Oracle has announced plans to establish two new Oracle Cloud regions in Morocco to provide enterprise cloud services to organizations across Africa. The new regions, located in Casablanca and Settat, enable Oracle customers and partners to migrate critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to comply with local regulations and accelerate digital transformation.
Driving digital innovation in Morocco
This initiative highlights Oracle’s commitment to Africa and is expected to drive the digital modernization of businesses, startups, universities and investors in Morocco and the wider region. This project is consistent with Morocco’s strategic goals of strengthening digital government initiatives and fostering greater innovation.
At GITEX Africa 2024, key Moroccan officials and Oracle leaders signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a new cloud region. Signatories included Mohcine Jazouli, representative of the Head of Government Minister in charge of Investment, Convergence and Industry Sectors; public policy evaluation; Ms. Ghita Mezzour, Representative of the Head of Government responsible for Digital Transformation and Administrative Reform; and Mr. Ali Seddiki, Secretary General of the Moroccan Agency for Investment and Export Development (AMDIE).
Expand cloud capabilities
Oracle’s planned cloud regions will offer a comprehensive suite of services, including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave Database Service, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, OCI Generative AI Service, and OCI AI Infrastructure. These services help organizations modernize their applications, increase resiliency, and explore new markets.
Richard Smith, Oracle’s vice president of technology for EMEA, highlighted Morocco’s unique growth potential, noting the country’s strong business and cultural ties with West Africa, the Maghreb and Europe. The new cloud region is poised to serve as a foundation for the Moroccan government’s efforts to modernize public services and provide better services to its citizens.
OCI’s cutting-edge AI and cloud solutions
Oracle is the only hyperscaler that can deliver a full suite of more than 100 cloud services globally across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. In the future, the Morocco region will provide access to OCI’s advanced AI infrastructure and cloud capabilities, enabling low-latency access to cloud services and improving business continuity through redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities.
The region will also help organizations meet Morocco’s data residency requirements and leverage OCI’s sovereign AI capabilities to provide greater control over their data and computing infrastructure while complying with the digital sovereignty framework.
Oracle’s Distributed Cloud Strategy
Oracle’s distributed cloud strategy includes private, hybrid, public, and multicloud environments. Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their data centers through OCI dedicated regions, and partners can resell OCI cloud services using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate government clouds for the US, UK, and Australia, and isolated cloud regions for US national security purposes.
Hybrid cloud services are delivered on-premises through Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer, with managed deployments in over 60 countries. Public cloud regions are suitable for organizations of all sizes, including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls. Multicloud options, such as Oracle Database@Azure and MySQL HeatWave on AWS and Microsoft Azure, give customers the flexibility to combine features across different cloud platforms.
For more information, please refer to the official announcement on oracle.com.
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