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Oracle Announces Availability of Enhanced Cloud Services in the UK (HITS)

Continuing its commitment to provide customers with a highly available, reliable and secure cloud environment, Oracle today announced the availability of enhanced cloud services in the United Kingdom. Customers will be able to immediately get unprecedented levels of performance and availability for their most demanding cloud applications.

Today’s news builds on the momentum of Oracle’s recently announced plans to significantly expand its modern cloud infrastructure footprint. The company’s expansion plan includes the opening of 12 new datacentre regions and increasing the breadth and depth of Oracle Cloud services available across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The UK Region offers versatile cloud infrastructure services that eliminate the complexities of shifting to the cloud. The new services support both cloud-native workloads and traditional applications, allowing customers to create cloud solutions that suit their individual businesses.

“Our vision is to exceed the expectations of our customers, shareholders and communities today and make possible the energy systems of tomorrow, said National Grid. “To do this it’s vital that we have the most efficient and cost effective technology and infrastructure supporting us. By making use of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service we will be able to make sure we deliver lower cost services, going forward.”

“YellowDog’s aim is to provide our customers with super-fast, super-secure and high availability cloud rendering services,” said Gareth Williams, CEO of YellowDog. “We’ve been making use of Oracle’s EU Cloud Region, but with the availability of the new UK Region, and the low latency it offers to our customers in the UK, it will allow us to offer something different and compelling in the market and allow us to continue to accelerate our growth.”

The UK Region is made up of three physically separate, high bandwidth, and low latency sites that operate in independence from each other to ensure the highest level of fault tolerance. Customers can also take advantage of Oracle’s FastConnect service in the UK Region. Additionally, the UK Region is ideal for commercial customers and public sector organizations with data residency requirements.

”As organizations accelerate their migration to the cloud, they are looking for enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure and platform services with the highest levels of security, performance and fault tolerance,” said Tim Jennings, Chief Research Officer at leading industry analyst firm Ovum. “Investment in its next-generation data centers makes Oracle Cloud a good fit for these requirements, and the new cloud region will be a welcome addition for UK-based businesses.”

Oracle has been growing its investment in cloud services in the UK for years. Today’s announcement augments the major presence it already has in the market, with customers such as the Home Office, Lloyds Banking Group and Birmingham City University already using Oracle Cloud in the country.

“Our customers in the UK, and globally, are growing ever hungrier for cloud services,” said Richard Smith, Senior Vice President, UKII, ECEMEA & South Clusters for Technology. “They completely understand how the cloud can transform their businesses. Today’s announcement is a cornerstone in our strategy to support our customers, new and old, as they look to innovate in the cloud.”

The expanded UK Region will offer a wide range of Oracle PaaS and IaaS services to help organizations run and transform their businesses. Oracle Cloud Platform services including Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), which are well suited for database applications, as well as new services leveraging AI and Blockchain, will be available in the region. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services include the latest X7-based bare metal compute instances and block volumes which are ideal for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, and file storage which is optimal for both enterprise back-office applications and microservices.