End Users in the Field Get to See ‘RED’

If you have customers in oil and gas, the military or other government, agriculture, field science or another vertical fraught with tough conditions, you know data collection makes up a significant part of the work. A major challenge lies in gathering that information with little or no connectivity, and keeping it safe. Oracle has devised a rentable (or permanent, if the customer chooses) solution that addresses these needs. Enter the Oracle Roving Edge Device (RED).

The box holds cloud workloads that have to happen outside the organization’s data center. To that end, it’s ruggedized and portable (despite weighing in at 84 pounds). It provides cloud computing and storage, machine learning inference, and even runs custom applications and accommodates virtual machines including databases and containers. It features low-latency processing. All in all, says Ross Brown, vice president of product marketing at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, “it’s a pretty beefy device.”