With the new cloud region, Oracle's public and private sector clients in the US Midwest can access various cloud services to modernise their applications and innovate with data and analytics
Oracle opens new cloud region in Chicago. (Credit: JJ from Pixabay)
Oracle has opened a new cloud region in Chicago, Illinois to provide a new choice to its customers and partners to locate their applications, infrastructure, and data for improved performance and latency.
Dubbed Oracle Cloud Chicago Region, it is Oracle’s fourth cloud region in the US and the 41st global cloud region.
With the new cloud region, Oracle’s public and private sector clients in the US Midwest would be able to access various cloud services to modernise their applications as well as use data and analytics for their innovation.
Besides, Oracle Cloud Chicago Region will facilitate the migration of mission-critical workloads from the customers’ data centres to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
The new Chicago cloud infrastructure is expected to provide more than 100 OCI services and applications. These include Oracle Autonomous Database, OCI Data Science, MySQL HeatWave, Oracle Analytics, and Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Oracle Analytics.
The Oracle Cloud Chicago Region has been built to enable data residency, high availability, and disaster protection, claimed Oracle.
OCI provides multiple security layers to help guarantee that resources are supplied safely for each customer, a zero trust architecture to maximise client tenancy isolation, and various integrated customer security services that are provided at no additional cost.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure executive vice president Clay Magouyrk said: “As the home to more than 20 percent of the Fortune 500, 60 percent of all U.S. manufacturing, and the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, the U.S. Midwest is a global innovation hub across key industries.
“These industries are increasingly seeking secure cloud services to support their need for high-speed data transfer at ultra-low latency.”
The new cloud region is expected to be completely powered by renewable energy by 2025.
Oracle has also revealed its plans to provide a sovereign cloud realm for the European Union (EU) in 2023.