Oracle has announced plans to hire nearly 2,000 employees worldwide to work on its growing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure business.
Don Johnson, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said the new roles, which included software development, cloud operations, and business operations, would support Oracle’s rapidly expanding infrastructure customer base, as the company rolled out new product innovations and rapidly opened cloud regions around the globe.
“Cloud is still in its early days with less than 20 percent penetration today, and enterprises are just beginning to use cloud for mission-critical workloads. Our aggressive hiring and growth plans are mapped to meet the needs of our customers, providing them reliability, high performance, and robust security as they continue to move to the cloud,” said Johnson.
According to him, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s portfolio has experienced significant growth, with recent product innovations such as new automated cloud security services, the launch of Autonomous Linux, and a host of new cloud data services.
He said only Oracle Gen 2 Cloud was built to run Oracle’s leading suite of enterprise cloud applications and used machine learning to deliver category-defining autonomous services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Autonomous Linux.
Additionally, he said Oracle was the only cloud infrastructure company in the world that delivered enterprise applications, which offered customers huge cost and competitive advantages and enabled them to extend their applications as they grew.
“In the past year, Oracle has opened 12 new Gen 2 Cloud regions and currently operates 16 regions globally, the fastest expansion by any major cloud provider.
“Continuing its rapid cadence of Oracle Gen 2 Cloud region launches, Oracle plans to add 20 more regions by the end of 2020, bringing the global footprint to 36 total regions. Eleven countries or jurisdictions will have region pairs that facilitate enterprise-class, multi-region, disaster-recovery strategies to better support those customers who want to store their data in-country or in-region.
“Today, Oracle is the only company delivering a complete and integrated set of cloud services and building intelligence into every layer of the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s growing talent base will ensure customers continue to benefit from best-in-class security, consistent high performance, simple predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to bring enterprise workloads to cloud quickly and efficiently,” said Johnson.