Oracle plans to expand its cloud region across the Middle East

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. 

“The UAE is one of the most innovative countries in the world and our public sector are rapidly embracing the adoption of advanced technologies to deliver a world class experience for businesses, citizens, residents and tourists.  Cloud is the platform for innovation and provides a rich source of services for digital reinvention.  At du, we are doubling down on digital capabilities in response to the visionary calls for the UAE to transform into the most technologically advanced nation by 2030.  Sovereign cloud capabilities are a key pillar of this transformation.” said Jasim Al Awadi, CICTO (Acting) at du.”

During the event, Oracle also signed a partnership with etisalat by e&, headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Etisalat selected OCI Dedicated Region as one of its primary cloud platforms. This decision aligns with the company’s goals to streamline and modernize its operations and business support systems, fostering the growth of its digital services portfolio. With the plan of incorporating NVIDIA clusters into its dedicated Oracle cloud region.

“Our cloud journey started some time ago, when it was time to transform our applications to cloud-native applications we saw a gap to enable that transformation, that gap has been a critical infrastructure provider, that was a challenge and we had clear that we wanted to embark our journey and achieve all the benefits of the cloud and that’s why we partnered with Oracle, with the purpose to modernize our applications and in the way we serve our customers,” said Khalid Murshed, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Etisalat UAE. “Cloud data applications provide better scalability and more agile operations, you don’t need a major upgrade every quarter, we believe we have the best benefits of having our applications on the cloud.”