U.S.-based Oracle is expanding its cloud services to 14 countries on five continents, the company said in a news release.
"Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has seen stellar growth over the past year," Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure said in a news release. "We've introduced several hundred new cloud services and features and are continuing to see organizations from around the world increasingly turn to OCI to run their most mission-critical workloads in the cloud. With the additional Cloud regions, even more organizations will be able to use our cloud services to support their growth and overall success."
Within the next year, Oracle will open new cloud service locations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Several locations will open in major cities including Milan, Stockholm, Marseille, France, Johannesburg and Jerusalem, a news release said.
"Oracle plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022, continuing one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider," it said.
Storing data in the cloud protects it during disasters, the company said.
"Oracle's strategy is to meet customers where they are, enabling customers to keep data and services where they need it," the company said in the release. "Customers can deploy Oracle Cloud completely within their own data centers with dedicated Region and Exadata Cloud@Customer, deploy cloud services locally with public cloud-based management, or deploy cloud services remotely on the edge with Roving Edge Infrastructure."
Each cloud region has at least three fault domains, which are "groupings of hardware that form logical data centers for high availability and resilience to hardware and network failures," the company said. "Some regions provide further resilience to entire data centers through multiple availability domains, which each contain three fault domains."