Oracle is leading the race to build Japan an air-gapped cloud, sealed off from the internet. Washington wants it to counter Chinese hacking.
Before the US shares more of its secrets with Japan, it wants Japan to lock them down. Oracle is now the front-runner to build the vault.
Larry Ellison’s company has pulled ahead of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to supply Japan’s government with an air-gapped cloud, the Financial Times reported. An air-gapped system walls itself off from the outside, keeping the most sensitive data off the open internet.
The pitch rests on security, and on Ellison’s close ties to Donald Trump. Oracle shares rose on the news.
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