{"id":341581,"date":"2019-09-17T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=341581"},"modified":"2019-09-17T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:32:22","slug":"oracle-to-launch-local-servers-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/341581\/oracle-to-launch-local-servers-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle to launch local servers in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle has announced that it will launch 20 new data server regions by the end of 2020, bringing its total number of cloud infrastructure regions up to 36.<\/p>\n<p>This expansion is focused on existing regions as well as countries in \u201cgeographically-separated\u201d regions, which include Australia, India, Japan, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Oracle said it expects to open an average of one region every 23 days over the next 15 months for a total of 20 additional regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs planned, 11 of the countries or jurisdictions served by local cloud regions will have two or more regions to facilitate in-country or in-jurisdiction disaster recovery capabilities,\u201d said Oracle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOracle\u2019s Gen 2 Cloud Infrastructure makes this possible through highly-optimized region deployment technologies, which can implement an entire software-defined data center and customer-facing cloud services in days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full list of regions scheduled for Oracle Cloud infrastructure deployment is below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Netherlands<\/li>\n<li>Australia<\/li>\n<li>Brazil<\/li>\n<li>Canada<\/li>\n<li>Chile<\/li>\n<li>India<\/li>\n<li>Israel<\/li>\n<li>Japan<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n<li>Singapore<\/li>\n<li>South Africa<\/li>\n<li>South Korea<\/li>\n<li>United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<li>United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company is also expanding the number of regions interconnected with Microsoft Azure, which it said would enable government customers to more easily move their applications into the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has already launched Azure data centres in South Africa, and AWS has confirmed its plans to open a local data centre next year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/341359\/oracle-plans-to-launch-20-additional-cloud-data-centre-hubs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oracle plans to launch 20 additional cloud data-centre hubs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oracle has announced that it will launch 20 new data server regions by the end of 2020, bringing its total number of cloud infrastructure regions up to 36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":5552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[26,1250],"class_list":["post-341581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-oracle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341583,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341581\/revisions\/341583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}