Oracle says it plans first data centre in India
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Oracle says it plans first data centre in India

Oracle has announced plans to build its first data centre in India, though the company has not yet announced the location or the size of the new centre.

It will be built as part of plans to expand its cloud services in India “over the next six to nine months”, the company said today.

Thomas Kurian, president of product development at Oracle, said only: “With this expansion we will be able to further support customer choice adding to capabilities already available through deployments of Oracle Cloud at Customer, as well as other Oracle Cloud data centre regions in Asia Pacific.”

He noted: “Our customers and partners in India have trusted their businesses and mission-critical workloads to the Oracle Cloud for years.”

Indian media noted the announcement came during a three-day visit to the country by Oracle’s co-CEO Safra Catz. The announcement is not a complete surprise. Back in September 2016 the other co-CEO, Mark Hurd, said that Oracle was likely to build a data centre in India.

Oracle’s statement today said: “Over the coming months Oracle will be reviewing proposals from government and business partners to provide customers with the capability to build and move workloads to an India-based cloud. The services will offer uncompromised security and performance at a significant price advantage over both existing on-premises infrastructure and competitive cloud offerings.”






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