In response to the increasing global client demand for Oracle Database@Azure, Microsoft and Oracle are broadening their partnership. With the addition of five more regions, Oracle Database@Azure will now be available in 15 planned multicloud availability footprints worldwide. Customers in Europe will be able to use Oracle Database@Azure locally for the first time.
Oracle Database@Azure orders may now be placed in the Frankfurt Microsoft Azure Germany West Central region. First introduced in the United States in December 2023, this is the first area in Europe to experience Oracle Database@Azure.
“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.”
Oracle Database@Azure - Global Expansion
This year, in response to the increasing demand from customers, the service will also be available in the cloud regions of 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.
“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.”
Oracle Database Running on Azure
With Oracle Database@Azure running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Azure data centers, clients would benefit from the following:
- Options that are flexible to ease and speed up the process of transferring their Oracle databases to the cloud, including interoperability with migration solutions that have been demonstrated to be effective, such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migrations.
- The highest level of Oracle database performance, scale and availability, along with feature and pricing parity with OCI.
- A unified operating environment (datacenter) inside Azure, which is characterized by its ease of use, security, and low latency.
- It is important to maintain consistency with on-premises installations of Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata - to eliminate the need to rearchitect or rework available solutions.
- It is possible to construct new cloud-native apps by using OCI and Azure technology, which includes the extensive collection of Azure development and artificial intelligence services.
- Oracle and Microsoft have collaborated to provide a unified customer experience and support.
- The opportunity to use Oracle and Microsoft licenses, commitments, and discount programs, as well as the simplification of the purchase process via the Azure Marketplace.
- It would provide the certainty of a unified service and architecture that has been tested and is maintained by two reputable brands in the cloud computing industry.
“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. This will give more enterprises the chance to move their mission-critical workloads to the cloud.”
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