MONTREAL — Oracle is expanding its cloud service offerings in Canada with the announcement today it is opening a second-generation cloud region in Montreal, adding to the previous launch of its Toronto cloud region last year.
The company’s dual-region strategy enables organizations to deploy applications in multiple independent cloud regions for disaster recovery, without having sensitive data leave the country which could create issues with regulatory requirements around data sovereignty as well as operational issues associated with operating in multiple countries, explains the news release.
The announcement is part of Oracle’s global plans to operate 36 Generation 2 (Gen 2) cloud regions by the end of 2020. It also follows the recent announcement that Oracle and Microsoft expanded their cloud interoperability partnership in Canada to help joint customers run their mission-critical workloads across Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
“The new Montreal Region coupled with the Toronto Region enables Oracle to provide multi-region deployments in country to address Canadian organizations’ disaster recovery and compliance requirements,” said Don Johnson, executive vice-president, product development, in the news release.
Oracle’s Canadian customers and partners will now have access to all Oracle Cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Autonomous Linux, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Among Oracle’s cloud customers is Groupe Dynamite, a Montreal-based global fashion retailer with more than 350 stores throughout Canada and 32 in the United States.
“It is critical to maintain 100% uptime with cloud vendors and this new data centre in Montreal will offer us that possibility without forcing us to store sensitive data outside of Canada,” said Daniel Marcotte, senior IT director at Groupe Dynamite.
Oracle currently operates 21 Gen 2 cloud regions globally, and plans to open additional new cloud regions in the U.S. (San Jose), Brazil (Vinhedo), the U.K. (Newport, Wales), India (Hyderabad), South Korea (Chuncheon), Singapore, Israel, South Africa, Chile (Santiago), Saudi Arabia and two in the United Arab Emirates, says the news release.
Oracle’s Gen 2 Cloud was built to run autonomous services, including Oracle Autonomous Linux and Oracle Autonomous Database. The company also recently introduced Oracle Cloud Free Tier, for organizations large and small, developers, students and educators to try the company’s self-driving database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for an unlimited time.
