Oracle Launches Base Database Cloud@Customer for Mid-Sized Workloads, Bringing 60 Cores On-Prem
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Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 22
Oracle Launches Base Database Cloud@Customer for Mid-Sized Workloads, Bringing 60 Cores On-Prem
2 articles · Updated · InfoWorld · Jul 22
Summary
Base Database Cloud@Customer is now generally available, giving enterprises a managed on-prem Oracle database service aimed at mid-sized workloads that do not need a full Exadata rack.
The offering combines Oracle’s Base Database Service with its X11 Cloud@Customer platform, which provides up to 60 usable processor cores, 660 GB of memory per server and 47.2 TB of shared all-flash storage.
Oracle and analysts pitched it at regulated and low-latency environments—such as finance, healthcare, government and defense—where data residency rules or restricted connectivity limit use of public cloud services.
Keeping databases, applications, VMs and AI agents on the same on-prem platform is meant to let companies deploy private AI behind the firewall while using pay-as-you-go scaling to avoid idle on-prem capacity.
Analysts said the product fills a niche but may stay largely within Oracle’s installed base, even as AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Dell and HPE offer broader hybrid alternatives assembled from multiple components.