American Tech Company Oracle Launches New Data Centre In South Africa
American Tech Company Oracle Launches New Data Centre In South Africa. American tech company Oracle announced that it has launched a new cloud region in Johannesburg which delivers superior performance, built-in security, and high availability.
According to Oracle, the Oracle Cloud Johannesburg Region will boost cloud adoption across Africa while also helping businesses achieve better performance and drive continuous innovation. The opening marks Oracle’s 37th cloud region 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 fourth industrial revolution, which is powered by cloud-led technologies, has significantly accelerated in South Africa and the wider African continent. In recent months, cloud technologies have played a vital role in helping African public and private sector organisations ensure business continuity, deliver essential services, and meet evolving customer expectations. The Oracle Johannesburg region offers a next-generation cloud to run any application faster and more securely for less, helping businesses build resilience, agility and achieve improved ROI,” said Richard Smith, executive vice president of EMEA, Oracle in a statement.
The Johannesburg region is built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and this enables customers to easily migrate IT workloads and data platforms to the cloud or build new cloud native applications. In addition, Oracle offers a wide range of application modernisation and cloud strategies to help African organisations operate with global competitiveness.
Oracle is a company that has many long standing partnerships with South African companies, this is because it provides essential services that ICT companies such as Telkom need to operate. “Telkom plays a leading role in South Africa’s digital revolution, providing the latest converged ICT solutions for a range of business and residential customers. The Johannesburg region will boost the local infrastructure capability of South Africa and the wider continent, and help organisations kick-start their digital transformation journeys,” said Reubin Layman, CIO of Telkom SA, in a statement.
