Oracle opens the first cloud region in France | Texas News

AUSTIN, Texas, November 8, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Oracle today announced the opening of its first cloud region in France to support the growing cloud computing demands of private and public sector organizations. The Oracle Cloud Marseille Region will provide customers and partners with access to all Oracle Cloud services to drive business growth. Oracle’s Next Generation Cloud Now Available in 32 regions of the world with plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022, continuing one of the fastest expansions of all major cloud providers.

Oracle Cloud services including Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware are now available at Marseilles for customers who want their data to stay in France. This will help banking and public sector organizations meet important regulatory compliance requirements. In addition, Oracle offers a wide range of application and cloud modernization strategies to help French organizations operate with global competitiveness. The cloud region is strategically located in Marseilles, one of the top ten global internet hubs which is also the fastest growing in the world, which is a major confluence point for submarine cables used for international data transmission.

“It is crucial for performance and security that we offer private and public sector organizations the ability to have a cloud infrastructure located in France to manage their most critical data and applications, ”said Karine Picard, Managing Director, Oracle France. “We are currently seeing triple digital growth in our cloud business, reflecting our customers’ desire to rapidly digitize their operations so they can better serve their customers. “

Oracle also plans to open a second cloud region in France in 2022. The second cloudy region in France is part of Oracle’s unique two-region cloud strategy, which helps customers meet business continuity and compliance requirements by enabling them to deploy resilient applications in multiple geographically separate locations, without leaving sensitive data leaving the country.

In addition to the two-region strategy that optimizes data access, OCI’s next-generation architecture provides a resilient, high-performance foundation for cloud services, while its physical and virtual network design optimizes performance and Security. And as with every Oracle Cloud region, the Marseilles The region contains three fault domains, which are clusters of hardware that form logical data centers, to provide high availability and resiliency to hardware and network failures.

the Marseilles region strengthens Oracle’s extensive network in the European Union, with Frankfurt and Amsterdam Already available, Milan and Stockholm is expected to open later this year, and Spain opening in 2022. Oracle’s strategy is to meet customers where they are, allowing customers to keep data and services where they need it. Customers can deploy Oracle Cloud entirely in their own data centers with a dedicated region and Exadata Cloud @ Customer, deploy cloud services locally with public cloud-based management, or deploy cloud services remotely at the edge with Roving infrastructure Edge.

Oracle is committed to sustainability and is committed to powering all Oracle Cloud regions around the world with 100% renewable energy by 2025. Multiple Oracle Cloud regions, including regions of North America, South America, and Europe are already powered by 100% renewable energy, and all Oracle Cloud regions use advanced energy management and cooling technologies to minimize their impact on the environment. To keep the server temperature as low as possible, the Marseilles The region relies on a heat exchange system based on “river cooling” which is 30 times more energy efficient than conventional cooling systems. This minimizes the impact of the cloud region on the environment and makes it one of the most efficient in the country. As part of its clean renewable energy cloud initiative, Oracle reused or recycled 99.6% of its hardware retired in FY21 while strictly adhering to Oracle’s privacy and security practices. data.

Feedback from customers, partners and industry

“We are delighted to see Oracle investing in a cloud region in France because this is an important step in helping our customers take advantage of local and renewable infrastructure that provides security and sustainability in an environmentally friendly and more inclusive digital world, ”said Todd moore, Vice President, Encryption Products, Thales. “With this new data center closer to customer operations and leveraging the technical partnership between OCI and Thales, we will help more customers migrate faster to the cloud while keeping control of their data securely. “

“This new Oracle cloud region in France is very positive news, ”said Patrice Valadeau, group IT director, Suez. “This will give Suez more options in deploying our business applications while keeping our customer data in-country.

“The opening of this new cloud region is a welcome investment in cloud technologies in France by Oracle. This will provide more opportunities for Pernod Ricard to take advantage of the speed, agility and security advantages of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from an installation in our own country, ”said Frédéric Andre, IT Procurement Directory, Pernod Ricard.

