New Toronto data center
supports growing customer and partner demand for Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure
TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2019 /CNW/ -- Oracle today announced the
opening of a Toronto data center
to support in region customer demand for Oracle's public cloud,
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle's next-generation cloud
infrastructure offers the most flexibility in the public
cloud, allowing companies to run traditional and cloud-native
workloads on the same platform. With Oracle's modern cloud regions,
only Oracle can deliver the industry's broadest, deepest, and
fastest growing suite of cloud applications, Oracle Autonomous
Database, and new services in security, Blockchain and Artificial
Intelligence, all running on its enterprise-grade cloud
infrastructure.
"Enterprises in the region still have limited ability to run
mission-critical applications in the cloud and are struggling to
attain the level of performance they have on-premises without a
major overhaul," said Don Johnson,
executive vice president, product development, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure. "With this new location Oracle is delivering
on its promise to deliver even more customers with consistent high
performance, low predictable pricing and the flexibility our cloud
brings to the table."
While cloud adoption has increased, many organizations are still
hesitant to make the transition to the cloud due to security
concerns and a desire to protect existing investments. First
generation public cloud offerings were not architected to
accommodate traditional application architectures. Oracle's
next-generation cloud infrastructure is built specifically to help
organizations of any size run the most demanding workloads securely
while delivering unmatched security, performance, and cost
savings.
"Oracle's innovative cloud technologies will help our commercial
and public sector customers in the region transform their business
and improve citizen services. The new Toronto data center is supporting the
fast-growing customer demand for an enterprise-grade cloud in the
region. Canada is a very strategic
marketplace for Oracle and we are excited to continue to invest in
the country," said Rich Geraffo,
executive vice president, North American Technology Division,
Oracle.
By the end of this year, the company plans to open additional
regions in Australia, Europe, Japan, South
Korea, India, Brazil, the Middle
East, and the United
States, including Virginia,
Arizona, and Illinois to support public sector and
Department of Defense customers. This expansion complements an
existing Edge network consisting of more than 30 global locations
and 300 plus sensors, providing Oracle customers with a
comprehensive Internet performance data set, and deep edge services
capabilities.
Supporting Quotes
"Our work with Oracle and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
FastConnect has been extremely successful in delivering customers
with improved performance, enhanced control, flexibility, security
and scalability to critical business data and functions. This new
Toronto region will build on this
success and support the growing customer demand for high
performance, low cost cloud solutions." – Bill Fathers, Chairman & CEO,
Cologix
"Domtar makes products that people around the world rely on
every day which is why it's important for us to have technology we
can rely on. We have selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to
support our enterprise, mission-critical workloads so we can
continue to our commitment of innovation for a sustainable and
better future. The new region in the country we are based is a
great development for us." – Domtar
"At Frozen Mountain, we develop products that are relevant and
effective in meeting business needs in a world of evolving
technology. Frozen Mountain has been working with Oracle to help
deliver clients and partners with the cloud infrastructure needed
to meet the modern requirements of this connected world. We look
forward to extending our footprint with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
to take advantage of the new Toronto region." – Greg Batenburg, V.P. Business Development,
Frozen Mountain
"LifeLabs continually harness its medical expertise to build the
best test offering while investing in technology to transform the
delivery of health care. We do provide value to the healthcare
system while remaining responsive to changing environments and
needs. As a trusted partner supporting patients, healthcare
providers, corporate customers and entire provincial healthcare
systems, we are working with Oracle to utilize the power of the
cloud to innovate and ensure we create a culture of continuous
improvement. We look forward to the continued collaboration with
Oracle." – Husam Shublaq, Director for Application
Services, LifeLabs
"At McMaster, we strive for educational and operational
excellence. We are excited about the opening of Oracle's
Toronto region. As we deliver on
the McMaster IT Strategy and focus on providing the best possible
solutions for our campus community, including students, researchers
and faculty, we appreciate having additional delivery models to
consider, including Oracle's cloud technology." – Kevin de Kock, Director of Enterprise Solutions
and Applications, McMaster
University
"Seneca is focused on providing
our students with great education that they will need to navigate
and thrive in this exciting and evolving world. Utilizing all the
cloud has to offer will help us continue to deliver our students
and faculty with the technology they need to ensure the best
education. We are thrilled about the new Toronto region Oracle is opening, and look
forward to continuing to leverage it." – Radha Krishnan, Chief Information Officer,
Seneca College
"There is a huge demand from the Canada market for a public cloud offering
customers can trust and one that meets the data sovereignty
requirements in the region. We're excited to see Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure launching in Canada
as a local region is paramount to Canadian organizations. We're
looking forward to working with Oracle to leverage this new region
and help ensure we are delivering customers with a cloud that can
handle the most complicated workloads." – Ravi Reddy, CEO & President,
SuneraTech
About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure is an enterprise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
platform. Companies of all sizes rely on Oracle Cloud to run
enterprise and cloud native applications with mission-critical
performance and core-to-edge security. By running both traditional
and new workloads on a comprehensive cloud that includes compute,
storage, networking, database, and containers, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure can dramatically increase operational efficiency and
lower total cost of ownership. For more information,
visit https://cloud.oracle.com/iaas.
About Oracle
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application suites for ERP, HCM and CX, plus best-in-class database
Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
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