Microsoft is expanding its partnership with Oracle to enable Oracle’s 430,000 customers to use Microsoft cloud services for their mission-critical databases. This move makes Azure the only cloud provider, other than Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, to host Oracle services. The new offering aims to ease the migration of workloads to the public cloud and open new growth potential for Fortune 100 companies.
Microsoft and Oracle Expand Partnership for Cloud Database Services
Microsoft is expanding its partnership with Oracle to bring customers’ mission-critical database workloads to Azure. This move aims to help businesses take advantage of the cloud’s flexibility, efficiency, and scale.
What’s New?
With the surge in generative AI, businesses are feeling the urgency to bring cloud services like analytics and machine learning to their data. This partnership enables Oracle’s 430,000 customers to apply the unique services of the Microsoft cloud to Oracle’s mission-critical databases. Azure is now the only cloud provider, other than Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, to host Oracle services.
“Oracle Database@Azure is our new offering to bring Oracle Database services inside Azure.”
Major Updates
Microsoft and Oracle are focusing on reducing the common hurdles customers face when migrating workloads to the public cloud. Customers can now migrate Oracle databases “as is” to OCI and deploy them in Azure alongside their current workloads in the Microsoft Cloud. This enables organizations to create new solutions and further competitive differentiation.
What’s Important to Know?
Oracle Database@Azure opens new growth potential for the 97% of Fortune 100 companies who use Oracle databases. Businesses across every industry are eager to integrate mission-critical data from line of business apps with cloud services to realize higher efficiency, reduce customer churn and create new business applications.
“Oracle Database@Azure will improve the customer experience with higher availability, enhancing security and compliance on their transactions, improving logistics and supply chain management, and more.”
Microsoft and Oracle’s engineering teams have worked closely to colocate Oracle database services on OCI, such as Exadata and related OCI hardware, into Microsoft datacenters. This combination means Oracle Database@Azure customers can migrate existing databases to OCI and deploy in Azure, enhance security by keeping apps and data on a single network, and gain optimal performance.
From the The Official Microsoft Blog
