Oracle's new Paris region brings its total
number of cloud regions to 38 worldwide
Public and private organizations benefit from
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's price-performance, built-in security,
and disaster recovery capabilities
Oracle now operates nine European cloud
regions that run on 100 percent renewable energy
AUSTIN,
Texas and COLOMBES, France, June 20,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced the
opening of a second cloud region in France to deliver public cloud services to
help businesses modernize their operations. In addition to the
Oracle Cloud Marseille region, the new region in La Courneuve,
Paris will give Oracle's European customers and partners access to
a vast cloud services portfolio with built-in security, disaster
recovery, and industry-leading price-performance. Oracle's unique
dual-region cloud strategy enables French customers to deploy
resilient applications in multiple geographical locations
in-country.
"Organizations have reached a critical milestone in how they
deploy data for strategic planning and operations," said Christophe
Negrier, general manager, Oracle France. "Oracle is helping
customers realize their cloud-first strategy to grow faster, become
more sustainable, and increase their security posture with Oracle's
two cloud regions in France and 38
cloud regions worldwide."
The new Paris region expands Oracle Cloud's extensive European
presence, which already includes more than 10 cloud regions with
Marseille, Frankfurt, London, Zürich, Amsterdam, Milan, Stockholm, and Newport (Wales) already live, and the Madrid region is due to come online this year.
All Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services are available in the
Oracle Cloud Paris region to support regulatory compliance
requirements, which are especially critical in banking and the
public sector. Available services include Oracle Autonomous
Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Cloud
VMware Solution.
Sustainable Cloud Operations to Run Businesses at Lower Costs
with Less Energy Use
Several Oracle Cloud regions, including
regions in North America,
South America, and – with the
addition of Paris – nine regions in Europe, are powered by 100 percent renewable
energy. Oracle is committed to sustainability and has pledged
to power all Oracle Cloud regions worldwide (as well as its
offices) with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025. All Oracle
Cloud regions already 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 FY'21
while strictly adhering to Oracle's data privacy and security
practices.
The Multi-Cloud Opportunity to Achieve the Best-in-Class
Technology Across Clouds
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 globally. 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.
Partners available at launch for the Oracle Cloud Paris region are
Orange, Colt, and Equinix.
In addition, Oracle and Microsoft have established a strategic
partnership that allows joint customers to run workloads across OCI
and Microsoft Azure. The partnership offers a low latency,
cross-cloud interconnection between OCI and Azure in 11 regions
(Ashburn, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, San
Jose, Phoenix, Vinhedo,
Seoul, Singapore, and Frankfurt), a federated identity for joint
customers deploying applications in both clouds, and a
collaborative support model. This enables customers to run
full-stack applications in a multi-cloud configuration, while
maintaining high performance connectivity that doesn't require
another architecture. Customers can also migrate existing
applications or develop cloud native applications that use a
combination of OCI and Azure services.
Customers, Partners, and Analysts Applaud the New Oracle
Cloud Paris Region
Jacques Orsini, deputy director
SNCF - e.SNCF Solutions, said: "SNCF is delighted that
Oracle, one of its technology partners, is continuing to invest in
France."
Laurent Breugnot, head of infrastructure and security, Louvre
Hotels Group, said:
"Having the opportunity to host our data in the Paris region, while
continuing to benefit from OCI's services and features, offers us
huge potential."
Cyril Charpentier, infrastructure
department director, Galeries Lafayette, said:
"Oracle's investment in Paris and
Marseille will help us redesign
our performance infrastructure in France. The Oracle Cloud services in
France will also help us meet our
customer data compliance policies."
Francois Delys, head of data and
IT service delivery, Poclain Hydraulics Industrie, said:
"The opening of the Paris region provides us with disaster recovery
in France, with a data center near
Poclain's headquarters that will guarantee excellent latency, and a
site in Marseille that will
duplicate the infrastructure.
"This opportunity is the perfect fit with our plan to adopt
Oracle Cloud services as a replacement for on-premises components.
With today's ongoing security challenges, we are looking to
outsource certain services that will enhance the agility of the
Poclain group."
