Oracle hosted a workshop in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia today (August 29) with focus on seamless cloud transition for Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) members.

Dozens of Oracle Partners gathered to learn about the company’s latest database cloud services that will help them migrate database from on premise to the cloud for achieving new levels of efficiency, security, and availability.

Thamer Alharbi, country managing director – Saudi Arabia, Oracle said: “Organizations in Saudi Arabia realise that cloud adoption offers them speed, value and better ROI. The workshop hosted today is in line with our commitment to further drive this interest and support our customers in their journey to the cloud.”

“At Oracle, we believe that cloud technology will play a vital role in driving Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 Economic Diversification Plan and with our completely integrated cloud platform that spans all layers of the cloud, we are uniquely poised to help organisations in Saudi Arabia transition to the cloud,” Alharbi added.

The workshop that was organized at the Oracle Partner Hub in Riyadh focused on educating the participants about configuring database on the cloud and the steps necessary to create, migrate, backup, and restore Oracle Database Cloud Services with Oracle’s public cloud offerings.

According to IDC’s FutureScape Predictions, more than a third of Saudi organizations have already invested in cloud services and the cloud market in Saudi Arabia is expected to grow 44.5 per cent year on year in 2016 to a total of $63 million. – TradeArabia News Service