Oracle to Invest More Than US$6.5 Billion in AI and Cloud Computing in Malaysia

Oracle plans to open a cloud region inMalaysia, including 150+ infrastructure and SaaS services, to help boost the country's digital economy and drive AI-fueled innovation  

Organizations acrossMalaysiacan 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 inAsia Pacificto 12 public cloud regions

AUSTIN, TexasandKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia,Oct. 2, 2024/PRNewswire/ -- To meet the rapidly growing demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services inMalaysia, Oracle today announced plans to invest more thanUS$6.5 billionto open a public cloud region in the country. The upcoming cloud region will enable Oracle customers and partners inMalaysiato leverage AI infrastructure and services and migrate mission-critical workloads toOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

The planned public cloud region will help organizations inMalaysiamodernize their applications, migrate all types of workloads to the cloud, and innovate with data, analytics, and AI. Customers can have access toOCI 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 largestAI 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, includingOracle Autonomous Database, HeatWave MySQL Database Service, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution,OCI Kubernetes Engine, andOracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite will also be available, offering customers infrastructure, platform, or SaaS services.

"We warmly welcome Oracle'sUS$6.5 billioninvestment inMalaysia, which represents yet another expansion of their 36-year footprint inMalaysia,"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 inMalaysiaunderscoresMalaysia's infrastructure readiness, and its growing position as a premier Southeast Asian destination for digital investments." 

"Malaysiaoffers unique growth opportunities for organizations looking to accelerate their expansion with the latest digital technologies,"saidGarrett Ilg, executive vice president and general manager,Japan&Asia Pacific, Oracle."Our multi-billion dollar investment affirms our commitment toMalaysiaas a regional gateway for cloud infrastructure as well as a comprehensive suite of SaaS applications deployed withinMalaysia."

"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,"saidFranco 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'spublic cloud services market is expected to grow by 27.2 percent CAGR from 2022 to 2027. The upcoming Oracle cloud region inMalaysia, therefore, signals the country's potential to become a hub for technological innovation and growth inSoutheast 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 inMalaysia, 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 withinMalaysia. 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 inMalaysiaWelcome 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 inMalaysiawill help organizations across the country harness the power of AI,"saidDennis Ang, senior director, enterprise business (ASEAN and ANZ region), NVIDIA."With the new Oracle Cloud Malaysia Region, customers inMalaysiawill 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."

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