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SES continued to fortify its cloud strategy with the signing of a new dedicated connectivity deal with one of the world’s biggest IT companies, Oracle. The contract, which SES announced on Thursday, will see the operator provide connectivity to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect.

SES, which is already a member of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN), will now have direct access to Oracle Cloud — a next-generation cloud that delivers powerful compute and networking performance and a portfolio of infrastructure and platform cloud services from application development and business analytics to data management, integration, security, artificial intelligence (AI), and blockchain.

SES said that its direct access to Oracle Cloud as a FastConnect partner is part of a strategy to offer customers high-performance, low-latency and secure connections to the leading public cloud providers. The operator will use the Cloud Direct service to connect customers to Oracle Cloud applications and services over its network of MEO and GEO satellites.

“As the only multi-orbit satellite provider with direct cloud connections to four of the top five public cloud providers, SES empowers our customers with the flexibility and options to optimize their cloud services for reach, latency, performance or other business requirements. The launch of O3b mPOWER this year will massively scale the intelligent service automation and flexibility of our Cloud Direct service and help with new cloud capabilities for customers around the world,” Sergy Mummert, Senior Vice President, Sales Global Cloud & Strategic Partnerships at SES said in a statement.