Oracle Launches Base Database Cloud@Customer for On-Premises AI and Database Workloads

Oracle has launched Base Database Cloud@Customer X11, a managed hybrid cloud system designed to run Oracle AI Database 26ai and Oracle Database 19c on-premises. The 8U rack-mountable system features dual AMD EPYC servers with up to 120 cores, 1,320 GB of DDR5 memory, and 47.2 TB of flash storage. This release targets regulated sectors like finance and healthcare, enabling them to deploy private agentic AI workloads locally to comply with strict data residency mandates like GDPR and DORA.

Oracle APEX 26.1 AI

• ▪Oracle APEX 26.1, released in May 2026, allows organizations to run AI workloads on models hosted inside their own infrastructure using frameworks like Ollama and vLLM
• ▪Oracle APEX 26.1 natural-language reporting interprets user requests to apply standard report settings within existing data-access rules rather than executing arbitrary AI-generated SQL queries

Private AI deployment

• ▪Oracle launched Base Database Cloud@Customer X11, an 8U rack-mountable hybrid cloud system featuring two compute servers powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors
• ▪Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer X11 provides up to 120 usable server cores, 1,320 GB of usable DDR5 memory, and scalable all-flash storage from 11.6 TB to 47.2 TB

Regulatory data residency requirements

• ▪A Futurum Research survey indicates that 71% of CIOs are actively reevaluating their cloud workload placement due to AI cost structures and data gravity
• ▪A Cloudian survey found that 79% of respondents repatriated at least some artificial intelligence workloads back on premises

Commercial AI model risks

• ▪According to Futurum Research, 24.6% of organizations identify the inability of AI agents to write back to systems of record as a top infrastructure bottleneck
• ▪Sending sensitive data to commercial AI models creates compliance challenges regarding data residency, confidentiality, and third-party risk under regulations like GDPR and DORA

In-database AI processing

• ▪Oracle Base Database Cloud@Customer supports Oracle AI Database 26ai and Oracle Database 19c in both Enterprise and Standard Edition configurations
• ▪Oracle AI Database 26ai integrates AI Vector Search directly into the core database engine to support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) behind customer firewalls

Regulated sector use cases

• ▪Regulated enterprises in financial services, healthcare, government, and defense utilize on-premises private AI to comply with strict data residency mandates
• ▪The European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), in force since January 2025, imposes explicit technology and third-party risk management obligations on financial entities