du deploys Oracle Alloy to accelerate AI adoption in the UAE public sector
The telecom operator uses Oracle Alloy to become a hyperscale, sovereign cloud provider, offering OCI services while keeping data within the UAE.
United Arab Emirates | Telecommunications
“With Oracle Alloy, du provides our customers with a hyperscale cloud solution that ticks all the boxes for sovereignty. We can differentiate our solutions from those of our competitors by making it possible for both public and private sector clients to adopt the full range of OCI services, including generative AI and ML.”
du is one of the largest telecom companies in the UAE, with over 9.1 million subscribers. It has offered application hosting and technology management infrastructure services for nearly a decade to business, government, and public sector organizations, but it became difficult to maintain data centers capable of delivering the most advanced cloud technologies at scale. The company also saw that UAE public sector organizations had limited options for adopting public cloud services due to requirements that data be stored and processed within the country’s borders. Company leaders decided to migrate du’s technology infrastructure offerings to Oracle Alloy, making it the first Oracle partner in the UAE to offer its customers the full range of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services in a dedicated cloud infrastructure platform. Now, its private and public sector customers of all sizes can deploy advanced technologies, such as distributed cloud computing, generative AI, and AI infrastructure in compliance with UAE requirements for residency, security, and control. Moving its customer and internal workloads to OCI on Oracle Alloy also helped du reduce the size of its data center, decrease its power consumption, and lower its carbon footprint.