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 news Appeal court overturns $1.6bn mainframe software ‘poaching’ ruling against IBM AT&T ‘independently decided” to replace BMC software, the appeals court found. By John Leyden May 03, 2024 3 mins Mainframes Legal news IBM and AWS forge global alliance, streamlining access to AI and hybrid cloud solutions This partnership will allow businesses in 92 countries access to IBM’s software products, including data technologies and AI, directly through the AWS Marketplace. By Gyana Swain May 03, 2024 5 mins Amazon Web Services Hybrid Cloud Artificial Intelligence feature UPS delivers customer wins with generative AI The multinational shipping company enlisted LLMs to automate customer message responses, reducing agent handle time and paving the way for genAI use across the enterprise. By Paula Rooney May 03, 2024 7 mins CIO 100 Generative AI Digital Transformation feature Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros A Scrum master certification can prove you have the knowledge and competency to lead agile teams successfully. By Sarah K. White, Sharon Florentine May 03, 2024 16 mins Certifications Agile Development IT Skills 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