Oracle Corp. has opened the doors to its first-ever Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region in Spain to meet the rapidly growing demands that country has for enterprise cloud services, the database giant said today.

Located in Spain’s capital Madrid, the new region becomes Oracle’s 40th globally, and its seventh in the European Union, adding to existing regions such as London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Marseille, Stockholm and Milan. The region will provide Spanish organizations with easier access to the company’s full range of cloud services, Oracle said, helping them modernize their business applications and better innovate with data and analytics.

Oracle has been investing billions of dollars to expand its cloud infrastructure presence, believing it a necessary step to further its growth in the public cloud computing space. The cloud infrastructure business is the company’s main driver of growth these days, and has helped it to expand its revenue at a time when many of its rivals are struggling to do so.

Oracle’s cloud infrastructure regions are data centers that make available computing resources to customers on an as-a-service basis. Within each Oracle cloud region there are three fault domains, or isolated hardware deployments that each come with their own power supply. That gives customers a way to spread workloads across multiple domains to ensure high availability, while simultaneously ensuring that sensitive data remains in the EU region.

Oracle’s general manager of Spain, Albert Triola, said there are numerous local organizations and public institutions looking to take advantage of the capabilities of cloud computing, with a view to establishing the country as a leader in technology-driven innovation. “With the opening of the Oracle Cloud Madrid Region, we’re reinforcing our commitment to help our customers take advantage of the best cloud technologies while enabling the highest security standards, availability and performance,” he said.

The Madrid region will support more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, including the unique converged database capabilities of Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle MySQL HeatWave, the company said. This provides a complete set of cloud services that can help Spanish organizations to improve their information technology and operational efficiency, obtain faster insights from data, and deploy cloud-native applications.

Oracle said it has set itself a goal of powering all of its global cloud regions with 100% renewable energy by 2025. The new Madrid region is already running on 100% renewables, Oracle said.

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