, including ratio and liquidity analysis.
Achieve a seamless data flow with OCI FastConnect.
Utilize Oracle Solution Center on PlatformDIGITAL® to test pre-built analytics solutions.
Leverage Digital Realty’s ServiceFabric® to connect data that sits within other data centers or clouds.

By bringing data to the cloud and cloud to the data, Digital Realty and Oracle are empowering businesses to unlock the value of their data and drive innovation.

Accelerating Deployment with Pre-Built Solutions

Building on this innovative approach, our latest joint initiative takes it a step further.

Oracle and Digital Realty have co-designed three pre-built solution architectures for Oracle products on PlatformDIGITAL®, simplifying deployment and accelerating enterprise adoption of Oracle technologies across hybrid and multicloud environments. These integrated offerings are purpose-built to minimize complexity and maximize the benefits of our joint solution:

OCI Dedicated Region: Provides a fully controlled, secure, and scalable Oracle Cloud environment within Digital Realty's facilities.
Oracle Multicloud with FastConnect: Ensures peak performance for Oracle workloads anywhere through high-speed, private connections to OCI, AWS, Azure or GCP clouds Cloud-adjacent co-location minimizes latency.
Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure with cloud-adjacent: Optimizes mission-critical database performance with cloud-adjacent co-location, direct OCI connectivity, and ultra-low latency on PlatformDIGITAL®.

These solutions, combined with the capabilities of Digital Realty’s Pervasive Data Center Architecture (PDx®) empower businesses to leverage the power of AI and data analytics while maintaining control and optimizing costs within their hybrid cloud environment.

Discover how our strategic partnership helps you minimize risk, maximize performance, and fully harness the value of your data through Oracle solutions deployed on PlatformDIGITAL®. With over 15 real-world use cases spanning different Oracle-based applications, we demonstrate the transformative impact of Oracle Technology combined with Digital Realty’s PDx®.

But don’t just take our word for it! Experience it firsthand at our newly launched Oracle Cloud Solution Centers (OSCs), now available in Digital Realty data centers across key global markets as Ashburn, Singapore, Frankfurt, Sao Paulo and virtually connected in London. These centers provide direct, low-latency access to managed Oracle infrastructure, empowering you to:

Accelerate proof-of-concepts
Benchmark performance
Test cross-platform architectures
Validate ROI before full-scale deployment

This is where innovation meets execution giving businesses the confidence to scale smarter and faster.

Explore how Oracle and Digital Realty are redefining cloud, AI, and data infrastructure—giving you the speed, security, and scalability to thrive in a hybrid world.

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