To meet the rapidly growing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services, Oracle recently announced the opening of its second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia. Center3 will be the host partner for the new Oracle cloud Riyadh region.
The new Riyadh cloud region aims to help public and private sector organizations migrate their workloads to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This provides them with access to a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications and innovate with data, analytics and AI.
“The opening of Oracle’s new cloud region in Riyadh reflects the Kingdom’s continuous efforts in boosting the digital economy based on modern technologies and innovation,” stated Haytham Alohali, vice minister, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Boosting Kingdom’s AI economy
The launch of the public cloud region in Saudi Arabia falls in line with Oracle’s distributed cloud strategy. In addition, it supports its $1.5 billion investment to expand cloud infrastructure capabilities in the Kingdom. In addition, the new region will help boost the Kingdom’s AI economy, which is expected to reach $135.2 billion by 2030.
The Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region will join the existing region in Jeddah and the upcoming region in NEOM to extend Oracle’s footprint in Saudi Arabia.
“The Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region will help accelerate adoption of cloud and AI technologies to boost innovation across all sectors of the Saudi economy while helping organizations addressing local data hosting requirements,” stated Richard Smith, executive vice president and general manager, EMEA Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle.
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Bolstering data’s value
With the launch of the Oracle Cloud Riyadh Region, customers and partners can gain low-latency access to cloud services to help them derive better value from their data. They can also leverage high availability and backup and disaster recovery capabilities across Riyadh and Jeddah to enhance business continuity and help address local regulations and requirements for local data hosting.
In addition, OCI’s sovereign AI capabilities provide customers with better control over where they locate their data and computing infrastructure and how they manage it. As a result, they can make use of AI capabilities designed with the requirements of digital sovereignty frameworks in mind.
“Oracle’s cloud regions in Saudi Arabia will play an important role in enhancing data sovereignty, driving digital transformation, and empowering businesses across the country to achieve greater agility and growth,” added Fahad Alhajeri, CEO of Center3.
For his part, Jyoti Lalchandani, regional managing director, Middle East, Türkiye, Africa & India, IDC, said: “Local cloud infrastructure helps organizations ensure faster data processing, enhanced security, and their compliance with national regulations, helping them innovate more efficiently and effectively.
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