Digital Realty will now offer connectivity to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within the Oracle Cloud Singapore West Region, adding a second cloud on-ramp for customers in Southeast Asia.
The data centre operator will provide access to an OCI FastConnect point-of-presence and host the Oracle Solution Center in Singapore on its PlatformDIGITAL platform. The latter gives enterprises a secure environment to design, test and validate hybrid and artificial intelligence (AI) architectures.
The new OCI FastConnect access is intended to deliver lower-latency links and improved redundancy for organisations deploying hybrid, AI-enabled and cloud-adjacent workloads. OCI’s global ecosystem includes more than 110 FastConnect partners offering dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud Regions.
“Customers require high throughput, private, and secure connectivity between their on-premises environment and cloud to support their business-critical and evolving AI application needs. With OCI FastConnect service and Digital Realty’s global footprint, customers can provision these dedicated high-throughput private connections easily and scale to meet their growing business demands,” says Chris Chelliah, senior vice president for Technology and Customer Strategy of Oracle Japan & Asia Pacific.
Serene Nah, managing director and head of Asia Pacific at Digital Realty, adds: “Together with Oracle, we’re enabling enterprises to seamlessly connect to the cloud, scale AI innovation, and future-proof their digital infrastructure in Asia Pacific and around the world.”
New Batam–Singapore subsea route
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Additionally, Digital Realty has partnered with BW Digital to support the Nongsa Changi Cable System (NCC), a new submarine link between Batam and Singapore.
NCC is the first submarine cable to land directly in Nongsa Digital Park (NDP). It will deliver more than 1.6 petabits per second of capacity and latency of less than 2 milliseconds between NDP in Batam and Digital Realty’s SIN12 data centre in Singapore.
The collaboration integrates submarine cable landing facilities with Digital Realty’s global data centre platform, enabling high-performance subsea connectivity, storage, interconnection, and AI/ML computing via PlatformDIGITAL.
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Nah says: “Subsea networks are central to Southeast Asia’s digital economy, and Singapore continues to serve as a critical gateway for regional data exchange. By integrating BW Digital’s Nongsa–Changi system into SIN12, we are working to deliver faster and more resilient connectivity to support customers as they scale next-generation workloads.”
BW Digital customers may also expand their connectivity ecosystems by establishing interconnections directly within SIN12, benefiting from cost-efficient cross-connects to other providers already hosted in the facility.
Additional scale will come from BW Digital’s in-progress NDP-1 data centre in Batam. Described as an “AI Factory” and built with liquid cooling, NDP-1 is a 144MW facility designed to provide colocation and cloud-connectivity options across the Singapore-Johor-Riau (SIJORI) Growth Triangle. It will also feature direct on-ramps to BW Digital’s subsea landing station for low-latency, resilient links to regional markets.
“[Through this partnership,] we are hoping to enable AI workloads, provide reliable, secure connectivity between Singapore and Batam, support for rising demand in cross-border data exchange, and ongoing collaboration with Digital Realty to empower customers with greater interconnection flexibility,” says Virgine Frouin, BW Digital’s chief business officer.
