Oracle announced that Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has implemented a second OCI Dedicated Regionat its Osaka data center, following the successful adoption at its Tokyo data center. Running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), NRI built a service platform and disaster recovery environment at the Tokyo and Osaka sites for the company's T-STAR asset management solution. Recognized as an industry-standard asset management infrastructure service and used by over 100 of the largest mutual funds and investment firms in Japan, T-STAR supports back-office processes and front office operations. NRI is now running two of their most critical applications on OCI Dedicated Regions: BESTWAY and T-STAR.
With this implementation, NRI is now one of the first companies in the world to automate its build process with OCI Dedicated Region, a fully managed cloud region that brings Oracle's complete portfolio of public cloud services into a customer's data center. OCI helps NRI to meet stringent regulatory, data sovereignty and application latency requirements, including providing SOC2 reports based on Japanese security standards in the financial services industry. NRI benefits from OCI's high-performance, security and scalability, in addition to a wide-band, low-latency, high-speed private network connection between NRI's two dedicated regions, which enables a disaster recovery capability that will keep regulated data within national borders.
With the expanded deployment of OCI Dedicated Region, NRI can now shift its resources used for private cloud operations and maintenance to strategic areas such as digital transformation. In addition, NRI plans to modernize its core financial SaaS applications by conducting research on application development methods using Oracle Application Express and improving application development lifecycles using Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes.