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Palanivel Saravanan, Vice President of Cloud Engineering at Oracle India, on AI, cloud expansion plans, and market differentiation

- Jatinder Singh

Palanivel Saravanan Vice President of Cloud Engineering at Oracle India

AS ONE of the world's leading cloud infrastructure and enterprise software providers, Oracle has played a pivotal role in accelerating digital transformation across industries. In India—a market experiencing exponential digital growth—Oracle is strategically expanding its cloud footprint to address rising demands around data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and AI-driven innovation.

With dual cloud regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad and deep investments in AI-native infrastructure, Oracle is positioning itself not just as a global cloud provider but one deeply integrated into the Indian ecosystem.

In this exclusive interaction, Palanivel Saravanan, Vice President of Cloud Engineering at Oracle India, shares insights into Oracle’s expansion in India, its differentiation in a hyperscaler-dominated market, and how it’s enabling enterprises with AI-native solutions, industry-specific services, and future-ready cloud engineering capabilities.

CIO&Leader: Oracle has steadily expanded its cloud footprint in India. What are the key drivers behind this growth?

PALANIVEL SARAVANAN: India is one of the fastest-growing digital economies and a key market for Oracle. Our cloud expansion is driven by the evolving needs of enterprises, especially around data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and latency-sensitive workloads. These are nonnegotiable, particularly for public sector and regulated industries.

Our dual-region cloud strategy in Mumbai and Hyderabad ensures organizations can store and process data locally, meeting stringent compliance and data residency norms. Additionally, Oracle’s AI-native infrastructure, including a supercluster of 130,000 GPUs—one of the world’s largest—caters to Indian enterprises' performance and compliance needs without relying on overseas data centers.