These services will be provided through a global collaboration, which will allow Telefónica Tech to provide both Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and customer support, through professional and managed services.
To support the growing demand for cloud services in Spain, Telefónica will host the future Oracle Cloud Region in Madrid in its infrastructures. The new region will be designed to provide Spanish clients, both from the public and private sectors, with a broad set of cloud services with low latency, high performance and the highest security standards. The new Cloud Region will also help customers with business continuity and help them meet their data residency and compliance requirements in the national territory. The Oracle Cloud Region in Madrid is the first Oracle region in Spain and one of seven new commercial and government cloud regions that Oracle will launch in EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America over the next six months.
Telefónica Tech has one of the broadest portfolios of managed and professional services in the cloud on the market, including IaaS – Infrastructure as a Service- and PaaS -Platform as a Service-, with the ability to provide customized solutions that meet the needs of its customers thanks to the best technologies available on the market. Telefónica Tech has a highly qualified team of more than 3,000 expert professionals with the highest certifications in cloud services and cybersecurity, who provide services to the 5.5 million B2B clients of the Telefónica Group in 175 countries.
With built-in security, superior performance, high availability, and lower costs, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a next-generation cloud infrastructure designed for mission-critical, cloud-native workloads in the enterprise space. companies and public organizations. Oracle’s hybrid and multi-cloud strategy is perfectly aligned with Telefónica’s goal of ensuring that all customer data is hosted within the country and that customers have a cloud solution that meets their data sovereignty needs .
“With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we are complementing Telefónica’s strong cloud service offering with a cloud platform that has seen strong growth in the last year, with customers around the world using it to run their most critical workloads on the go. cloud,” says Albert Triola, General Manager of Oracle Spain. “Our collaboration with Telefónica also comes at a propitious time for Spain, with the ongoing application of EU recovery funds to boost cloud adoption and business competitiveness in our country. This agreement reaffirms our commitment to providing companies and public entities in Spain a secure and scalable cloud service platform that helps accelerate the adoption of AI, Machine Learning and other new technologies in organizations of all sizes and sectors”.
“One of the key drivers for success in the cloud market is helping our clients in their digital transformation, offering a complete and differential portfolio with the support of reference partners. This agreement with Oracle will allow us to expand our services in the cloud and strengthen our strategic positioning in PaaS, as well as reinforce our value proposition for databases and middleware applications with one of the market leaders,” says María Jesús Almazor, CEO of Cybersecurity and Cloud at Telefónica Tech.
Oracle and Telefónica Spain recently announced a multi-year agreement to migrate the operator’s mission-critical business and operational systems to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and accelerate the development of new communication services for consumers and businesses.
