Oracle to Invest 6.5B USD to Build Public Cloud Region in Malaysia
TapTechNews October 2nd news, Oracle announced that it will invest 6.5 billion US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 45.662 billion Chinese yuan) to build a public cloud region in Malaysia, which is essentially a data center network providing services for enterprise customers.
Oracle introduced that the region will include more than 150 infrastructure and SaaS services. They also plan to use NVIDIA chips to accelerate the development of generative AI and migrate mission-critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
The planned public cloud region will help Malaysian organizations modernize their applications, migrate all types of workloads to the cloud, and innovate through data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. Customers can access the OCI generative AI agent with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) functionality; accelerated computing and generative AI services.
Oracle said that its OCI supercomputer is the largest AI supercomputer on the cloud, including 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, equipped with NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NICs for RoCEv2 network or GB200 NVL72 rack solutions, using a liquid cooling system and NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand network.
In addition, Oracle will also provide more than 150 services, including Oracle Autonomous Database, HeatWave MySQL Database Service, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, OCI Kubernetes Engine, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, which can provide customers with infrastructure, platform, or SaaS services.
