Oracle Expands Cloud Business with Next-Gen Data Center in Canada

Oracle is throwing down a lot of dollars for a list of real estate investments in 2019 to enable its aggressive cloud strategy. The database and cloud services provider on Jan. 17 revealed exclusively to eWEEK the opening of a Toronto data center to support regional customer demand for Oracle’s public cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is an enterprise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Companies of various sizes subscribe to it to run enterprise and cloud-native applications with high-end performance and core-to-edge security. Oracle runs both traditional and new-gen workloads on a cloud system that includes compute, storage, networking, database and containers. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based IT giant didn’t disclose how much the new facility is going to set it back, but new-gen enterprise data centers—especially ones with high-performance systems that Oracle makes—can easily cost in the eight-figure realm.