International network service provider RETN and a member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), yesterday announced it will offer connectivity to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect in Frankfurt. RETN will deliver direct connectivity services to OCI at Equinix FR5 and Interxion FRA10. Oracle customers can harness the power of Oracle Cloud locally, including Oracle Autonomous Database, to unlock innovation and drive business growth, according to RETN.
OCI’s extensive network of more than 80 FastConnect global and regional partners offer customers dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud regions and OCI services – providing customers with the best options anywhere in the world.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect enables enterprise cloud connectivity to OCI from trusted enterprise data centres. Connecting directly to OCI through Oracle FastConnect enables a fast, private connection to the industry’s broadest and most integrated cloud platform, with a complete range of services across Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Vinay Kumar, vice president of product management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Reliable connectivity is necessary for critical, high bandwidth workloads like analytics, data warehousing, and streaming. With OCI FastConnect, customers can achieve high service levels, and reliably high throughput in their network connection to Oracle Cloud.
William Manzione, RETN Product Manager
We are delighted to add Oracle to the portfolio of our Cloud Connect family. A partnership that adds value to our product while delivering direct connectivity to one of the most recognised and prestigious cloud providers globally. Our customers will be able to match high network performances along with the most advanced cloud services in the market. Using reliable point-to-point connections made by dedicated circuits with capacity up to 100G on RETN’s multi-terabit international backbone network, FastConnect will allow RETN Cloud Connect customers to have direct access to their OCI virtual cloud network via dedicated, private, high-bandwidth connections that are easily scalable, allowing efficient responses to changing business requirements.
