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The numbers confirm this trend, which on the other hand is general: Oracle's revenue from cloud services grew by 47% in the year ended in May, while the billing of software licenses - still ahead in absolute figures - closed the year with a round number of increases. : 0%. Costly Cerner Acquisition Has Opened Greater Opportunity for Oracle in Healthcare Albert Triola, general director of Oracle Spain, has more reasons to celebrate these days: the launch of a cloud region in Spain (number 42 in the world) which, directly connected to another in Germany, will function as a single sovereign cloud for the 27 member countries of the EU. The Spanish part is already operational in Madrid through a Telefónica infrastructure sharing agreement. With them, Oracle tries to respond to a very real demand: the concerns of governments and companies in regulated sectors about the location of data within the EU and how it is protected.
I know that prominent Spanish clients have been waiting for it and this news reassures them: a secure cloud region, with quality and continuity guarantees, that knows where it is physically and in which not only Oracle is Job Function Email Database involved, but also goes hand in hand with a partner like Telefónica – Triola summarizes –, and if we have insisted on doing so it is because we have analyzed it with the Spanish and European authorities to ensure that our vision of technological sovereignty corresponded with their strategies. After exceeding 46,000 million in sales, it hopes to reach 60,000 in 2026 Initiatives such as this sovereign cloud, a consequence of the GDPR (European Data Protection Regulation), mandatory since May 2018, are in tune with another profound change in public perception of Oracle.

Companies and administrations know the experience of this company that has led the database market for four decades,” he points out, “and for them we now have an autonomous database in the cloud, which no one else has, which is capable of self-managing and self-healing and is associated with our full stack crash recovery technology. If something has changed in the IT landscape, it is that more and more data is generated that influences decision making, but at the same time, the more data generated, the more problems appear.” Triola does not observe that there is a paralysis of IT investments in Spain. Although he participates, like his clients, in a reflection on the need to make spending more flexible and optimized. "No one, absolutely no one, has told me 'I don't have the budget for this, call me next year.
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