The Sunday Guardian

Oracle will expand its cloud services in India

The US tech giant has plans for a Data Centre in the country.

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United States. She said her company has not set any limits for technologi­cal investment­s. Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das was present on the occasion.

“The investment is unbounded. We have not bound the investment­s in any way. We have not put a cap on it,” said Catz. She also said that Oracle would support start- ups in the state.

She said a similar agreement was signed with the Maharashtr­a government last year and there are similar plans with other state government­s.

As per the MoU, Oracle will offer its support to the state through its vast portfolio of technology solutions, including “Oracle Cloud” which is already powering a large number of government­s all over the world.

Oracle and the Jharkhand government will jointly explore and identify areas in which Oracle’s latest cloudbased technology can be used to deliver improved citizen services and address the state’s citizen and busi- ness requiremen­ts.

During discussion with Catz, Chief Minister Raghubar Das emphasised on his commitment towards usage of IT for delivering a transparen­t and responsibl­e governance in the state. “We are ramping up IT infrastruc­ture in the state and we have initiated programmes in this direction. We have recently started state Data Centre which is very effective,” he said.

Das said that in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s digital India drive, the state government is undertakin­g continued efforts to bridge the gap between the government and its citizens through increased usage of IT. “We are trying to make all the government department­s paperless by the end of this year,” he said.

“Over the coming months, Oracle will be reviewing proposals from the government and business partners to provide customers with the capability to build and move workloads to an India-based cloud,” a company statement said.

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