Recent Posts by Andrew Reichman

Oracle is excited to take the next step in our ambitious regional expansion plan, with five new cloud regions. We’ve added local regions in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Australia (Melbourne), Japan (Osaka), Canada (Montreal), and The Netherlands (Amsterdam). As of today, all of them are open for business and available in the Oracle Cloud Console. We’ve already opened 10 cloud regions in the last six months, and with these five new regions, we now have Oracle’s Generation 2 Cloud...

Guest post by Krithika Bhat, Group Vice President, Oracle Application Labs There’s no doubt that the cloud has changed the way we do business, as individuals, teams, and companies. At Oracle, we’ve seen a new level of collaboration between our IT and business teams. This collaboration has powered our transformation from a technology provider to a services provider and allowed us to deliver better experiences to our customers and employees. If you joined our team of transformers...

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team is excited to announce that we’ve achieved DISA Impact Level 5 (IL5) provisional authorization (PATO) in three cloud regions built for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) workloads. These sites, based in Phoenix, Chicago, and Ashburn, Va., are open for business and can support critical applications and systems that the military depends on. Each of the DoD facilities within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure government regions is based on...

Accenture recently published a study that measured performance and explored the usability of the interconnection between Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure in an enterprise context. Announced in 2019, the interconnection is a unique multicloud alliance that lets customers share data among applications on each cloud and build applications that span both clouds. Accenture was one of the first partners that engaged with Oracle related to the interconnection, and their testing...

When we decided to build a cloud that could run our customers’ most challenging enterprise workloads, we knew we had a big job ahead of us. We needed a fast and flat network, bare metal instances with the latest chipsets, and connectivity and storage capable of running massive I/O. When we learned at Supercomputing 2019 that we are one of only two public clouds in the list of the top 20 supercomputing architectures in the world put out by the Virtual Institute for IO in their...

Oracle is excited to announce the achievement of FedRAMP authorization for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Government regions in Ashburn, VA, and Phoenix, AZ. Oracle is a long-standing solutions provider to U.S. public sector agencies and organizations spanning federal, state, and local governments, to higher education institutions, and to commercial organizations that work closely with government agencies and contracts. This latest achievement is a part of our larger effort...

At Oracle OpenWorld 2018, we announced an ambitious plan to take our Generation 2 Cloud platform global within a single year. We’ve delivered on this promise and have launched 12 new cloud regions this year. We still have three more to go as part of that initial expansion initiative, and we're on track to get all of it done on time and without any major issues. We’ve learned a great deal in the process of building a global cloud platform specifically for enterprise usage. Two...

Oracle has built a Generation 2 Cloud for the enterprise that helps leading organizations in every industry solve their most challenging business and technology problems with consistently high performance, solid reliability, and a unique compatibility with on-premises solutions. At Oracle OpenWorld last year, we committed to make our cloud platform available in all of the major geographies where our customers operate. This month, we’ve made big progress toward that goal...