The company targets to have at least 44 cloud regions globally by the end of next year

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Oracle currently has 30 cloud regions worldwide. (Credit: Oracle)

US-based technology firm Oracle has announced plans to open 14 new cloud regions worldwide over the next year.

The new regions will be located across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

Currently, the tech firm has 30 cloud regions worldwide and the company targets to expand them to at least 44 by the end of 2022.

The new regions will be located in Milan (Italy), Stockholm (Sweden), Marseille (France), Spain, Singapore (Singapore), Johannesburg (South Africa), Jerusalem (Israel), Mexico, and Colombia.

As part of the new plans, the company will open additional second regions in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Saudi Arabia, France, Israel, and Chile.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure executive vice president Clay Magouyrk said: “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has seen stellar growth over the past year.

“We’ve introduced several hundred new cloud services and features and are continuing to see organisations from around the world increasingly turn to OCI to run their most mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

“With the additional Cloud regions, even more organizations will be able to use our cloud services to support their growth and overall success.”

The company offers cloud services across 30 commercial and government cloud regions in 14 countries on five continents.

It intends to open at least two regions in almost every country where it operates. It already has two cloud regions in the US, Canada, the UK, South Korea, Japan, Brazil, India, and Australia.

In May this year, the firm opened its second cloud region in São Paulo, adding Brazil to its list of countries where it has two cloud regions.

The cloud regions support all Oracle services and features that include Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Oracle Cloud VMware solution, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.

The tech firm has also made a commitment to power all its cloud regions worldwide with 100% renewable energy by 2025.

Through a network of over 70 FastConnect global and regional partners, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers customers connectivity to Oracle Cloud regions and OCI services.

Besides, a partnership between OCI and Microsoft Azure allows joint customers to run workloads across the two clouds.

The partnership offers a low latency, cross-cloud interconnect between OCI and Azure in eight regions, which include Ashburn, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, San Jose, Vinhedo and Frankfurt.