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Oracle Adds Data Center In Brazil

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SAO PAULO, BRAZIL—Oracle plans to bring a new data center online in Campinas, São Paulo, in August of this year, the company announced today at Oracle OpenWorld Latin America.

The data center, which will support growing demand for Oracle’s comprehensive cloud offerings, was designed to help customers in the region embrace Oracle Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) products.

Companies worldwide are turning to cloud computing as a lower-cost, easily scalable alternative to owning and managing their own data centers.

“In the dominant economy in Latin America, Brazilian businesses are moving their IT budgets from maintenance to innovation,” Oracle CEO Mark Hurd noted during a standing-room-only keynote address at OpenWorld Latin America. “We are seeing huge increases in cloud growth [in Latin America], at 19.7%.”

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd.

In a news conference following his keynote, Hurd said: “Oracle is building the staff, infrastructure, and partner network to take the leadership position in Brazil and Latin America overall.”

Hurd said Oracle’s entire portfolio of SaaS and PaaS (platform as a service) products will be available in its new Campinas data center. He said Oracle plans to bring ERP SaaS into Brazil in the fall, which will include financial reporting and core ERP, followed by supply chain and manufacturing.

The new data center will bring to 19 the total number of cloud data centers Oracle operates worldwide. Earlier this year, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison announced that Oracle would open a new data center in Japan.

Speaking at the Oracle CloudWorld conference in Tokyo in April, Ellison said Oracle is building new data centers to meet increased customer demand for the company’s cloud-based applications, platform services, and infrastructure.

Today, more than 60 million users conduct more than 31 billion transactions daily leveraging the Oracle Cloud.

“It’s gone from an idea to a multibillion-dollar [run rate] business in the blink of an eye, and growing very rapidly,” Ellison said in April.

Increasing computing capacity is not the only driver behind the data center announcements. Ellison noted that national and regional regulatory demands require that Oracle customers handle data differently in different countries.

As an example, Ellison noted that in Sweden it is illegal for companies to collect data about people’s gender, so systems that serve Swedish customers must not have fields that can be marked “male” or “female.”

Having a data center in Brazil allows Oracle to better manage service-level objectives and data governance for customers throughout Latin America.

The system environment at the data center in São Paulo was built using Oracle engineered systems to give customers high performance, as well as stable and secure cloud services.

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