Oracle sees Brazil’s Dataprev cloud up and running in 6-8 months

Oracle expects its dedicated cloud structure for Brazilian state-owned company Dataprev to be up and running in six to eight months, according to Oracle Brasil CEO Alexandre Maioral.

The contract was closed at the end of August. Dataprev is responsible for, among other things, the management and processing of social security data and pension benefits.

The Brazilian company's datacenters are in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Brasília. All sites have tier III certification from the Uptime Institute.

“We have two processes running in parallel. One is the adaptation of Dataprev's datacenters in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to receive the computing capacity we’re bringing,” Maioral said in response to a question by BNamericas during a press conference at Oracle's Data & AI event in São Paulo. 

"The other is the manufacturing and shipping of equipment to Brazil."

The expectation is that at least one of Dataprev's datacenters will have this process completed in up to eight months, according to the executive. 

Under the terms of the agreement, Oracle will set up its Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer (DRCC) solution within Dataprev’s datacenters.

The platform allows customers to deploy an Oracle Cloud region at their own sites. According to the US company, DRCC offers the same experience as Oracle's public cloud regions, including access to more than 100 of the same cloud services.

This is Dataprev’s third such cloud services contract. Previously, the company inked a multi-cloud agreement with China’s Huawei and with Amazon Web Services.

Serpro

Another major Brazilian state-run data company, Serpro, hired Google for the deployment of a “sovereign cloud” structure on its premises.

Serpro’s project with Google is different from Dataprev’s with Oracle in terms of managed services and dedicated structures, said Maioral. Yet the executive added that Serpro is in talks with Oracle to achieve potential synergy with Dataprev’s project.

On Tuesday, the ministry of management and innovation in public services (MGI) signed a technical cooperation agreement with Dataprev and Serpro to create a single, shared cloud data storage infrastructure.

After signing the agreement, the companies will have one month to establish a catalog of cloud services to be offered to other federal bodies, that is, defining the packages to be offered and their maximum prices.

The idea is to create a sovereign cloud, a storage structure that will be managed by Dataprev and Serpro.

In a statement, MGI said that Serpro had also signed with AWS, Huawei and Oracle, in addition to Google, which was not previously known.

"The clouds of these providers will be installed within the datacenters of public companies, enabling greater security of restricted data, such as fiscal and banking data, for example," said the ministry.

Oracle Cloud 25

Oracle also claims to be conducting tests with clients in Brazil for a new, separate cloud infrastructure, the Oracle Cloud Dedicated Region 25.

This particular configuration enables companies to bring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to their datacenters with a minimum of just three racks. It is a smaller version of Oracle Cloud, to make it easier for mid-sized and large customers to have a cloud in-house, said Maioral. 

The model was unveiled at the company’s Oracle Cloud World event in September, in Las Vegas.

“The launch is global, but there is a time for these machines to arrive in Brazil. We have some customers under study who asked to be a reference and to benchmark that in the country,” said the executive, without providing details.