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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp () said on Monday it had added new cloud computing data centers in five countries and aims to have them in 36 locations by the end of 2020, as it races with Amazon.com () and Microsoft Corp () for market share.
舊金山(路透社)-甲骨文公司(Oracle Corp()周一表示，該公司已在5個國家增加了新的雲計算數據中心，並計劃在2020年底之前在36個地點擁有這些中心，因為該公司正在與亞馬遜(Amazon.com)和微軟(Microsoft Corp)競爭市場份額。
After a rocky start in the cloud business, Oracle, a longtime business software provider, is rolling out its second generation of cloud systems, in which it operates data centers and customers rent capacity from it.
在雲業務起步艱難之後，長期業務軟體提供商甲骨文(Oracle)正在推出其第二代雲系統，在其中運營數據中心，並向客戶租用容量。
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are the two top players with more than two-thirds of the global market in 2019, according to Forrester Research, but Oracle is trying to win customers by extending its geographical reach.
根據Forrester Research的數據，亞馬遜網絡服務(Amazon Web Services)和微軟(Microsoft)是2019年全球市場占有率超過三分之二的兩大公司，但甲骨文正試圖通過擴大其地理覆蓋範圍來贏得客戶。
Clay Magouyrk, the executive vice president of engineering in Oracle’s cloud unit, said new data privacy regulations in the European Union and elsewhere mean many businesses must retain data in the country where it is generated, making it important to offer them cloud data centers in as many places as possible.
甲骨文雲部門負責工程的執行副總裁克萊·馬古耶克(Clay Magouyrk)表示，歐盟和其他地方的新數據隱私規定意味著，許多企業必須將數據保留在數據產生的國家，因此在儘可能多的地方為他們提供雲數據中心非常重要。
Oracle’s goal is to have at least two 「regions,」 in each country where it operates, so that customers can have one primary region and one as a backup in case of disaster, he said.
他說，甲骨文的目標是在其運營的每個國家至少擁有兩個「區域」，以便客戶可以有一個主要區域，一個作為災難時的備用區域。
「Overall, the strategy is to put lots of regions around the world to give customers data sovereignty,」 he said.
他說：「總體來說，我們的戰略是在世界各地設立許多地區，賦予客戶數據主權。」
Each cloud vendor promotes its data center footprint with different terminology, but in most cases a 「region」 can have multiple data centers in physically separate locations called 「availability」 zones or domains.
每個雲供應商都使用不同的術語來提升其數據中心占用空間，但在大多數情況下，「區域」可以在物理上獨立的位置擁有多個數據中心，稱為「可用性」區域或域。
Microsoft has 56 regions.
微軟有56個地區。
Amazon has 22 regions but has 69 availability zones.
亞馬遜有22個地區，但有69個可用區。