Oracle, the U.S.-based software powerhouse, has announced plans to invest more than $6.5 billion to establish a public cloud region in Malaysia. This initiative is in response to the rapidly growing demand for its Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud services within the country.
The upcoming expansion will extend Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to 12 public cloud regions across the Asia-Pacific, according to a statement made on Wednesday. The new Malaysia cloud region will include over 150 infrastructure and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, aimed at boosting the nation’s digital economy and driving AI-driven innovation.
Franco Chiam, Vice President for Cloud, Data Centre, and Future Digital Infrastructure at International Data Corporation (IDC), stated that the increasing demand for AI services has necessitated the establishment of more data centres to handle the vast amounts of data and computational power required for training and deploying AI models.
Oracle’s new public cloud region is expected to help Malaysian organisations modernise their applications, migrate various workloads to the cloud, and leverage data, analytics, and AI for innovation. Additionally, customers will have access to OCI generative AI agents with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities, along with accelerated computing and generative AI services.
The initiative aims to ensure that sovereign AI models remain within the country’s borders, featuring the OCI Supercluster, the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud. Oracle will also provide various NVIDIA AI infrastructure services, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA Omniverse, and NVIDIA DGX Cloud.
Garrett Ilg, Executive Vice President and General Manager for Japan and Asia Pacific at Oracle, emphasised Malaysia’s unique growth opportunities for organisations looking to adopt the latest digital technologies. He stated, “Our multi-billion-dollar investment reaffirms our commitment to Malaysia as a regional gateway for cloud infrastructure and a comprehensive suite of SaaS applications.”
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