Oracle plans to expand its cloud region across the Middle East

4 months ago AndyC

Oracle’s annual flagship event, CloudWorld Tour returned to the UAE for the second consecutive year to share the company’s latest AI innovations to power UAE’s Digital Economy and its plans across the region. The company that just turned 35 years old in the UAE will continue to invest in local infrastructure to bring cloud capabilities that will help the UAE Government entities and private sector.

“The UAE has from an early stage prioritised the adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other latest digital technologies, and has thus set a target to double the contribution of the digital economy to the UAE’s non-oil GDP from 11.7 per cent to over 20 per cent within the next 10 years”, said Nick Redshaw, senior vice president – Technology Cloud, Middle East and Africa, and UAE Country

Leader. “Oracle is fully committed to helping the UAE achieve this national objective, and with our cloud regions in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, unique AI-focused innovation hubs in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and availability of our latest integrated cloud solutions, we are moving at pace to accelerate our support to the UAE.

lepoldo, what we are living, double the business unless than 3 year, is one of the growth for oracle applciatiosn worldwide one of the biggest, the business that we have in this region was really hight, the cloud adoption we see in this region specialli in the UAE is massive, talking about clou deconstruction, both in the private sector and public we see a huge push for the cloud, we have 3 data icenter in the UAE, we have another dedicated region with abu dhabi ogernemnt and estisaltar and of course Du i sone of th ecustomer they started th ejoruney with cloud, etisalat is another example, DP world, Emirates Post.

New partnerships

Oracle and du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company), one of the largest telco operators in the UAE signed a partnership to unlock value for sovereign hyperscaler cloud services.

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