Paris, 15th of November 2021 – Interxion, a Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR) and leading European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data center solutions, today announced it will offer customer communities present in Interxion’s Marseille campus data center, direct and secure connectivity to the Oracle Cloud Marseille Region via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect, further enhancing the value delivered to our customers on PlatformDIGITAL®.
The opening of the Oracle Cloud Marseille Region is a logical expansion to answer the growing demand from the public sector, enterprise and SMBs for hybrid cloud services. It marks Oracle’s 32nd cloud region worldwide, as part of the company's global plans to have at least 44 cloud regions by the end of 2022, continuing one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider. Interxion’s Cloud Connect solution via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect will enable private connections to multiple cloud providers. Oracle’s FastConnect will be available as part of Interxion’s Cloud Connect solution that enables private connections to multiple cloud providers.
Christophe Negrier, VP EMEA South, Technology Leader, Oracle:
“We are working with Interxion because of their ability to deliver the same high levels of security, resiliency, and performance as Oracle’s customers expect. Interxion France’s advanced CSR policy was also a key criterion in the selection process, in particular their dedication to carbon neutrality (scopes 1 and 2). In addition, Interxion’s exclusive use of renewable energy contributes to Oracle’s 100% Renewable Energy Use in all our European datacenters. We partner with Interxion to meet the data sovereignty and security requirements of our customers.”
Oracle is committed to delivering a sustainable cloud to customers leveraging innovative solutions like Interxion’s river cooling that is 30 times more energy efficient than traditional cooling systems.
This collaboration also comes as a logical expansion of the existing global relationship between Oracle and Digital Realty, based on the latest’s PlatformDIGITAL® global data center platform. Designed to enable enterprises to scale digital business, PlatformDIGITAL® provides a trusted foundation enabling customers to solve global coverage, capacity, and ecosystem connectivity needs with a single data center provider.
For Fabrice Coquio, managing director of Interxion France: “We are proud to welcome the Oracle Cloud Marseille Region and FastConnect point of presence at Interxion. It improves the value that we deliver to our customer communities by removing barriers to hybrid cloud adoption. The choice of Marseille as a critical content hub in EMEA was reinforced by our ability to help offset Oracle Cloud’s CO2 emissions. As a key partner of Oracle, we are proud to provide this level of service while supporting our enterprise customers in their digital and environmental transformation initiatives.”