CASE STUDY up from 30 % in 2021 . And spending on public cloud services will grow at 25 % to surpass $ 10 billion in 2023 , and SaaS apps will account for 43 % of public cloud software spending in 2023 .
Remarks Himanshu Puri , Head of Information Technology at King ’ s College Hospital London – Dubai , “ Healthcare today is dependent on technology and innovation . To provide advanced medical care , hospitals need to evolve to host a large amount of clinical data and build the capability to support preventive and population health objectives .”
King ’ s College Hospital London – Dubai clinicians are modern and tech-savvy with a wealth of international experience and are keen to adapt to newer innovations . This is an opportunity to further improve the Hospital ’ s technology which will result in the reduction of patient delays and improved user experience .
For King ’ s College Hospital London – Dubai , Oracle Cerner ’ s cloud offering provides a cost-efficient , secure , and scalable foundation on which to grow . A mature digital ecosystem with these capabilities can pass a multitude of benefits to patients , community , and the region .
The Oracle Cloud Dubai Region will assist King ’ s College Hospital London – Dubai in driving new advancements and boosting efficiencies by helping reduce its operational and financial obligations . The advancements will cover computing , storage , networking , database , analytics , mobile services , and more . The transition to Oracle Cerner ’ s cloud solution is also expected to reduce the hospital ’ s IT expenditure and regain valuable data centre space at its facilities .
The engagement with Oracle Cerner is to remote-host clinical applications
What is remote hosting
With this managed service offering model , Cerner would remotely house , administer and manage the Cerner suite for electronic health records solutions . Remote hosting option provides the technology infrastructure , OS and required layered software , installation of software and resources to support remotely hosted solutions .
Clients access solutions and data by communicating with the hosting facility via a secure , highly available wide-area network using dedicated telecommunication circuits or a secured VPN leveraging the Internet . Cerner assumes responsibility for the performance , availability , and security of the system , all backed by service-level guarantees for system availability .
Remote hosting option provides performance , security , reliability , and scalability with a lower upfront financial commitment from the client . It allows healthcare organisations to leverage sophisticated IT solutions , while providing significant cost-savings and competitive advantages . Remote hosting option helps avoid depreciation and obsolescence of hardware and frees the client ’ s IT department to focus on their core business of providing quality healthcare .
Oracle ’ s cloud regions
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is hosted in regions and availability domains . A region is a localised geographic area , and an availability domain is one or more data centres located within a region . A region is composed of one or more availability domains .
In October 2020 , Oracle first announced availability of its second-generation cloud regions in UAE , termed as UAE East Dubai . And in November 2021 , Oracle announced the opening of its second cloud region in UAE , termed as UAE Central , Abu Dhabi . The Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region and the Oracle Cloud Dubai Region provide customers with business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities .
Emaar Properties , Emirates Post Group , DP World , DAMAC , Tahaluf Al Emarat , and Etisalat have been the early adopters and partners of the Oracle Cloud regions based out of UAE .
Most Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources are either region-specific , such as a virtual cloud network , or availability domain-specific , such as a compute instance . Traffic between availability domains and between regions is encrypted . Availability domains
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