Microsoft Corp. and Oracle are expanding their collaboration to meet growing worldwide customer demand forOracle Database@Azure. Oracle Database@Azure will expand to five more regions, bringing the total planned multicloud availability to 15 regions worldwide.
“The launch of Oracle Database@Azure in Europe will enable customers in the region to use Oracle database services locally for the first time on OCI hardware deployed in Azure data centers,” said Erin Chapple, CVP Azure Infrastructure Product and Design at Microsoft. “Expanding our collaboration with Oracle reaffirms our shared commitment to helping customers streamline the migration of workloads to the cloud, enabling them to combine the best of what Oracle has to offer with Microsoft’s extensive cloud services such as Azure AI, leading to increased innovation in their business.”
“As we strive to meet the tremendous global customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure, today we are announcing the expansion of our coverage to five additional regions,” said Karan Batta , senior vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. used by 500 companies in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and more.Increased demand and emerging and unified use cases of OCI and Microsoft Azure demonstrate the importance of expanded cloud deployment to our mutual customers coverage.”
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Customers can order Oracle Database@Azure services in the Microsoft Azure Germany West Central region, served from Frankfurt. This region marks the debut of Oracle Database@Azure in Europe and the second region overall, following Microsoft Azure East US general availability announcement in December 2023.
To meet growing customer demand, the service will be further expanded to the following cloud regions this year: Eastern Australia, Southern Brazil, Central Canada, Central France, Central India, Northern Italy, Eastern Japan, Southeast Asia, Central Sweden, Southern Great Britain, Central United States, South Central United States, and Northern United Arab Emirates.
“Enterprises that use multiple vendor offerings are struggling to move workloads to the cloud,” noted Holger Mueller , vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. integration and with risks. The partnership between Microsoft and Oracle represents an innovative way to solve this problem, as it allows enterprises to provide Oracle services even through the Azure console. Therefore, it is not surprising that Microsoft and Oracle are now jointly supporting the development of their customers and expanding the partnership to other regions. This will enable more businesses to move their critical workloads to the cloud.”
Oracle Database@Azure services on OCI hardware in Azure data centers offer customers:
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate the migration of Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration
- The highest level of Oracle database performance, scalability and availability, along with functional and cost comparability to OCI hardware
- Simplicity, security and latency of a unified operating environment (data center) within Azure
- Behavior consistent with local deployment of Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata while reducing the need to modify the architecture or design of the solutions used
- The ability to create new cloud applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including a rich set of Azure development services and artificial intelligence services
- Unified customer experience and support from both Oracle and Microsoft
- Simplified purchasing through the Azure Marketplace and the ability to take advantage of licenses, commitments and discount programs from Oracle and Microsoft
- The certainty of using a unified service and architecture tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in cloud technology.
SOURCE: PRNewsWire