Microsoft has officially expanded its collaboration with Oracle to meet the growing customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure. Under the agreed terms, Oracle Database@Azure will expand to five more regions, bringing the total planned multicloud availability footprint to 15 regions across the globe. This includes areas like Central United States, Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central, France Central, Central India, Italy North, Japan East, Southeast Asia, Sweden Central, United Kingdom South, and United Arab Emirates North cloud regions. But what exactly the solution is going to do for users within these regions? Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters will make it possible for customers to simplify and accelerate migrating their Oracle databases to the cloud, This notably includes compatibility with proven migration tools, such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration. Anyway, next up, we must get into how it will provide the highest level of Oracle database performance, scale and availability, alongside feature and pricing parity with OCI. Complimenting this would be the simplicity, security and latency of a unified operating environment (datacenter) within Azure. Another detail worth a mention here refers to that consistency the solution offers when it comes to on-premises deployments of Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata. Such consistency, on its part, goes a long distance to reduce the need to rearchitect or refactor solutions. Moving on, the Oracle Database@Azure also brings an ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including the extensive set of Azure development and AI services.
“Enterprises that use offerings from multiple vendors are having a hard time moving their workloads to the cloud,” said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “Effectively CxOs need to pick the better offering and then live with the integration cost and risk going forward. The Microsoft and Oracle partnership is an innovative departure from this challenge, by allowing enterprises to even deliver their Oracle services through Azure’s console. It is no surprise that Microsoft and Oracle are now doubling down on the customer momentum and expanding their partnership with more locations.”
Hold on, we still have a few bits left to unpack, considering we still haven’t discussed how the solution in question will facilitate simple and straightforward purchases through the Azure Marketplace. Not just that, customers will also have a chance here to leverage Oracle and Microsoft licenses, commitments, and discount programs. Of course, to make the whole value proposition even more valuable, we have the assurance of a unified service and architecture that is tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the cloud. In case this wasn’t quite enough, then you can also come in expecting a combined, and therefore, a lot more efficient customer support from Oracle and Microsoft.
“We are energized by the Global 500 companies in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and more that are already utilizing Oracle Database@Azure. The increased uptick in demand and emerging and unified use cases across OCI and Microsoft Azure demonstrate just how important the multicloud deployments are for our joint customers,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
