Powerful cloud database service now in Germany and announcing five additional cloud
regions for a total of 15 regions planned this year
REDMOND, Wash., and
AUSTIN, Texas, March 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp.
and Oracle are expanding our collaboration to meet growing customer
demand for Oracle Database@Azure around the world. Oracle
Database@Azure will expand to five more regions, which brings the
total planned multicloud availability footprint to 15 regions
globally.
"Bringing Oracle Database@Azure to Europe will enable customers in the region to
locally employ Oracle database services running on OCI hardware
deployed in Azure datacenters for the first time," said Microsoft
CVP Azure Infrastructure Product and Design Erin Chapple. "The
expansion of our collaboration with Oracle demonstrates our mutual
commitment to help customers streamline the migration of workloads
to the cloud so they can combine the best of Oracle with the
breadth of Microsoft cloud services, like Azure AI, to empower
business innovation."
"We have embraced the tremendous global customer demand for
Oracle Database@Azure and are hence announcing five additional
regions to the road map today," said Karan
Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
"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."
Customers can now place orders for Oracle Database@Azure in the
Microsoft Azure Germany West Central region in Frankfurt. This marks the debut of Oracle
Database@Azure in Europe, and the
second region after Microsoft Azure East US general availability in
December 2023.
To meet the growing customer demand this year, the service will
further run in the Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central,
France Central, Central India,
Italy North, Japan East, Southeast
Asia, Sweden Central, United Kingdom South, Central United States, South Central United
States, and United Arab Emirates North cloud regions.
"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, 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. This will give
more enterprises the chance to move their mission-critical
workloads to the cloud."
With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure
datacenters, customers benefit from:
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating their
Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven
migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration
- The highest level of Oracle database performance, scale and
availability, along with feature and pricing parity with OCI
- The simplicity, security and latency of a unified operating
environment (datacenter) within Azure
- Consistency with on-premises deployments of Oracle Database and
Oracle Exadata to reduce the need to rearchitect or refactor
solutions
- The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI
and Azure technologies, including the rich set of Azure development
and AI services
- Unified customer experience and support from Oracle and
Microsoft
- Simplified purchasing via the Azure Marketplace, and the
ability to leverage Oracle and Microsoft licenses, commitments and
discount programs
- The assurance of a unified service and architecture that are
tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the
cloud
Additional resources
- Learn more about Oracle Database@Azure
- Read more about the Oracle database services running on OCI in
Azure datacenters
- Learn more about the Oracle and Microsoft partnership
- Read the First Principles blog about powering applications with
Oracle Database@Azure
- Learn more about Oracle database services, Oracle Autonomous
Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Base Database
Service
- Learn about innovating with Oracle and Azure
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of applications plus secure,
autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud. For more information
about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at
www.oracle.com.
About Microsoft
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enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud
and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and
every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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