“We are very excited to hear about the creation of an Oracle Cloud Data Region in France,” noted Marc Goldstein, project manager at the Information Systems Department (DSI), Amphithéâtre Batigère / GIE. “In this context, we will be able to more freely implement our asset recovery databases and other current or future uses of Oracle Cloud services such as CASB, or the Oracle Management Cloud solution for managing logs and application performance. This will allow the Batigère Group to be a little more active in the national digital economy. “

Jean-Philippe Lainard, IT manager of the Association Centrale des Laiteries Coopératives des Charentes et du Poitou (ACLCCP) declared: “For more than 25 years, our company has been using Oracle databases with software developed in-house with the Oracle Forms environment. The news that Oracle is developing a local data region is a major factor in our software migration plans. Proximity is an undeniable asset, as are the possibilities offered by the cloud. We welcome this news with great enthusiasm. “

“Oracle’s decision to invest locally in France with the arrival of a new cloud region is a real opportunity for customers. This strategy demonstrates Oracle’s desire to be recognized as a major player in digital transformation in France“said Philippe Montmartin, Managing Director, Oracle Business Group Lead Gallia, Accenture Technology.” Given the strategic partnership between Oracle and Accenture, the fact that Oracle has the HDS certificate (for French health data) and its work Regarding the Trusted Initiative Cloud alongside Accenture’s own cloud investments, we are confident that this will allow us to better serve our customers, especially those in the public sector, who wish to migrate to the cloud. “

“European organizations want to store their data in the European region or in a country when possible. Oracle launched its new data region in France will enable them to meet this customer requirement, ”said Carla Arend, Senior Program Director, Senior Analyst, Cloud Europe, IDC.

“The opening of an Oracle data region is an excellent opportunity to offer innovative and complementary solutions to our large customers as part of their go-to-market strategy or their cloud journey, and to facilitate the digital transformation of their critical and sovereign applications. ” noted Gilles Jacob, Head of Business Alliances, Sopra Steria Group.

Olivier Chiono, Cegid Retail Director declared: “We are an Oracle Cloud partner offering our Cegid Orli ERP to the fashion and textile sector. Our partnership is further strengthened by the opening of Oracle’s first cloud region in France. “

Cloud regions offer multicloud

OCI’s extensive network of more than 70 regional and global FastConnect partners provides customers with dedicated connectivity to Oracle cloud regions and OCI services, giving them the best options anywhere in the world. FastConnect is a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to create a dedicated private network connection with higher bandwidth, lower latency, and more consistent performance than public internet connections.

Additionally, OCI and Microsoft Azure have established a strategic partnership that enables common customers to run workloads in both clouds. The partnership offers low latency inter-cloud interconnection between OCI and Azure in some regions (currently London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt), a federated identity for common customers deploying applications in both clouds and a collaborative support model. Customers can run full-stack applications in a multi-cloud configuration, while maintaining high performance connectivity that does not require another architecture. They can also migrate existing applications or develop cloud native applications that use a combination of OCI and Azure services. This configuration will be implemented in the Marseilles data region at the customer’s request.

Currently available Oracle Cloud regions:

• Asia Pacific: Tokyo (Japan), Ossaka (Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Chuncheon (South Korea), Bombay (India), Hyderabad (India), Sydney (Australia), Melbourne (Australia)
• Americas: San José (United States), Phoenix (United States), Ashburn (United States), Toronto (Canada), Montreal (Canada), São Paulo (Brazil), Vinhedo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile)
• Europe: Frankfurt (Germany), London (UK), Newport, Wales (United Kingdom), Zurich (Switzerland), Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
• Middle East: Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Dubai (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES), Jerusalem (Israel)
• Government: Two general regions of the United States government and national security regions of the United States, three government regions specific to the United States Department of Defense, two in the UK (London and Newport, Wales)

Additional resources

About Oracle

Oracle offers integrated application suites as well as secure, stand-alone infrastructure in Oracle Cloud. For more information on Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at oracle.com.

Brands

Oracle, Java, and MySQL are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation.

View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oracle-opens-first-cloud-region-in-france-301418415.html

SOURCE Oracle