Oracle plans to open a cloud region in
Malaysia, including 150+
infrastructure and SaaS services, to help boost the country's
digital economy and drive AI-fueled innovation
Organizations across Malaysia can accelerate AI innovation with
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's high performance and built-in
security, powerful data, and distributed cloud capabilities
Upcoming cloud region to extend OCI's
footprint in Asia Pacific to 12
public cloud regions
AUSTIN,
Texas and KUALA LUMPUR,
Malaysia, Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- To meet
the rapidly growing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) and
cloud services in Malaysia, Oracle
today announced plans to invest more than US$6.5 billion to open a public cloud region in
the country. The upcoming cloud region will enable Oracle customers
and partners in Malaysia to
leverage AI infrastructure and services and migrate
mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure (OCI).
The planned public cloud region will help organizations in
Malaysia modernize their
applications, migrate all types of workloads to the cloud, and
innovate with data, analytics, and AI. Customers can have access to
OCI Generative AI Agents with retrieval-augmented generation
(RAG) capabilities; accelerated computing and generative AI
services to help keep sovereign AI models within country borders;
and OCI Supercluster, the largest AI supercomputer in the
cloud—orderable with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with
NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NICs for RoCEv2 networking or NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
rack solutions using liquid cooling and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand
networking. In addition, 150+ services, including Oracle Autonomous
Database, HeatWave MySQL Database Service, Oracle Cloud
VMware Solution, OCI Kubernetes Engine, and Oracle Fusion Cloud
Applications Suite will also be available, offering customers
infrastructure, platform, or SaaS services.
"We warmly welcome Oracle's US$6.5
billion investment in Malaysia, which represents yet another
expansion of their 36-year footprint in Malaysia," said YB Senator Tengku Datuk Seri
Utama Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, minister of investment, trade and
industry (MITI), Malaysia.
"This investment will empower Malaysian entities, especially small
and medium-sized enterprises, with innovative and cutting-edge AI
and cloud technologies to enhance their global competitiveness. It
is also a significant step towards realising the country's New
Industrial Master Plan's ambitious vision of creating 3,000 smart
factories by 2030. Oracle's decision to establish a public cloud
region in Malaysia underscores
Malaysia's infrastructure
readiness, and its growing position as a premier Southeast Asian
destination for digital investments."
"Malaysia offers unique growth
opportunities for organizations looking to accelerate their
expansion with the latest digital technologies," said Garrett Ilg, executive vice president and
general manager, Japan &
Asia Pacific, Oracle. "Our
multi-billion dollar investment affirms our commitment to
Malaysia as a regional gateway for
cloud infrastructure as well as a comprehensive suite of SaaS
applications deployed within Malaysia."
"Rapidly growing demand for AI services prompts calls for more
data centers that store large amounts of data and computational
power to train and deploy AI models," said Franco Chiam, vice president, cloud, data center
and future digital infrastructure, Asia
Pacific, IDC. "According to IDC FutureScape 'The
Infrastructure and Cloud Impact 2024 Predictions', Malaysia's public cloud services market is
expected to grow by 27.2 percent CAGR from 2022 to 2027. The
upcoming Oracle cloud region in Malaysia, therefore, signals the country's
potential to become a hub for technological innovation and growth
in Southeast Asia."
OCI Provides Customers with the Latest AI Infrastructure
Offerings and a Resilient and Scalable Cloud Foundation Running
Within Malaysia's Borders
Oracle is the only hyperscaler capable of delivering AI and a
full suite of 150+ cloud services across public, dedicated, and
hybrid cloud environments, anywhere in the world. OCI's unique
cloud architecture enables Oracle to launch more public cloud
regions faster by starting with an optimal footprint and scaling as
needed, and deploy dedicated cloud regions with hyperscale cloud
services inside customer data centers. This approach helps meet the
needs of all countries and markets without compromising cloud
capabilities, while also providing the consistent performance,
SLAs, and global pricing for which OCI has become known.
With the planned public cloud region in Malaysia, customers and partners can gain
low-latency access to cloud services to help them derive better
value from their data and securely store data and run applications
to help address regulations and requirements for data residency
within Malaysia. In addition,
OCI's sovereign AI capabilities provide customers with increased
control over where they locate their data and computing
infrastructure and how they manage it. As a result, customers can
achieve AI sovereignty by gaining the assurance that their use of
AI is aligned with digital sovereignty frameworks.
Customers in Malaysia
Welcome the Upcoming Public Cloud Region
Several NVIDIA AI infrastructure services will be available to
customers, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA Omniverse, and
NVIDIA DGX Cloud.
"NVIDIA underpins the world's largest AI models for training and
inferencing, and Oracle's continued expansion in Malaysia will help organizations across the
country harness the power of AI," said Dennis Ang, senior director, enterprise business
(ASEAN and ANZ region), NVIDIA. "With the new Oracle Cloud
Malaysia Region, customers in Malaysia will gain local access to NVIDIA's
accelerated, secure, and scalable platform for end-to-end AI
development and deployment on OCI, helping accelerate the
development of generative AI applications."
About Oracle Distributed Cloud
Oracle's distributed cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with
greater control and flexibility. Oracle's distributed cloud lineup
includes:
- Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any
size of organization, including those requiring strict EU
sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
- Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud
services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while
partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience
using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and
Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for U.S.
national security purposes. Each of these products provide a full
cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign
Cloud.
- Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services
on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute
Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60
countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which
consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable
high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI
inferencing at the edge.
- Multicloud: Options including Oracle Database@AWS,
Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, HeatWave MySQL
on AWS and Microsoft Azure, Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft
Azure, and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allow customers to
combine key capabilities from across clouds.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the Oracle Cloud Regions
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of
applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at www.oracle.com.
Future Product Disclaimer
The preceding is intended to
outline our general product direction. It is intended for
information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or
functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing
decisions. The development, release, timing, and pricing of any
features or functionality described for Oracle's products may
change and remains at the sole discretion of Oracle
Corporation.
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