U.S. enterprise software giant Oracle will open its second data center in South Korea, betting on 40,000 enterprise customers here, as part of its ambition to bump up global data network to 36.

Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on Monday said at the company’s annual Oracle Open World conference in San Francisco that Oracle will add 20 new cloud availability regions to its existing 16 locations by the end of 2020 as part of the enterprise cloud computing giant’s new vision.

According to the latest plan, Korea will be a country with dual data centers with a second one in Chuncheon after the first location in Seoul. Each Korean client also will be able to enjoy a new Oracle free tier with no expiration, which is worth more than $30,000 a year per user.

In addition to its infrastructure expansion, Oracle made a series of individual announcements during the conference to build the autonomous cloud, showing its ambition to lead the cloud market.

Ellison said a new Oracle free tier will be added to provide “always free Oracle cloud for everybody” with up to 40GB storage each along with all Oracle tools. The free service valued at more than $30,000, according to an Oracle Korea official, will allow even small data users at businesses, schools, and government agencies to access the company’s latest enterprise software supported by artificial intelligence technology on Oracle cloud infrastructure, the company explained.

Oracle also unveiled Oracle Autonomous Linux, a second-generation cloud system, whose database is managed autonomously to ensure no human error and no data loss. The company also teased its new cloud services to be launched in 2020, revealing a plan to incorporate the high performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory into Oracle’s next-generation Oracle Exadata X8M.

By Shin Hyun-kyu and Minu Kim

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