Oracle's sovereign (European) cloud arrives

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Ascending existence, Oracle has finally reached 50 billion dollars in turnover (46 billion euros). With little noise, except promising that in 2026 there will be 65,000 million. It is an important change in its long history: services gain ground over software licenses. It is the new delivery model that is metaphorically known as Cloud . In just a few years, the company has managed to position itself among the leaders of this model, with two aspects: infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and two families of applications –Fusion and NetSuite–, today typical examples of software as a service. (SaaS). The numbers confirm this trend, which on the other hand is general: Oracle's revenue from cloud services grew by 47% in the year ended in May, while the billing of software licenses - still ahead in absolute figures - closed the year with a round number of increases.

Costly Cerner Acquisition Has Opened Greater Opportunity for Oracle in Healthcare Albert Triola, general director of Oracle Spain, has more reasons to celebrate these days: the launch of a cloud region in Spain (number 42 in the world) which, directly Job Function Email Database connected to another in Germany, will function as a single sovereign cloud for the 27 member countries of the EU. The Spanish part is already operational in Madrid through a Telefónica infrastructure sharing agreement. With them, Oracle tries to respond to a very real demand: the concerns of governments and companies in regulated sectors about the location of data within the EU and how it is protected. “I know that prominent Spanish clients have been waiting for it and this news reassures them: a secure cloud region, with quality and continuity guarantees, that knows where it is physically and in which not only Oracle is involved.



Hand in hand with a partner like Telefónica – Triola summarizes –, and if we have insisted on doing so it is because we have analyzed it with the Spanish and European authorities to ensure that our vision of technological sovereignty corresponded with their strategies. After exceeding 46,000 million in sales, it hopes to reach 60,000 in 2026 Initiatives such as this sovereign cloud, a consequence of the GDPR (European Data Protection Regulation), mandatory since May 2018, are in tune with another profound change in public perception of Oracle. “Companies and administrations know the experience of this company that has led the database market for four decades,” he points out, “and for them we now have an autonomous database in the cloud, which no one else has, which is capable of self-managing and self-healing and is associated with our full stack crash recovery technology.