MILAN, Dec. 15, 2021
/PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced the opening of its
first cloud region in Milan,
Italy, to support the increasing cloud computing demands of
private and public sector organizations. The Oracle Cloud Milan
Region will provide customers and partners access to
Oracle Cloud services to drive business growth. Oracle's
next-generation cloud is now available in
36 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.
The Milan region is
strategically located in the heart of Italy's business and industrial hub,
supporting some of Italy's largest
public sector organizations and its most important industries
including banking, fashion, food and tourism—as well as one of
Europe's largest start-up
communities. Over half of Italy's
industrial and business activity is based in the Lombardy region, which produces almost a
quarter of Italy's GDP.
The Milan region strengthens
Oracle's extensive network in the European Union, with Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Marseille, and Stockholm already available, and a second
region in France and one in
Spain planned to open. Oracle
Cloud Regions are already available in the UK and Switzerland.
"It is important that we offer organizations access to cloud
infrastructure that is located in Italy to manage their most critical data and
applications. We currently see significant growth in our cloud
business that reflects our customers' desire to rapidly digitize
their operations so they can better serve their customers," said
Alessandro Ippolito, vice president
and country general manager, Oracle Italy. "The Milan region also supports the Italian
government's 'Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza' (National
Plan of Recovery and Resilience) initiative, which aims to promote
the economic recovery of the country through digital modernization.
Having a cloud region on Italian soil will help facilitate the
adoption of Oracle Cloud services by government entities and
Italy's highly regulated
industries."
Built on OCI's next-generation architecture, the Milan region provides a resilient,
high-performance foundation for cloud services, with a
physical and virtual network design that helps optimize performance
and security. Oracle Cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous
Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes and Oracle Cloud
VMware are now available from Milan for customers that want to leverage a
cloud region in Italy. This may help organizations in highly
regulated industries like banking and public sectors with their
efforts to meet important regulatory compliance requirements. In
addition, Oracle offers a wide range of application modernization
and cloud strategies to help Italian organizations
operate with global competitiveness.
Customer Commentary on the Opening of the Milan
Region
Marcella Schiavi, IT Manager,
Trenord, a subsidiary of Trenitalia, dedicated to public
rail transport in the most mobile region of Italy, Lombardy, said: "In 2017 we started to renew
and consolidate our infrastructure working toward cloud solutions.
We selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for our ticketing platform,
to ensure high performance in a safe, innovative and sustainable
way. Today, we confirm and renew our choice together with
Azienda Trasporti Milanesi (ATM), who manages public
transport and integrated mobility in Milan and across Lombardy, to jointly deliver the new
electronic ticketing systems created by the SBE Consortium. The
Oracle Cloud Milan Region offers us further opportunities to scale
to the cloud with low latency allowing us to focus on customer
experience and data security."
Roberto Andreoli, Chief
Information Officer, ATM, added: "The new electronic
ticketing system project, coordinated by the SBE consortium, will
use the Milan region. This is with
the goal of ensuring the interoperability of electronic ticketing
systems for the transport network of the metropolitan city of
Milan and the region of
Lombardy."
Alessio Pomasan, Chief
Information Officer, Banca Mediolanum, a leading bank,
insurance and asset management provider, said: "Banca Mediolanum
has long been using Oracle technology services to manage our most
mission-critical data. The new cloud region in Italy is interesting because it offers new
opportunities for a company like ours which operates in a highly
regulated market. With reduced service and application latencies
facilitated by the proximity of the Milan region, we will be able to explore new
possibilities and ways of operating and serving our customers."
Mario Martinelli, Chief
Information Officer, SISAL, a major gaming company with a
network of over 50,000 retail outlets, said: "As a leading
international gaming operator, SISAL is an inherently a data-driven
business, and Oracle has always been central to this approach. With
Oracle Cloud we have been able to vastly accelerate
innovation—including bringing innovative Artificial Intelligence
solutions to our services—and create more value through data across
our business. The high performance and low latency offered by the
new Milan region will give us the
flexibility to move more critical workloads to the cloud and enable
us to consider new business opportunities and service
offerings."
Giuseppe Cardillo, IT Director,
Gruppo Bancario Cooperativo Iccrea, said: "After
initially consolidating our data management with Oracle databases
on Exadata Engineered Systems, the intermediate step to the cloud
was Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer. By this I mean cloud services
with machines physically located in our data centres. We are very
pleased with the opening of an Oracle Cloud Region in Italy. This will facilitate our cloud adoption
path with regulatory and also technical benefits, including lower
latency which will make everything more efficient."
Anna Sappa, Chief Technology
Officer, INAIL (National Institute for Insurance against
Accidents at Work), an Italian statutory
corporation overseen by the Ministry of Labour and Social
Policies, said: "Thanks to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, we had
already chosen to 'build our own cloud' in our data centres in
Rome. By using cloud technology to
complete the consolidation of our Institute's data, we began to use
new deployment, provisioning and monitoring tools. Now we are ready
to complete our journey to the cloud, in accordance with the
government guidelines on data management. That is why the opening
of an Oracle Cloud Milan Region is of great interest for INAIL – it
has the levels of security and performance that we have come to
appreciate, combined with an improvement in latencies and disaster
protection."
Filippo Cecchi, IT Infrastructure
and Services Lead, Unicoop Firenze, one of the oldest and
biggest large-scale distribution organisations in Italy with retail outlets throughout
Tuscany, said: "We have always
used Oracle systems and technology for data management and
analytics. This provides more timely and personalised services to
customers and helps us manage distribution in a sustainable and
economically viable way. We are very familiar with Oracle
technology on-premises, and we have started working in a hybrid
mode with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivering excellent results.
That is why the opening of an Oracle Cloud Region in Italy will be essential to continue our
migration of workloads to the cloud, thanks to low latency and high
performance."
Flavio Mauri, Chief Information
Officer, Cerved Group, the main Italian data provider for
banking and insurance, said: "Oracle's choice to open a cloud
region in Italy fully meets the
expectations of Cerved Group. As a matter of fact, it was our
intention to move our data management architecture to the cloud, so
we will be among the first Oracle customers to operate in this
region in Italy."
Andrea Cesarini, Oracle Business
Group Lead Europe, Accenture, said: "The opening of the
Milan region in Italy will enable us to better help our
clients reimagine their futures with cloud, using it as a launchpad
to drive continuous innovation and unlock the value of data. By
leveraging Oracle Cloud, organizations across industries can bring
the power and efficiency of automation to business functions across
their enterprise in a secure environment. Finally, the fact that
Oracle's cloud platforms are powered by 100 percent renewable
energy sources will help our clients advance their sustainability
efforts."
Sustainability as a Priority
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 eight cloud regions in
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. 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.
Cloud Regions Deliver Multicloud
Oracle's strategy is to meet customers where they are, and
providing options that can enable customers to have data and
services hosted largely where they need it. Customers can deploy
Oracle Cloud 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.
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 one
of the best options anywhere in the world. FastConnect can be a
relatively 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 8 select regions, 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 potentially
migrate existing applications or develop
native cloud applications that use a combination of OCI
and Azure services.
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), Singapore (Singapore)
- 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), Marseille
(France), Milan (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden)
- Middle
East: Jeddah (Saudi
Arabia), Abu Dhabi (U.A.E),
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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