NEWS DEALS &WINS ORACLE OPENS NEW ORACLE CLOUD REGION IN CHICAGO

Oracle has unveiled the opening of an Oracle Cloud Region in Chicago, Illinois.

Continuing one the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider, Oracle’s 41st global region and fourth in the US offers customers and partners a new option to locate their infrastructure, applications and data for optimal performance and latency.

The Oracle Cloud Chicago region gives customers and partners based in the US Midwest access to a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications, innovate with data and analytics and migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to OCI.

The Chicago region will offer over 100 OCI services and applications including Oracle Autonomous Database, MySQL HeatWave,

OCI Data Science, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes and Oracle Analytics. These tools will allow organizations to harness data to uncover new business value and optimize applications.

Additionally, the Chicago region offers a focus on driving sustainable operations across the globe, supporting Oracle’s com- mitments to powering all Oracle Cloud regions with 100 percent renewable energy by 2025.

Clay Magouyrk, executive vice president, OCI, said:

“As the home to more than 20 percent of the Fortune 500, 60 percent of all US manufacturing, and the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, the US Midwest is a global innovation hub across key industries.

“These industries are increasingly seeking secure cloud services to support their need for high-speed data transfer at ultra-low latency. We are excited to open the new Chicago region to help our Midwest customers and partners easily and securely move their mission-critical workloads to the cloud.”

IBM enhances API portfolio with StepZen acquisition

IBM has acquired StepZen , the creator of a GraphQL server with unique architecture that helps developers simplify API builds.

As part of this acquisition, StepZen’s team and technology will become part of the IBM Software unit and complement development areas such as integration, API management, data fabric and data management.

StepZen’s programming results in smaller and more intuitive code, better runtime performance and faster time to value. Developers can also benefit from an easier way to build GraphQL API and StepZen’s as-a-Service model.

It follows 30 other IBM acquisitions in 2022 including Databand.

Octo and Neudesic, as IBM continues to bolster its hybrid cloud and AI capabilities.

Kareem Yusuf, senior vice president of product management and owth, IBM Software, said: “We believe StepZen’s innovative technology for GraphQL API creation complements the innovations IBM is driving in API Connect to enable businesses to build better digital experiences for their clients.”