Posted by Texas, USA: Oracle plans to expand its cloud region footprint to support strong customer demand for Oracle Cloud services globally. Oracle said it will open 14 cloud regions at new locations across Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
The new cloud regions include Milan (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden), Marseille (France), Spain, Singapore (Singapore), Johannesburg (South Africa), Jerusalem (Israel), Mexico, and Colombia.
Besides, the company said it will open additional second regions in Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.), Saudi Arabia, France, Israel, and Chile.
Oracle plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022. That makes it the fastest expansion by any major cloud provider. It provides a broad set of cloud services across 30 commercial and government cloud regions in 14 countries across five continents serving a global customer base.
OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) currently operates 23 commercial and seven government regions. In addition, it also has multiple dedicated and national security regions.
“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has seen stellar growth over the past year,” said Clay Magouyrk, EVP – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
“We’ve introduced several hundred new cloud services and features and are continuing to see organisations from around the world increasingly turn to OCI to run their most mission-critical workloads in the cloud,” added Magouyrk.
These additional cloud regions, according to Magouyrk will allow more organisations to use Oracle cloud services to support their growth and overall success.
To address customers’ need for business continuity, disaster protection and their in-country data residence requirements. It plans to establish at least two cloud regions in almost every country where it operates. The U.S., Canada, U.K., South Korea, Japan, Brazil, India, and Australia already have two cloud regions.
The company’s strategy is to meet customers where they are, enabling customers to keep data and services where they need them.
Customers can deploy Oracle Cloud completely within their own data centres with Dedicated region and Exadata cloud@customer, deploy cloud services locally with public cloud-based management, or deploy cloud services remotely on the edge with Roving Edge Infrastructure.