Exclusive: Oracle opens data center in Saudi Arabia in two weeks

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Oracle's regional manager said its first data center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, would be up and running in two weeks. Abdul Rahman Al Thehaiban, Oracle's senior vice president of technology, Middle East and Africa, exclusively told TechRadar that Middle East would be the first generation 2 cloud data center in Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (ECEMEA). The Generation 1 cloud places user code and data on the same computers as the cloud control code with shared CPU, memory, and storage, while the Generation 2 cloud places user code, data, and resources. client on a bare computer, while cloud control code perpetuates a separate computer with a different architecture. Oracle opened its first data center in the region in Abu Dhabi last year and plans to open one more in the UAE within a year. The US giant is looking to open a region every 23 days, on average, for the next 12 months and aims to have 36 cloud regions by the end of 2020 compared to 25 for Amazon Web Services (AWS). There are also plans to open another data center in South Africa during the same period. Al Thehaiban said the data center will support all Oracle products and solutions and "we have a list of customers who want to be a part of the data center." He said that Saudi Arabia is one of the fastest growing cloud adoption markets in the region and that the opening of the data center will accelerate the rate of 39; adoption. In addition, he said the second data center in Saudi Arabia is expected to arrive within a year as part of its "in-country" dual-region strategy to help customers meet disaster recovery needs. and compliance. Oracle opened 12 regions last year and currently operates 16 regions worldwide, including 11 commercial and five government, the fastest expansion of any major cloud provider.

Saudi Arabia is the right place

"The Saudi government leadership is moving to the cloud and it is part of the national transformation agenda and they are behind the opening of the data center," Al Thehaiban said. Manish Ranjan, International Data Corporation's program director for software and cloud in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey, said that looking at the Middle East in isolation, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the largest consumers of public cloud services, with growth rates above the market average. "There are many cloud opportunities in the region and Saudi Arabia is the right place for any cloud provider looking to exploit them." Under the Kingdom's proposed data regulations, providers that have their own data centers in the country would certainly have the advantage from a compliance and governance standpoint, especially when it comes to serving the government, healthcare and banking sectors," he said. For the same reason, he added that local telecom operators are better placed than their international counterparts as they can offer software solutions, infrastructure and development platforms as a service from data centers. national data. Total spending on public cloud services in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is expected to reach €39 billion next year, up from €2,65 billion in 2,04." In the long term, we expect spending on public cloud services in the region to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2019% for the period 27,2-2018," Ranjan said. Al Thehaiban said Oracle is the only A company that provides a comprehensive and integrated set of cloud services and builds intelligence into each layer of the cloud.