Oracle has announced its plan to invest over 1000 million euros to open a third cloud region in Madrid and promote the development of artificial intelligence (AI) skills throughout the country. This new public cloud region will allow Oracle customers and partners in Spain, including prominent financial sectors, to migrate their critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), complying with regulations such as the Digital Operational Resilience Law (DORA) and European Outsourcing Guidelines (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA). Telefónica España will be the hosting partner for the planned cloud region.
The new cloud region in Madrid will help organizations in the public and private sectors migrate all types of workloads to the cloud, modernize their applications, and innovate with data, analytics, and AI. Oracle is the only hyperscale provider capable of offering AI and a complete suite of over 100 cloud services in dedicated, public, and hybrid environments worldwide. This includes Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave Database Service, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, OCI Generative AI service, and OCI AI Infrastructure.
“A boost for digital transformation in Spain”
“The opening of Oracle’s third cloud region in Spain is excellent news for our country,” said José Luis Escrivá, Minister of Digital Transformation and Public Administration of the Government of Spain. “The investment announced by Oracle provides a significant boost that will help Spanish companies and public sector organizations innovate with AI and continue to progress on the path of digital transformation.”
“It is great news that major technology multinationals like Oracle are announcing this level of investment in the Madrid Region,” said Miguel López-Valverde, Commissioner of Digitalization in the Government of the Community of Madrid. “We are convinced of the importance of public-private collaboration in this area and of facilitating the development of cloud infrastructure in our region. In the next three years, Madrid is expected to receive investments of over six billion euros from the cloud industry, which is crucial to help us build a digital economy capable of creating high-quality jobs, attracting investments, and retaining talent.”
“Strengthening digital infrastructure”
Oracle also offers a separate EU sovereign cloud with a region in Madrid to help public and private sector clients move sensitive, regulated, or strategically important regional data and applications to the cloud. Oracle’s EU sovereign cloud in Madrid is operated by EU-based staff and supports workloads that comply with EU data sovereignty and privacy guidelines and requirements.
“Companies and organizations in the public sector in Spain are rapidly adopting the cloud to access the latest digital technologies like AI, and the upcoming public cloud in Madrid will help them meet data residency requirements and regulations in key sectors such as financial services,” commented Albert Triola, Country Leader, Oracle Spain. “With our plans to invest an additional 1000 million euros in Spain over the next 10 years, we reaffirm our commitment to helping Spanish organizations of all sizes and industries, including small and medium businesses and the financial services industry, accelerate their adoption of cloud technologies to improve business performance and resilience.”
“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: A resilient and scalable foundation”
With the upcoming new region adding to Oracle Cloud’s existing region in Madrid, customers and partners can gain additional low-latency access to cloud services to better leverage their data. Customers can also benefit from high availability and disaster recovery capabilities to enhance business continuity and comply with data residency regulations and requirements in Spain and the EU, as well as industry-specific requirements and regulations, such as the Digital Operational Resilience Law (DORA) in the financial services sector.
Financial services organizations face unique regulatory requirements due to the inherent sensitivity of their workloads, and Oracle has developed capabilities and practices to help financial services clients comply with DORA requirements and other key industry regulations. As part of ongoing efforts to help financial services clients conduct their due diligence, Oracle developed the document Advisory: Oracle Cloud Services and the European Outsourcing Guidelines (EBA, EIOPA, ESMA) to enable clients to evaluate OCI in the context of their outsourcing regulatory guidance. Additionally, Oracle Cloud regions, including the existing region and the upcoming region in Madrid, as well as the EU sovereign cloud region in Madrid, offer backup and disaster recovery solutions to help meet customers’ data availability and resilience needs.
“Welcome to the new public cloud region”
“Our partnership with Oracle has been fruitful for decades. We have consolidated a stronger position in the market, combining the best capabilities of both companies,” said Sergio Sánchez, Director of Operations, Network, and IT at Telefónica España. “On one hand, we continue to migrate critical parts of our infrastructure to Oracle’s cloud to be more agile in delivering innovative products and services to our customers worldwide. On the other hand, this is the third cloud region for which we have been chosen as the hosting partner, once again positioning us as leaders in the data center industry.”
“We trust Oracle to migrate our critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure while complying with local regulatory requirements. OCI provides us with a robust and secure cloud infrastructure,” said Enrique Rodríguez, Director of Technology Services at Banco Sabadell. “The arrival of Oracle’s third cloud region in Spain will open significant opportunities for us in terms of utilizing new technologies like AI in different areas of our business.”
“Naturgy is migrating a large portion of its critical data infrastructure to OCI, which we selected for its scalability, performance, and competitive pricing,” stated Rafael Blesa, General Director of Information Systems at Naturgy. “The upcoming arrival of Oracle’s third cloud region in Spain is excellent news as it will allow us to migrate critical infrastructure support systems and low-latency systems to the cloud while enhancing their security and resilience.”
“The world is undergoing an unstoppable digital transformation, and organizations everywhere must adapt to remain relevant and competitive,” said Ravin Dhalani, CIO of MASORANGE. “Cloud technologies play a critical role in the telecommunications industry, enabling providers to meet the demand for high-speed services while improving operational efficiency and productivity. We are excited about Oracle’s upcoming third cloud region in Spain, which will help us advance our innovation in OCI.”
“About Oracle Distributed Cloud”
Oracle Distributed Cloud offers the benefits of the cloud with greater control and flexibility. Oracle’s range of distributed cloud products includes:
– Public Cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serving organizations of any size, including those requiring strict EU sovereignty controls.
– Dedicated Cloud: Customers can run all OCI services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate government clouds in the US, UK, and Australia, and isolated cloud regions for US national security purposes. Each of these products provides a complete cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a sovereign cloud.
– Hybrid Cloud: OCI offers key cloud services on-premises through Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer and already manages deployments in over 60 countries.
– Multicloud: Options like Oracle Database@Azure, MySQL HeatWave on AWS and Microsoft Azure, Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allow customers to combine key capabilities from different clouds.