{"id":429864,"date":"2022-01-12T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=429864"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:10:25","slug":"oracle-cloud-launch-date-for-south-african-region-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/429864-oracle-cloud-launch-date-for-south-african-region-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Cloud launch date for South African region announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cloud services provider Oracle has opened up its new Johannesburg region for registration and confirmed that it will go live on 19 January 2022.<\/p>\n

Several MyBroadband forum members who are existing Oracle customers discovered that the region recently appeared on the company’s online customer platform.<\/p>\n

Users who attempted to change their current region to South Africa were required to upgrade from Oracle’s free plan.<\/p>\n

It was also possible to select the region by creating a new account.<\/p>\n

However, all those who upgraded or created new accounts using the Johannesburg region were still awaiting confirmation emails at the time of publication. That suggested it had not gone live yet.<\/p>\n

According to Oracle’s website<\/strong><\/a>, the company will announce details about the new cloud region in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 19 January 2021.<\/p>\n

Approached for comment, the company confirmed to MyBroadband that the South African region would go live on this date.<\/p>\n

\"Oracle<\/a><\/p>\n

Oracle has had a presence in South Africa for 30 years.<\/p>\n

In September 2019, it first announced<\/strong><\/a> plans to launch 20 new Oracle Cloud data centres by the end of 2020, including one in South Africa. But the Covid-19 pandemic delayed this by several years.<\/p>\n

In October 2021, it revealed it had chosen Johannesburg<\/strong><\/a> as its first data centre location in Africa.<\/p>\n

Oracle said the new region would make it easier for businesses to increase performance, protect data, and get access to Oracle’s full array of cloud services.<\/p>\n

The company aims to have 44 regions available by the end of 2022, with data centres in each country in which it does business.<\/p>\n

That will help ensure Oracle meets data sovereignty requirements, can provide low latency performance on its servers, and improve its disaster protection mitigation.<\/p>\n

Now read: New R15-billion data centre being built in Johannesburg<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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