Cedric Allain, chief information
officer, Nasco, said: "Nasco's DNA is to always be close to
its customers. Meeting this commitment, we've deployed a part of
our infrastructure in Marseille
and a second portion in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia. The growth of the Oracle Cloud region footprint, and
in particular the arrival of the Paris region, will enable us to
strengthen our commitment to our local customers and our
partnership with Oracle."
Christophe Moison, CEO and
co-founder, Coqliqo, said: "The opening of the new Oracle
Cloud Paris Region is very good news, offering new technology
choices and additional options for where our data is located.
Business continuity is critical for our customers, and this new
region will help support our disaster recovery strategy."
Nicolas Gelly, technical director, Virage Group, said:
"At Virage Group, a software company operating in project portfolio
management, the availability of our services is critical for our
customers, and the new Paris region will help us strengthen our
disaster recovery processes. The arrival of a second Oracle Cloud
region in Paris reinforces our
choice and opens up new perspectives. The geographical proximity is
a benefit, as we prioritize enhancing performance and meeting our
customers' requirements in terms of data localization."
Frederic Malicki, chief
technology officer, Southern Europe, Atos, said: "The
opening of a second region in Paris is great news and demonstrates Oracle's
commitment to Europe. This new
cloud region will allow our clients to deploy more use cases and
accelerate their move to the cloud, leveraging the Atos One Cloud
portfolio."
Philippe Montmartin, managing director, Oracle Business Group
lead, France & Benelux, Accenture, said: "We are
delighted to see Oracle open a new cloud region in France, particularly in Paris. In addition to the unmatched
performance of Oracle Database and the elasticity and security of
Oracle's next-generation cloud, Accenture offers a differentiated
set of services and consulting expertise to support our clients in
their digital acceleration with Oracle technologies."
Eugene Ebara, Oracle Cloud
Leader, Cloud Center of Excellence, Capgemini – South
Central Europe, said: "In late 2021, Sergio
Werner, head of South Central Europe Cloud Center of
Excellence, Capgemini, took part in the launch of Oracle's first
Cloud region in Marseille, France.
And today, we are very excited about the opening of a second
datacenter in France in the Paris
region. I am delighted to be able to offer our customers and
prospects a broader range of services, including the implementation
of data recovery across two national datacenters. I look forward to
helping Oracle's teams in France
leverage the best of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure."
Raphael Sanchez, chief operating
officer, Kyndryl France, said: "Kyndryl welcomes the opening
of a new Oracle Cloud Paris region. This is a new opportunity to
address the specific needs of certain customers, and it's another
step in Kyndryl's strategy to support its customers in hybrid and
multicloud management – in collaboration with Oracle."
Rahiel Nasir, associate research director, European
Cloud, IDC, said: "IDC Research shows that most
organizations in Europe expect a
full portfolio of services from a regional data center run by a
global cloud provider. Meeting issues of regulatory compliance is
the top reason why organizations choose local, as opposed to
global, cloud providers. The latter can gain the edge over their
local counterparts by not only offering a full line-up of
sophisticated services, but also by making sure they comply with EU
data rules and regulations. In addition, customers also expect them
to offer a lower cost of services as well as local support from
their data centers."
Roy IIIsey, chief analyst, Omdia, said: "Data sovereignty
is becoming a critical aspect of enterprise decision makers'
strategic planning – in fact, Omdia's IT Enterprise Insights
survey found globally 20 percent of enterprises put security,
identity, and privacy as the top IT trend in 2022, and this number
increased to nearly 25 percent in France. As Oracle built
its next-generation cloud infrastructure
with 'security by-design,' OCI's solutions resonate perfectly
with these companies' priorities. Moreover, the opening of a
second cloud region in France, especially in Paris, will
offer the opportunity for more French businesses to manage their
data locally."
Oracle Cloud's Expanding Global Footprint
As part of
Oracle's planned expansion of its cloud region footprint to support
strong customer demand for Oracle Cloud services
worldwide, Oracle will open additional cloud regions in
Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and Israel, and plans to offer at least 44 cloud
regions by the end of 2022.
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), Stockholm (Sweden), Milan (Italy), La Courneuve, Paris (France)
- Middle
East: Jeddah (Saudi
Arabia), Abu Dhabi and
Dubai (U.A.E), Jerusalem (Israel)
- Africa: Johannesburg (South
Africa)
- 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
- Learn more about the Oracle Cloud Regions
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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