Telefonica Tech and Oracle have reached a agreement to offer cloud services to its customers. Both will offer, under the same, PaaS (Platform as a Service) and applications to both companies and public organizations. The services offered will be provided through a global collaboration, which will allow Telefónica Tech to offer Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services and customer support, through professional and managed services.
With this agreement, Telefónica will host the future Oracle cloud region in Madrid in its infrastructures. The region aims to offer Spanish customers, in addition to a set of cloud services with low latency and high performance. All with high security standards.
With this region, customers who access it will have more facilities to meet their data residency requirements in national territory, as well as to comply with different regulations. Oracle’s cloud region in Madrid is the first that the company has opened in Spain, and one of the seven new ones that it will launch in the EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions in the next six months.
Telefónica Tech has a broad portfolio of managed and professional cloud services. This includes both IaaS and PaaS services, allowing you to provide customized solutions to your customers. For its part, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers cloud infrastructure for mission-critical and cloud-native workloads for companies and organizations.
Albert Atriola, General Manager of Oracle Spainhas pointed out that «With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, we are complementing Telefónica’s strong cloud service offering with a cloud platform that has seen strong growth in the past year, with customers around the world using it to run their most critical workloads in the cloud. . 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 provide companies and public entities in Spain with a secure and scalable cloud services platform that helps accelerate the adoption of AI, Machine Learning and other new technologies in organizations of all sizes and sectors”.
For its part, María Jesús Almanzor, CEO of Cybersecurity and Cloud at Telefónica Techhas highlighted that «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 leading partners. This agreement with Oracle will allow us to expand our cloud services 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.”
