Oracle has launched an air-gapped version of its Cloud@Customer solution for high-security use cases.

In addition to the arrival of Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer Isolated, the company is expanding its defense services with the launch of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem designed for defense and government technology needs.

The Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer Isolated is an on-premises solution that sees Oracle hardware delivered to a customer's data center and can be deployed as a single rack and scaled up as needed.

The air-gapped and sovereign version increases the level of security and control of data, and is designed for more regulated sectors, including governments, ministries of defense, and intelligence agencies, as well as telecommunications and healthcare organizations.

It will be available globally later this year.

“Protecting national security has always been a top priority for Oracle,” said Matt Leonard, vice president, Edge cloud product management, Oracle. “Oracle Compute Cloud@Customer Isolated is designed to help regulated industries benefit from the cloud and AI, while also providing the flexibility to deploy anywhere.”

Customers can gradually scale up their deployment to become an Oracle Cloud Isolated Region, which is disconnected from the Internet and other clouds.

Competitor Google Cloud also has an air-gapped Edge offering based on its Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). Similarly, that solution is an air-gapped appliance that runs Google's cloud infrastructure stack, including Kubernetes clusters, data security services, and the Vertex AI platform, even when access to the Internet is not possible.

Oracle announces Defense Ecosystem based on OCI

In other high-security developments, Oracle has announced a new "Defense Ecosystem" industry coalition that will increase access to its cloud computing offering.

The Oracle Defense Ecosystem is targeting US and allied national security organizations and will provide access to Oracle's cloud and AI technologies.

“Nothing is more important than the national security of the US and its allies, and Oracle has been a cornerstone of this mission for nearly 50 years,” said Rand Waldron, vice president, Oracle. “Oracle and our defense ecosystem plans to innovate and scale to help the US and its allies deter conflicts and win on physical and digital battlefields.”

The ecosystem will offer technologies from up-and-coming technology vendors, making it easier for national security teams to adopt the solutions, which normally have a very complex procurement system.

With the ecosystem built on OCI, it is trusted by the defense and government sectors and meets strict compliance requirements.

Initial members of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem include Arqit, Blackshark.ai, Entanglement, Fenix Group, now part of Nokia Federal Solutions, Koniku, Kraken, Mattermost, Metron, SensusQ, and Whitespace.