AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today
announced the opening of its first cloud region in France to support the increasing cloud
computing demands of private and public sector organizations. The
Oracle Cloud Marseille Region will provide customers and
partners access to all Oracle Cloud services to drive business
growth. Oracle's next-generation cloud is now available in 32
regions worldwide with plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by
the end of 2022, continuing one of the fastest expansions of any
major cloud provider.
Oracle Cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database,
Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud VMware are
now available from Marseille for
customers that require their data to remain in France. This will help organizations in the
banking industry and public sector meet important regulatory
compliance requirements. In addition, Oracle offers a wide range of
application modernization and cloud strategies to help French
organizations operate with global competitiveness. The cloud region
is strategically located in Marseille, a top ten global internet hub that
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 cloud
infrastructure located in France
to manage their most critical data and applications," said
Karine Picard, general manager,
Oracle France. "We currently see triple digital growth in our cloud
business that reflects 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 cloud region in
France is part of Oracle's unique
dual-region cloud strategy, which helps customers meet business
continuity and compliance requirements by enabling them to deploy
resilient applications in multiple geographically separated
locations – without having sensitive data leave the
country.
In addition to the dual-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 Marseille region contains three fault domains,
which are clusters of hardware that form logical data centers, to
ensure high availability and resiliency to hardware and network
failures.
The Marseille region
strengthens Oracle's extensive network in the European Union, with
Frankfurt and Amsterdam already available, Milan and Stockholm due to open later this year, and
Spain opening in 2022. Oracle's
strategy is to meet customers where they are, enabling customers to
keep data and services where they need it. Customers can deploy
Oracle Cloud completely within their own data centers 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.
Oracle is committed to sustainability and has
pledged to power all Oracle Cloud regions worldwide with 100
percent renewable energy by 2025. Several Oracle Cloud regions,
including regions in North
America, South America, and
Europe are already powered by 100
percent renewable energy, and all Oracle Cloud regions use
state-of-the-art energy management and cooling technologies to
minimize their impact on the environment. To keep server
temperatures down, the Marseille
region relies on a "river cooling" based heat exchange system which
is 30 times more energy-efficient than conventional cooling
systems. This minimizes the cloud region's impact on the
environment and makes it one of the most efficient in the country.
As part of its renewable energy clean Cloud initiative, Oracle
reused or recycled 99.6 percent of its retired hardware in
FY21 while strictly adhering to Oracle's data privacy and
security practices.
Customer, Partner and Industry Commentary
"We are pleased to see Oracle investing in a cloud region in
France as this is an important
step in helping our customers leverage local, renewable
infrastructure that provides security and sustainability in an
eco-friendly and more inclusive digital world," said Todd Moore, vice president, Encryption Products,
Thales. "With this new data center closer to
customers' business, and leveraging the technical partnership
between OCI and Thales, we will help more customers move to the
cloud faster while securely remaining in control of their
data."
"This new Oracle cloud region in France is very positive news," said Patrice
Valadeau, Group Chief Information Officer, Suez. "This will
provide more options for Suez in our business
applications deployment while also keeping the data of our
customers in the 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 benefits of
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from a facility in our own country,"
said Frédéric Andre, IT Procurement Directory, Pernod Ricard.
"We are very pleased to learn about the creation of an Oracle
Cloud data region in France," said
Marc Goldstein, project manager for
the Information Systems Department (DSI), Batigère/GIE
Amphitheatre. "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, Association Centrale des Laiteries Cooperatives des
Charentes et du Poitou (ACLCCP) said, "For more than 25 years, our
company has been using Oracle databases with software developed
internally with the Oracle Forms environment. The news that Oracle
is developing a local data region is a major factor in our software
migration projects. The proximity is an undeniable asset plus 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 with regard to
the Trusted Cloud initiative alongside Accenture's own investments
in the cloud, we are convinced that this will enable us to serve
our customers even better, 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 country where possible. Oracle's launch of its new
data region in France will enable
them to meet this customer requirement," said Carla
Arend, senior program director, lead analyst, Cloud in
Europe, IDC.
"The opening of an Oracle data region is an excellent
opportunity to offer innovative and complementary solutions to our
major customers as part of their go-to-market strategy or cloud
journey, and to facilitate the digital transformation of their
critical and sovereign applications," said Gilles Jacob, Corporate Alliance Officer, Sopra
Steria Group.
Olivier Chiono, Director of
Retail, Cegid said, "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 Deliver 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 an easy, 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.
In addition, OCI and Microsoft Azure have established a
strategic partnership that allows joint customers to run workloads
in both clouds. The partnership offers a low-latency cross-cloud
interconnection between OCI and Azure in select regions (currently
London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt), a federated identity for joint
customers deploying applications in both clouds, and a
collaborative support model. Customers can run full-stack
applications in a multicloud configuration, while maintaining
high-performance connectivity that doesn't require another
architecture. They can also migrate existing applications or
develop native cloud applications that use a combination of OCI and
Azure services. This configuration will be implemented in the
Marseille data region on customer
demand.
Currently available Oracle Cloud regions:
- Asia
Pacific: Tokyo (Japan), Osaka
(Japan), Seoul (South
Korea), Chuncheon (South
Korea), Mumbai
(India), Hyderabad (India), Sydney (Australia), Melbourne (Australia)
- Americas: San Jose (United States), Phoenix (United
States), Ashburn
(United States), Toronto (Canada), Montreal (Canada), São Paolo
(Brazil), Vinhedo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile)
- Europe: Frankfurt
(Germany), London (United
Kingdom), Newport, Wales (United
Kingdom), Zürich (Switzerland), Amsterdam (The
Netherlands)
- Middle
East: Jeddah (Saudi
Arabia), Dubai (U.A.E),
Jerusalem (Israel)
- Government: Two general U.S. Government regions,
and U.S. National Security regions, three U.S. Department of
Defense specific Government regions, two in the United Kingdom (London and Newport,
Wales)
Additional resources
- More information on Oracle Cloud Regions
- More information on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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