Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) and Google Cloud announced a multi-year agreement to deliver next-generation sovereign cloud services in Malaysia, addressing the country's growing demand for cloud solutions.
"Google Cloud and DNeX will empower organisations with the state-of-the-art distributed cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and AI services they need to drive digital transformation on their terms," Karan Bajwa, vice president of Asia Pacific, Google Cloud, said.
Strategic partnership
The partnership entails Google Cloud to authorise DNEX to operate Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a Google Sovereign Cloud solution that operates entirely within the customer's chosen environment, as a Managed GDC Provider (MGP).
DNeX also aims to offer deployment options for Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped on-premises or within partner data centres, with flexible hardware options to address organisations' specific workload requirements.
Through GDC, DNeX also targets providing access to Vertex AI, which enables the development and deployment of machine learning (ML) and AI applications; Gemma, Google's family of open AI models; and Google Cloud's pre-trained models for speech recognition, translation, and optical character recognition (OCR).
Transformative innovation
"This unique solution will unlock possibilities for secure and transformative innovation, such as using AI and advanced analytics in delivering integrated, citizen-centric digital government services; advancing treatments for chronic health conditions; and optimising energy production in hydro or solar power plants. This will also expand DNeX's services offerings in our IT business segment to include hosting services, thereby meeting the growing demand for cloud infrastructure within Malaysia, and align with our focus on securing large-scale digitalisation projects across the public and private sectors," Tan Sri Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir Jamalullail, executive chairman, DNeX, said.
