Casablanca: TECHz – News Desk
Oracle announces the opening of a public cloud region in Morocco, meeting the growing demand for cloud services and AI. Located in Casablanca, this cloud region will provide Moroccan enterprises, startups, and public bodies with access to Oracle’s most advanced AI and cloud computing solutions, including the latest generative and multicloud AI capabilities. N+ONE Datacenters is the hosting partner for this cloud region.
As part of its distributed cloud strategy, Oracle is deploying the Oracle Cloud region in Casablanca to support public and private organizations in the modernization of their applications and in innovation based on data, analytics and artificial intelligence. This region facilitates the migration of all types of workloads (on-premises) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), while relying on sovereign capabilities that guarantee the hosting and processing of data within national borders. This approach makes it possible to meet sovereignty requirements and ensure compliance with regulations specific to the public, government and highly regulated sectors.
Cormac Watters, Executive Vice President and General Manager, EMEA, Oracle: “The opening of our cloud region in Casablanca is a major milestone in our commitment to support Morocco’s growth and its position as a regional hub for AI and digital innovation. With Oracle Cloud Casablanca Region, we are providing organizations across Morocco and North Africa with the secure, high-performance infrastructure they need to innovate with AI and the cloud, and to compete globally.”
The Oracle Cloud Casablanca region represents a significant expansion of Oracle’s AI infrastructure in Morocco. It supports the implementation of Morocco’s “Digital Morocco 2030” government strategy and provides local stakeholders with access to Oracle’s latest AI solutions, such as OCI AI Agent Platform, OCI Generative AI Service, and Oracle AI Data Platform. Moroccan startups and investors, who make up one of the most dynamic communities in North Africa, will be able to leverage this infrastructure for AI training and inference.
In addition to the Oracle Cloud Casablanca region and the R&D center, Oracle plans to open a second public cloud region in Settat. On a continental scale, Oracle already has a cloud region in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has announced the upcoming opening of a region in Nairobi, Kenya, marking one of the fastest expansions of a hyperscaler in Africa.
Oracle is perfectly positioned to help African customers meet a variety of requirements, from privacy to sovereign AI to low latency; it is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering more than 200 cloud and AI services via a public cloud, a customer data center, a hybrid/edge or multi-cloud deployment. With more than 200 production and planned cloud regions worldwide, customers can choose the deployment model that best suits their business needs, without compromising on performance, governance, or OCI experience.
About Oracle’s Distributed Cloud
Oracle’s distributed cloud provides all the benefits of the cloud while providing greater control and flexibility. Oracle’s distributed cloud offering includes:
• Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve organizations of all sizes, including those that need to comply with stringent sovereignty requirements. See the full list of regions here.
• Dedicated Cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud services in their own data centers through the OCI Dedicated Region, while partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience through Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate government clouds for the US, UK, and Australia, as well as isolated cloud regions for national security purposes. Each of these solutions provides a comprehensive set of cloud and AI that customers can deploy as a sovereign cloud.
• Hybrid Cloud: OCI provides key on-premises cloud services through Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute Cloud@Customer in more than 60 countries. In addition, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, comprised of multiple high-performance rugged and portable equipment configurations, helps customers leverage remote AI inference at the edge.
• Multicloud: OCI is physically deployed across all hyperscalers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, to deliver low latency and natively integrated Oracle AI Database services, including Oracle AI Database@AWS, Oracle AI Database@Azure, Oracle AI, Database@Google Cloud; as well as Oracle HeatWave on AWS and Microsoft Azure. Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud enable customers to combine key capabilities across different clouds.
