Oracle’s Brazil data center launch has been put on the back burner due to ‘complex’ issues including cloud setup and documentation according to BNamericas.

Oracle’s plans to move into the LATAM market were officially announced by CEO Mark Hurd last December at the company’s CloudWorld event, where Hurd also confirmed the construction of a Brazilian facility. The expansion is designed to help its customers to migrate to cloud services.

At its Oracle Day in Chile earlier this year the company confirmed the construction of the Brazil data center was on track and was due to be completed by the end of 2014.

Oracle and data sovereignty

Users in Brazil increasingly want to keep their data locally, partly from fear of interception by agencies such as the US National Security Agency (NSA). Brazil's government attempted to include a local storage directive in the Marco Civil da Internet (Internet Bill of Rights) but it was dropped from the law which was passed in March.

Despite this, Brazilian customers want data sovereignty, and Oracle's data center is designed to address this.

The Brazil facility is now expected to open in early 2015, when it will be connected to a network of 18 Oracle cloud data centers worldwide.

Oracle is building two similar sites in Germany, in Frankfurt and Munich, to address European needs for data sovereignty.

The German facilities are expected to come online by the end of 2014.