OREANDA-NEWS. Oracle is committed to helping companies throughout Latin America embrace cloud computing to reduce IT complexities and boost productivity. As part of this effort, Oracle plans to open its new data center in Campinas, S?o Paulo in August of this year.

This state-of-the-art facility also supports growing demand for Oracle’s comprehensive cloud portfolio and was designed to help customers embrace Oracle Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. Oracle Cloud SaaS applications are best-of-breed and integrated with social, mobile, and analytic capabilities to help companies deliver the experiences customers expect, the talent to succeed, and the performance the market demands.

“This new data center in Brazil signals our commitment to helping companies in Latin America fully embrace cloud computing, modernize their business and become the leaders in their industry,” said Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. “This is great news for our customers throughout Latin America who are ready to capitalize on the region’s growing economy and take advantage of the unlimited possibilities cloud computing offers.”

Each day, Oracle Cloud supports more than 33 billion transactions and this latest data center in Latin America brings Oracle’s computing footprint to 19 data centers worldwide. Having a data center in Brazil allows Oracle to better manage the service level objectives and data governance for customers throughout Latin America. The system environment at the data center in Brazil was built using Oracle Engineered Systems to give customers high performance, and stable and secure cloud services.