Microsoft Corp. and Oracle are expanding their collaboration to meet growing customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure around the world. Oracle Database@Azure will expand to five more regions, bringing the total planned multicloud availability to 15 regions worldwide.
“The availability of Oracle Database@Azure in Europe will enable customers in the region for the first time to locally use Oracle database services running on OCI hardware deployed in Azure data centers,” said Erin Chapple , Microsoft CVP Azure Infrastructure Product and Design. “Expanding collaboration with Oracle demonstrates our shared commitment to helping customers streamline their workload migration to the cloud so they can combine the best of Oracle with Microsoft’s wide range of cloud services, such as Azure AI, to drive enterprise innovation.”
“We’ve received tremendous global customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure, and today we’re adding five more regions to our portfolio,” said Karan Batta , senior vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Global 500 companies in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing , oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and others already using Oracle Database@Azure are powering us. The growth in demand, emerging and unified use cases across OCI and Microsoft Azure show how important multi-cloud deployments are to our joint customers.”
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Customers can now place orders for Oracle Database@Azure in the Microsoft Azure Germany West Central region in Frankfurt. This is the debut of Oracle Database@Azure in Europe and the second region after the general availability of Microsoft Azure East US in December 2023.
To meet growing customer demand this year, the service will continue to operate in the cloud regions Australia – East, Brazil – South, Canada – Central, France – Central, India – Central, Italy – North , Japan – East, Southeast Asia, Sweden – Central , United Kingdom – South, United States – Central, United States – South, Central and United Arab Emirates – North.
“Enterprises that use offerings from multiple vendors are struggling to move their workloads to the cloud,” said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. “CEOs really have to choose the better offering and then bear the integration costs and risk going forward. The partnership between Microsoft and Oracle provides an innovative departure from this challenge by allowing enterprises to even deliver their Oracle services through the Azure console. It’s no wonder that Microsoft and Oracle are now doubling down on customer momentum and expanding their partnership to multiple locations. opportunity to move your critical workloads to the cloud.”
As Oracle Database@Azure runs on OCI in Azure data centers, customers benefit from:
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate the migration of their Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration
- The highest level of performance, scale and availability of an Oracle database, along with the feature and price balance with OCI
- Simplicity, security and latency of a unified operating environment (data center) within Azure
- Consistencies with on-premises Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata deployments to reduce the need to re-architect or refactor solutions
- Capabilities to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including a rich set of Azure development services and AI services
- Unified customer experience and support from Oracle and Microsoft
- Simplified purchase through the Azure Marketplace and the possibility to use licenses, commitments and discount programs of Oracle and Microsoft
- Unified service security and architecture tested and supported by two of the most trusted brands in cloud technology.
SOURCE: PRNewsWire