Oracle partners with TIM for cloud region

Oracle has announced plans for a second Italian cloud region in partnership with Telecom Italia (TIM), which would be the host partner for Oracle's second planned cloud region in Italy, located in Turin at the telco’s data center. Following the agreement, TIM Enterprise will also integrate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure into its portfolio, offering services to its public and private sector customers and will use OCI to migrate some of the group's internal applications to the cloud.

"We are pleased to be working with Italy's leading telecommunications provider to bring OCI to public and private sector organizations and support their migration to the cloud," said Richard Smith, EVP and general manager, EMEA cloud infrastructure, Oracle. "By adding OCI to its robust cloud service offerings, TIM Enterprise will be able to provide a cloud platform used by customers all over the world to run their most mission-critical workloads in the cloud."

Elio Schiavo, chief enterprise & innovative solutions officer, TIM added, "Our collaboration with Oracle is an important milestone for TIM Enterprise and reinforces our commitment to providing innovative, sustainable, and secure cloud solutions to public and private sector organizations in Italy. Oracle's selection of our data center network to support its new cloud region is a testament to the absolute excellence of our infrastructure, which is unique in the Italian market in terms of its reach and performance."