Neom’s 36MW hyperscale data centre to run on Oracle

• Saudi smart city aims to create a scalable, agile and modern platform for all mission-critical IT workloads.
• Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to help run Neom’s entire IT ecosystem.

Saudi Arabia’s Neom has opted to infuse Oracle at its 36MW ZeroPoint DC data centre to create a scalable, agile and modern platform for all mission-critical IT workloads.

Neom is a Saudi city being built in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and function as a tourist destination

The name “Neom” is derived from two words. The first three letters from the Ancient Greek prefix neo-meaning “new”. The fourth letter is from the abbreviation of Mostaqbal, an Arabic word meaning “future”.

Neom has selected Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, a self-contained cloud region that provides all the benefits of the public cloud without hosted customer data ever having to leave the data centre.

The smart city will be able to access Oracle’s portfolio of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) public cloud services and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to address local data residency and latency requirements and reduce operating costs.

Accelerating innovation

Richard Smith, Executive Vice-President for Technology at Oracle EMEA, said that Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer has been designed to address demanding data residency and privacy requirements and, with this, customers can run a self-contained region where all hosted data remains local to that region.

Moreover, he said that no other cloud provider delivers a fully featured public cloud with all services on-premises and, at the same time, Neom will be able to increase agility across all business processes and accelerate innovation by accessing new cloud services on-premises.

“Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer is a natural progression of our ZeroPoint DC partnership with Oracle, and will allow us to fully tap into the potential of cognitive solutions that we are developing,” Fabio Fontana, CEO at ZeroPoint DC and Chief Growth Officer at NEOM Tech &Digital Company, said.

Oracle said that Neom will also be able to reduce database administration costs by up to 80 per cent and use its resources to focus on innovations with Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer.

The second data centre in Saudi Arabia is expected to come this year as part of their “in-country” dual region strategy to help customers address disaster recovery and compliance needs.

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