The second cloud region in Monterrey, providing over 100 OCI services, is part of Oracle's plan to compete with AWS, Google and Microsoft, and cash in on enterprise interest in generative AI. Credit: Shutterstock Oracle has partnered with telecommunications service provider Telmex-Triara to open a second region in Mexico in an effort to keep expanding its data center footprint as it eyes more revenue from AI and generative AI-based workloads. Earlier this month, the company said it expects cloud revenue to grow 29% to 31% in the second quarter of 2024, driven by high demand for AI and generative AI workloads from enterprises. This demand in AI and generative AI workloads, according to co-founder CTO Larry Ellison, will sustain itself as enterprises continue feeding data to AI engines or models to keep them up-to-date or relevant, which in turn will create demand for Oracle’s offerings for model training, inferencing, and grounding. The company followed up its bet on generative AI workloads by announcing several generative AI-led offerings at its annual CloudWorld conference last week. The company, which has iterated its intent to expand its data center footprint to compete with larger cloud service providers, last year said that it was planning to invest $2.4 billion quarterly in cloud infrastructure. In December last year, Oracle launched a public cloud region in Chicago. That launch was followed by the opening of a new data center in Singapore and Serbia within months. Monterrey region to provide Telmex value-added services The new region in Mexico, in Monterrey, is part of Oracle’s distributed cloud strategy, under which the company provides a managed open source database service available across multiple clouds for transaction processing, analytics, and machine learning workloads. Oracle said that it has partnered with Telmex to formulate a joint go-to-market strategy in order to deliver OCI services along with the latter’s value-added services. Telmex is providing the data center space to host the Oracle Cloud Monterrey Region and will provide its sales force for a joint go-to-market strategy. OCI services currently being offered in the region include over 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, such as Oracle’s Autonomous Database and MySQL HeatWave, among others. The launch of the new region (mx-monterrey-1), which has one availability domain, takes Oracle’s total cloud region tally to 46. The first region in Mexico is based at Querétaro. Other data centers in the North America region include four commercial regions in the US and two such regions in Canada. The company also runs five separate government regions out of the US. Rival cloud service providers such as Google, IBM and AWS have no public cloud regions in Mexico. Microsoft’s portal claims that a new data center is being planned in Querétaro. Oracle’s Monterrey region customer includes Christus Muguerza, Copayment, Corporación Inmobiliaria Vesta, Convergencia Tecnológica de Occidente, and Quicklearning among others. Related content opinion The cyber pandemic: AI deepfakes and the future of security and identity verification Attackers have seen huge success using AI deepfakes for injection and presentation attacks – which means we’ll only see more of them. Advanced technology can help prevent (not just detect them). By Aaron Painter May 02, 2024 5 mins Artificial Intelligence Security brandpost Sponsored by Cisco Transform the modern data center: From today to the future Embrace agility, elasticity, and cognitive intelligence capabilities for a data center strategy that’s performance-ready and sustainable for the future. By Murali Gandluru May 02, 2024 4 mins Networking brandpost Sponsored by TCS and Microsoft 5 keys to optimizing ROI on your Cloud Center of Excellence 5 keys to optimizing ROI on your Cloud Center of Excellence CoE adoption is on the rise – but success means evaluating relevance, staying connected, building a strong team, continuous innovation, and transforming culture. By Tata Consultancy Services May 02, 2024 2 mins Manufacturing Industry Cloud Computing brandpost Sponsored by TCS and Microsoft Best practice advice for improving productivity while maintaining security The modern “borderless workplace” requires a new strategy. Microsoft and TCS are answering the challenge with innovation solutions. By Tata Consultancy Services May 02, 2024 1 min Manufacturing Industry Microsoft Cloud Computing PODCASTS VIDEOS RESOURCES EVENTS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe