Oracle CEO: Underground cloud security system 'critical' to Israel

• Published date: 13 October 2021
• Author: MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

"We thought this was absolutely critical for the country, the country's security, for the citizens of Israel, that we make that investment even before we signed up a single customer," Catz said. "We believed it was absolutely necessary because of the security profile of Israel."

She said "with more to come. I don't want to steal Eran's thunder for later this week," referring to Oracle Israel country leader Eran Feigenbaum.

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The tech giant announced in February that it was going to be the first global tech giant to open a cloud region in Israel, together with Bynet Data Communications.

A previous release by the company explained that the data center would extend over four floors and thousands of meters across at a depth of 50 m. below ground level. It is meant to provide advanced cloud services to companies and government offices in the defense, banking, insurance and technology arenas.

Catz's speech was delivered on the same day that it was released that nearly 400 Google and Amazon workers signed a letter calling on the leaders of their companies to pull out of Project Nimbus and cut all ties with the Israeli military.

Project Nimbus is Israel's project to build its own local cloud storage server centers and migrate the...