The software provider aims to have data centres in 36 locations by the end of this year, in an effort to win more cloud market share from Amazon and Microsoft. (Reuters)
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The software provider aims to have data centres in 36 locations by the end of this year, in an effort to win more cloud market share from Amazon and Microsoft. (Reuters)
Talking point: Montreal is increasingly becoming a hub for tech companies’ Canadian data centres, as my colleague Murad reported last month, in part a result of Quebec’s relatively cheap electricity. While Oracle stopped disclosing its cloud revenue in 2018, the company has been making several changes to find some momentum. It cut its cloud staff by up to 15 per cent last year to refocus its vision, and hired a former Amazon Web Services (AWS) executive as its chief marketing officer. The two companies have become increasingly bitter rivals in recent years, publicly slamming each other time and again. AWS led the market as of 2018, with about a 48 per cent share, according to data from Gartner. Oracle was not one of the top five providers.
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