Oracle to Launch 12 Cloud Data Centers Around the World (FB)
Oracle announced a plan to add 12 locations to the list of availability regions hosting its new enterprise cloud platform. Today, the platform is hosted in two locations in the US and one in Europe. Most of the expansion will be in Asia, where the new platform, launched in 2016, currently has no physical presence. Oracle is also adding data centers in Europe, North America, and Saudi Arabia. While it’s far behind the biggest cloud providers, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, both in terms of market share and the amount of infrastructure built around the world, the major shift of enterprise applications from on-premises data centers to the cloud started only recently. Most of the world’s mission-critical enterprise workloads still run in companies’ own facilities, so there’s still plenty of opportunity to gain market share. Oracle had 0.3 percent share of the cloud infrastructure market in 2016, according to Gartner, compared to Amazon’s 44 percent and Microsoft’s 7.1 percent.