20 Jan 2021

BSO broadens Cloud Connect offering with Oracle Cloud FastConnect_

To facilitate companies around the world operating cloud environments, BSO now provides secure and dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud.

BSO, the leading global telecoms operator powering the digital age, today announced it will offer on-demand connectivity to Oracle Cloud as an official Oracle Cloud FastConnect partner.

The partnership between BSO and Oracle Cloud provides global enterprises with a dedicated, private and highly secure connection from their sites to their critical data and applications within Oracle’s Cloud, BSO will offer Oracle Cloud FastConnect services up to 10Gbps from any of its 240+ POPs.

Built over BSO’s global and resilient core private Ethernet network, BSO Cloud Connect provides customers with seamless, on-demand connectivity from their data centers and networks, office or colocation environment to Cloud Services providers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

Don Johnson, Senior Vice President Product Development, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure:
“Customers require seamless connectivity from their data centers and networks to Oracle Cloud for their most demanding workloads and applications.”

“With the FastConnect Service, customers can provision the dedicated and private connections they need today and easily scale with their growing business demands.”

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect enables enterprise cloud connectivity to Oracle Cloud from trusted enterprise data centers. Connecting directly to the Oracle Cloud 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).

Stephen Wilcox, Chief Product Officer of BSO:
“We are delighted to be a part of the Oracle Partner Network, with the worldwide public cloud services market growing exponentially every year, businesses should be looking at how they’re embracing cloud technology and services to support their future-proof digital transformation journey.”

Features and benefits of connecting directly to Oracle FastConnect:

  • A more consistent network experience with costs optimisation for data transfer compared to internet-based connections thanks to a dedicated fiber optic connection

  • Increased levels of security and predictability for latency-sensitive traffic allowing greater end-to-end control

  • Variety of connection speed options: 100Mbps to 10Gbps over 1GE or 10GE ports

  • More redundancy and disaster recovery of customers’ network infrastructure

  • Connectivity uptime and performance are backed by an SLA

This collaboration between BSO and Oracle Cloud FastConnect will help customers drive business-process efficiency, improve customer engagement, and accelerate their digital transformation efforts.

 



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ABOUT BSO

The company was founded in 2004 and serves the world’s largest financial institutions. BSO is a global pioneering infrastructure and connectivity provider, helping over 600 data-intensive businesses across diverse markets, including financial services, technology, energy, e-commerce, media and others. BSO owns and provides mission-critical infrastructure, including network connectivity, cloud solutions, managed services and hosting, that are specific and dedicated to each customer served.

The company’s network comprises 240+ PoPs across 33 markets, 50+ cloud on-ramps, is integrated with all major public cloud providers and connects to 75+ on-net internet exchanges and 30+ stock exchanges. The team of experts works closely with customers in order to create solutions that meet the detailed and specific needs of their business, providing the latency, resilience and security they need regardless of location.

BSO is headquartered in Ireland, and has 11 offices across the globe, including London, New York, Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Access our website and find out more information: www.bso.co