New public cloud region in Riyadh is Oracle's second cloud region in
Saudi Arabia and part of Oracle's
US $1.5 billion investment to boost
the country's cloud capacity in line with Saudi Vision 2030
Saudi organizations can take advantage of
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's high performance and built-in
security, powerful data, distributed cloud, and disaster recovery
capabilities to help accelerate AI innovation and enhance
business resilience
Oracle's footprint expands to eight cloud
regions in the Middle East and
North Africa – one of the fastest
expansions by any hyperscaler in the region
AUSTIN,
Texas and RIYADH,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
Aug. 6,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet the rapidly growing
demand for its AI and cloud services, Oracle today announced the
opening of its second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia. The new Riyadh cloud region will help public and
private sector organizations migrate all types of workloads
to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), giving them access
to a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications
and innovate with data, analytics, and AI. Center3 is the host
partner for the new Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region.
Part of Oracle's distributed cloud strategy and
Oracle's US $1.5 billion
investment to expand cloud infrastructure capabilities in the
Kingdom, the new region will help boost the Kingdom's AI economy,
which is expected to reach $135.2
billion by 2030. The Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region joins the
existing Oracle Cloud Jeddah Region and the planned
Oracle Cloud Region in NEOM to extend Oracle's footprint in
Saudi Arabia. Oracle is the only
hyperscaler capable of delivering AI and a full suite of 100+ cloud
services across dedicated, public, and hybrid cloud environments,
anywhere in the world. This includes Oracle Autonomous
Database, HeatWave MySQL Database Service, Oracle
Container Engine for Kubernetes, Oracle Cloud VMware
Solution, OCI Generative AI service, OCI AI Infrastructure,
and OCI Supercluster.
"The opening of Oracle's new cloud region in Riyadh reflects the Kingdom's continuous
efforts in boosting the digital economy based on modern
technologies and innovation," said His Excellency Eng. Haytham
Alohali, vice minister, the Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology. "This step will significantly enable
international and local companies to achieve innovation and promote
the adoption of AI and cloud computing technologies in various
sectors, which enhances Saudi
Arabia's competitiveness at the regional and international
level."
"With the rapid expansion of our cloud footprint in Saudi Arabia, Oracle is committed to helping
the country achieve its goal of developing one of the strongest
digital economies in the world," said Richard Smith, executive vice president and
general manager, EMEA Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle. "As part of our
wider investment in cloud capabilities in Saudi Arabia, the Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region
will help accelerate adoption of cloud and AI technologies to boost
innovation across all sectors of the Saudi economy, while helping
organizations addressing local data hosting requirements."
OCI Provides Customers and Partners with a Resilient and
Scalable Cloud Foundation
With the Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region adding to the existing
Oracle Cloud Jeddah Region, customers and partners can gain
low-latency access to cloud services to help them derive better
value from their data. Customers can also leverage high
availability and backup and disaster recovery capabilities across
the two regions in Saudi Arabia to
enhance business continuity and help address local regulations and
requirements for local data hosting. In addition, OCI's sovereign
AI capabilities provide customers with increased control over where
they locate their data and computing infrastructure and how they
manage it. As a result, customers can make use of AI capabilities
designed with the requirements of digital sovereignty frameworks in
mind.
OCI's unique cloud architecture enables Oracle to launch
dedicated cloud regions with hyperscale cloud services inside
customer data centers, and deploy more public cloud regions faster
by starting with an optimal footprint and scaling as needed. This
approach helps meet the needs of all countries and markets without
compromising cloud capabilities, while also providing the
consistent performance, SLAs, and global pricing for which OCI has
become known.
Partners and Analysts Welcome the New Public Cloud
Region
"We are thrilled to collaborate with Oracle as they expand their
cloud infrastructure in Saudi
Arabia with the new Riyadh
cloud region," said Fahad Alhajeri,
chief executive officer, center3. "This strategic initiative
delivers on our shared vision of fostering technological innovation
and advancing the digital economy of the Kingdom. Oracle's cloud
regions in Saudi Arabia will play
an important role in enhancing data sovereignty, driving digital
transformation, and empowering businesses across the country to
achieve greater agility and growth."
"Oracle's continued expansion of its cloud footprint in
Saudi Arabia is vital as companies
increasingly leverage AI and GenAI capabilities," said Jyoti Lalchandani, regional managing director,
Middle East, Türkiye, Africa & India, IDC. "Local cloud infrastructure helps
organizations ensure faster data processing, enhanced security, and
their compliance with national regulations, helping them innovate
more efficiently and effectively. This strategic move not only
supports the Kingdom's vision to leverage artificial intelligence
to drive digital transformation, but also empowers companies to
harness the full potential of AI, driving competitive advantage and
creating local value and growth in the Kingdom."
About Oracle Distributed Cloud
Oracle's distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with
greater control and flexibility. Oracle's distributed cloud lineup
includes:
- Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve
any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU
sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
- Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud
services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while
partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience
using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and
Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for U.S.
national security purposes. Each of these products provide a full
cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign
Cloud.
- Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services
on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute
Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60
countries.
- Multicloud: Options including Oracle
Database@Azure, HeatWave MySQL on AWS and Microsoft Azure, Oracle
Interconnect for Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Interconnect for
Google Cloud allow customers to combine key capabilities from
across clouds.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the Oracle Cloud Regions
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
About Oracle
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applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at www.oracle.com.
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