Oracle is expanding its cloud footprint in India, building on a surge in its infrastructure revenues in the country, as enterprises move beyond pilot artificial intelligence (AI) use cases to full-scale adoption of what is now the world’s most heavily invested technology.
The firm currently operates two Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) regions in India, in addition to multi-cloud deployments within Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. It is also set to roll out Oracle services within Amazon Web Services (AWS) by April, taking its overall cloud presence in India to five regions, according to the senior vice president for Technology and Customer Strategy at Oracle Japan and Asia Pacific.
Further, Oracle is positioning itself around AI inference rather than model training as the next growth driver in enterprise AI adoption. While hyperscale providers are investing in large AI training clusters, Oracle is focusing on enterprise inference by deploying AI models closer to where business data is stored.
