Benzinga | Dec 15, 2021 01:00PM EST

Oracle Opens First Cloud Region In Italy

Oracle today announced the opening of its first cloud region in Milan, Italy, to support the increasing cloud computing demands of private and public sector organizations. The Oracle Cloud Milan Region will provide customers and partners access to Oracle Cloud services to drive business growth. Oracle's next-generation cloud is now available in 36 regions 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 Milan region is strategically located in the heart of Italy's business and industrial hub, supporting some of Italy's largest public sector organizations and its most important industries including banking, fashion, food and tourism--as well as one of Europe's largest start-up communities. Over half of Italy's industrial and business activity is based in the Lombardy region, which produces almost a quarter of Italy's GDP.

The Milan region strengthens Oracle's extensive network in the European Union, with Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Marseille, and Stockholm already available, and a second region in France and one in Spain planned to open. Oracle Cloud Regions are already available in the UK and Switzerland.

"It is important that we offer organizations access to cloud infrastructure that is located in Italy to manage their most critical data and applications. We currently see significant growth in our cloud business that reflects our customers' desire to rapidly digitize their operations so they can better serve their customers," said Alessandro Ippolito, vice president and country general manager, Oracle Italy. "The Milan region also supports the Italian government's 'Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza' (National Plan of Recovery and Resilience) initiative, which aims to promote the economic recovery of the country through digital modernization. Having a cloud region on Italian soil will help facilitate the adoption of Oracle Cloud services by government entities and Italy's highly regulated industries."

Built on OCI's next-generation architecture, the Milan region provides a resilient, high-performance foundation for cloud services, with a physical and virtual network design that helps optimize performance and security. Oracle Cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes and Oracle Cloud VMware are now available from Milan for customers that want to leverage a cloud region in Italy. This may help organizations in highly regulated industries like banking and public sectors with their efforts to meet important regulatory compliance requirements. In addition, Oracle offers a wide range of application modernization and cloud strategies to help Italian organizations operate with global competitiveness.