Oracle Offers Cloud Services To Chinese Companies

Oracle is discussing with several Chinese companies to provide cloud infrastructure services to support their global expansion, said the president of the US tech giant's Japan and Asia-Pacific business.

Photo Insert: Oracle has tied up with ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, after dropping Alibaba Cloud, the Chinese business newspaper Caixin reported last year.

In an interview with Nikkei Asia, Garrett Ilg, president of Oracle Japan and Asia Pacific, said the company is in talks with a "number of Chinese companies" with "global ambitions."

He said these companies are considering using Oracle's cloud infrastructure to expand operations outside China, Akito Tanaka reported for Nikkei Asia on Nov. 14, 2022.

Oracle has tied up with ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, after dropping Alibaba Cloud, the Chinese business newspaper Caixin reported last year.

ByteDance’s decision came amid pressure exerted by the US to stop transmitting US data to China on suspicion that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) can hijack the data.

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