REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 8,
2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced plans to hire
nearly 2,000 employees worldwide to work on its growing Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure business. The new roles, which include
software development, cloud operations, and business operations,
will support Oracle's rapidly expanding infrastructure customer
base, and come as the company rolls out new product innovations and
rapidly opens cloud regions around the globe.
"Cloud is still in its early days with less than 20 percent
penetration today, and enterprises are just beginning to use cloud
for mission-critical workloads," said Don
Johnson, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure. "Our aggressive hiring and growth plans are mapped
to meet the needs of our customers, providing them reliability,
high performance, and robust security as they continue to move to
the cloud."
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's portfolio has experienced
significant growth. Recent product innovations include new
automated cloud security services, the launch of Autonomous Linux,
and a host of new cloud data services. Only Oracle Gen 2 Cloud is
built to run Oracle's leading suite of enterprise cloud
applications and uses machine learning to deliver category-defining
autonomous services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and
Oracle Autonomous Linux. Additionally, Oracle is the only cloud
infrastructure company in the world that delivers enterprise
applications. This gives customers huge cost and competitive
advantages and enables them to extend their applications as they
grow.
In the past year, Oracle has opened 12 new Gen 2 Cloud regions
and currently operates 16 regions globally, the fastest expansion
by any major cloud provider. Continuing its rapid cadence of Oracle
Gen 2 Cloud region launches, Oracle plans to add 20 more regions by
the end of 2020, bringing the global footprint to 36 total regions.
Eleven countries or jurisdictions will have region pairs that
facilitate enterprise-class, multi-region, disaster-recovery
strategies to better support those customers who want to store
their data in-country or in-region.
Today, Oracle is the only company delivering a complete and
integrated set of cloud services and building intelligence into
every layer of the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's growing
talent base will ensure customers continue to benefit from
best-in-class security, consistent high performance, simple
predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring
enterprise workloads to cloud quickly and efficiently.
In addition to rapid hiring, Oracle will make additional real
estate investments to support the expanded Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure workforce.
About Oracle
The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite
of integrated applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human
Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly
Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the
Oracle Autonomous Database. For more information about Oracle
(NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
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this article is current as of October 8,
2019 and Oracle undertakes no duty to update any statement
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