COUNTRY FOCUS : SOUTH AFRICA
Richard Smith , Executive Vice President , EMEA , Oracle
“ Supply chain is mission critical . Kӧrber ’ s unrivaled portfolio of supply chain software , spanning WMS , voice , robotics and beyond , empowers businesses to turn what were once warehousing and logistics challenges into strategic differentiators . Our work with Oracle takes this to another level , enhancing our capabilities with the power of the cloud . We look forward to the possibilities our solutions and the Oracle Cloud together will bring the industry in South and Sub Saharan Africa and globally ,” said Joe Couto , Executive Vice President , Robotics and 3PL , Kӧrber Supply Chain Software .
Preparing Africa ’ s next generation for the digital economy cooling technologies to minimise their impact on the environment . As part of its clean Cloud initiative , Oracle reused or recycled 99.6 % of its retired hardware in fiscal year 2021 while strictly adhering to Oracle ’ s data privacy and security practices .
Cloud regions deliver all cloud services and multi-cloud
Oracle Cloud regions support every Oracle service and feature and are available to customers anywhere in the world . This includes Oracle Autonomous Database , Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes , Oracle Cloud VMware solution , and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite .
In South Africa , Oracle has initiated an annual “ Graduate Leadership Programme ” to address the skills gap in the local ICT industry and creating employment opportunities for South Africa ’ s youth . The scheme focuses on equipping disadvantaged South African students with specialised technology and leadership skills that prepare them for a career in the IT industry . Since its inception in 2014 , more than 200 graduates have completed the programme with several securing permanent employment with Oracle partner companies and other organisations .
High availability and disaster protection
Oracle ’ s strategy is to meet customers where they are , enabling customers to keep data and services where they need it . 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 .
OCI ’ s next-generation architecture provides a high-performing , resilient foundation for cloud services , while its physical and virtual network design maximises performance and security . For example , each Oracle Cloud region contains at least three fault domains , which are groupings of hardware that form logical data centres for high availability and resilience to hardware and network failures .
Sustainability
OCI ’ s extensive network of more than 70 FastConnect global and regional partners offer customers dedicated connectivity to Oracle Cloud regions and OCI services – providing customers with the best options anywhere in the world . FastConnect provides an easy , elastic , and economical way to create a dedicated and private network connection with higher bandwidth , lower latency , and more consistent performance versus public Internet-based connections . Partners available at launch for the Oracle Cloud Johannesburg Region include Colt , Telia , Equinix , and Megaport .
In addition , OCI and Microsoft Azure have a strategic partnership that enables joint customers to run workloads across the two clouds . This partnership provides a low latency , cross-cloud interconnect between OCI and Azure in ten regions ( San Jose , Phoenix , Ashburn , Toronto , Frankfurt , London , Amsterdam , Tokyo , South Korea and Vinhedo ), federated identity for joint customers to deploy applications across both clouds , and a collaborative support model .
Customers can run full stack applications in a multi-cloud configuration , while maintaining highperformance connectivity without requiring rearchitecture . They can also potentially migrate existing applications or develop cloud native applications that use a mix of OCI and Azure services .
Oracle Cloud ’ s expanding global footprint
Oracle is committed to sustainability and has pledged to power all Oracle Cloud regions worldwide with 100 % renewable energy by 2025 . Several Oracle Cloud regions in North America , South America and Europe are already powered 100 % by renewable energy , and all Oracle Cloud regions use state-of-the-art energy management and
As part of Oracle ’ s planned expansion of its cloud region footprint to support strong customer demand for Oracle Cloud services worldwide , over the next year , Oracle will open seven additional cloud regions in Spain , Mexico , Colombia , Chile , France , Israel and Saudi Arabia . Oracle plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022 . p
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