We’re excited to announce availability for Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure in Frankfurt, Germany. The expansion enables commercial users across the European Union (EU) to distribute their cloud workloads beyond the data center.

How Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure and devices work

Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure consists of physical devices with core cloud services designed as an extension of a customer’s Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) tenancy to distribute workloads in remote locations. The network, compute, and storage services on Roving Edge devices enable workload processing at the edge, where data is generated or consumed. As a result, customers can use the edge devices across industries to collect, process, and analyze data in real-time efficiently.

You can deploy the Roving Edge devices at retail or remote locations to gather data, distribute application layers to the edge for performance enhancements, or deploy artificial learning (AI) and machine learning (ML) models. The AI and ML models can quickly analyze the data gathered to provide insights for business decisions or personalize customer experiences. Camera streams directed to Roving Edge devices running AI and ML video processing applications can provide real-time security, safety, and business insights. Data gathered from internet of things (IOT) sensors can be processed on Roving Edge devices by applying techniques such as the Multivariate State Estimation Technique (MSET) to improve operations, equipment uptime, reliability, manufacturing quality, and productivity.

Healthcare satellite locations, such as remote clinics and health camps, can utilize Roving Edge devices to store and update client or patient records locally for quick access. Digital content such as video and images can be cached at the edge to reduce latency and improve customer experiences or business operations at edge locations. Data collected or updated at the edge can sync back to the OCI tenancy for central management and consistent data across all locations

RED and Ultra

Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure comes in two form factors. The Roving Edge Device (RED) is a 2U rack mountable server with 40 OCPUs, 512 GB of RAM, 61 TB of raw NVMe storage, an embedded NVIDIA GPU, and high-speed networking. An optional ruggedized 3U military grade (MIL-STD-810) shock mount case is available for the RED, providing electromagnetic shielding, protection, and shock-absorbing properties.

The Roving Edge Ultra (Ultra) is a lightweight, ultraportable, battery-operated device with 12-core Xeon D-based CPU, 96GB of RAM, and 7.68TB of raw storage. Both devices can operate in disconnected, low bandwidth, and connected environments. Oracle Cloud Marketplace provides compatible solutions for both RED and Ultra devices from Oracle and third-party partners for rapid application deployment to devices.

An image depicting the Roving Edge Device and Roving Edge Ultra. 

 

Conclusion

We’re excited that our European customers can now distribute their cloud workloads beyond their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenancy to deliver cloud services and run application workloads at retail, satellite, and other edge locations with Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure. As a result, customers can process data faster and closer to their users and at the points of data ingestion to generate timely insights from their data.

Existing commercial and US government customers can order devices through the Oracle Cloud Console or connect with their cloud account representative to order Oracle Cloud Services and discuss their use case.

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