REUTERS: Oracle Corp plans to hire nearly 2,000 additional workers as part of an aggressive plan to roll out its cloud computing services to more locations around the world, its cloud chief told Reuters on Monday.
By the end of next year, Oracle plans to open 20 more cloud"regions" - places where Oracle operates data centers so customers can safely stash data for disaster recovery or to comply with local data storage laws. As of May 31, Oracle had some 136,000 full-time staff, of which 18,000 were employed in cloud services and license support operations.The fiercely competitive market where big businesses pay a cloud provider to handle their computing and storage tasks instead of building out their own data centers is estimated by Gartner to be worth US$38.9 billion in 2019.
Under Johnson, who joined Oracle in 2015 after seven years in Amazon's cloud unit, Oracle has built out its second generation of cloud infrastructure after a rocky first attempt.