Oracle is seeing high demand from enterprises for the transfer of their existing business applications to the cloud and for their autonomous database capabilities. A standalone database is a cloud database that eliminates the complexity, human error, and manual management associated with database tuning, security, backups, and updates; Tasks traditionally performed by database administrators (DBAs). Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld Middle East: Dubai 2020, Andrew Sutherland, Senior Vice President of Business Development - EMEA and APAC Systems and Technology Licensing at Oracle, said the cloud location is Oracle and the place to be if you are a user, learning in the cloud, developer and designer of the cloud. "We're not cloud first, but we do have the second-mover advantage." We've gone beyond AWS and others to educate the market to some degree and create business demand. We now have a cloud that is suitable for the enterprises that demand expects," he said. "Our cloud infrastructure transfers and enhances applications to the cloud instead of the usual delay and elevator." US software giant UU. It is scheduled to open regional data centers - two in the UAE, two in Saudi Arabia and one in South Africa - by the end of the year. With the opening of the two generation cloud data centers in the UAE, he said that organizations will have a much better performance and a faster response for their employees at a much lower cost. In addition, he said that Oracle is the only cloud provider designed from the ground up to be used by large security-focused companies. Ashish Mohindroo, vice president of product marketing (PaaS) at Oracle, said that Oracle built the cloud from scratch and that it does not happen with other cloud providers. "With Oracle, we've made sure that breaches don't happen and even if hackers get their hands on it, they can't do anything with the data because it's encrypted." We have seen data breaches from other cloud providers on a large scale," he said. Last year, Capital One announced a data breach that revealed personal information such as transaction data, credit ratings, payment history, balances, and, for certain linked bank accounts, the social security numbers of 106 million people in the United States. and Canada. "When we built our second-generation core cloud infrastructure, it was built on four main principles: performance, security, openness (interoperable with other cloud providers), and autonomous capabilities. Autonomous capabilities are very unique to Oracle only,” he said. “Our database is 10 times faster than our closest competitor in the market with fewer resources and at a lower cost and we are much faster in the cloud than on premise. People can run any kind of technology on the Oracle platform,” he said.