This weblog is co-authored by Ravi Turlapati, Head of Strategic Merchandise and Development, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
The Microsoft and Oracle partnership is targeted on giving prospects selection and eradicating the hurdles confronted when migrating mission-critical workloads to the general public cloud the place they will entry the wealthy set of know-how wanted to speed up innovation and compete extra successfully. In September, Satya Nadella and Larry Ellison introduced Oracle Database@Azure, a brand new providing that delivers Oracle database companies working on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) inside Azure datacenters and provides prospects extra flexibility in the place they run their workloads.
We’re excited to share that Oracle Database@Azure is mostly obtainable within the Azure East United States area, with extra areas coming in 2024. Now you can use Oracle database companies working on OCI {hardware} deployed in Azure knowledge facilities. This streamlines the migration of Oracle database workloads to Azure, the place you may combine and innovate with the breadth of Microsoft Cloud companies like Azure AI and our utility platform and developer companies. You’ll be capable of buy this Oracle-managed service, working on OCI inside Azure datacenters, from the Azure Market with the identical options and pricing as Oracle Exadata cloud service on OCI. And, you should utilize your present Azure and Oracle commitments, program advantages, and licenses to take action.
Exadata Database Service is the primary service to be obtainable together with help for Oracle Actual Utility Clusters (RAC), Oracle GoldenGate, and Oracle Knowledge Guard applied sciences. We plan to supply Autonomous Database Service within the close to future. Microsoft Azure is the one hyperscaler apart from OCI to supply these Oracle database companies.
Many shoppers have proven robust curiosity within the product, and the Oracle and Microsoft product groups are working diligently to increase the supply of extra areas in 2024, starting with Germany Central, Australia East, France Central, Canada Central, Brazil South, Japan East, United Kingdom South, Central United States, and South Central United States. We’ll proceed so as to add extra areas based mostly on buyer demand, and we encourage prospects to share their necessities for added areas with their Oracle or Microsoft account groups.
The advantages of Oracle databases in Azure
Oracle Database@Azure offers a number of advantages:
- Optimized efficiency and latency: Oracle database companies in Azure are designed to supply excessive ranges of efficiency, scale, safety, and availability. By working OCI databases in Azure datacenters alongside different companies in Azure, you may optimize latency and efficiency.
- Streamlined migration: You need to use acquainted and confirmed Oracle options like Oracle Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) emigrate Oracle databases as is without having for refactoring functions or databases.
- Utility modernization: You need to use the wealthy set of utility companies, improvement instruments, and frameworks obtainable in Azure to modernize your workloads and run cloud native functions with direct entry to knowledge in Oracle Database@Azure, with the identical safety and compliance throughout your complete answer.
- Knowledge and AI innovation: You may unlock knowledge insights and innovation if you apply Azure knowledge analytics and AI companies throughout your Oracle and non-Oracle knowledge and functions between assets, and deal with even mission-critical utility.
- Simplified operations: You may deploy and handle Oracle Database@Azure infrastructure by the Azure portal and use native Azure instruments to view metrics, occasions, and logs for all Oracle Database@Azure databases. You can too do database provisioning and administration by way of OCI interfaces together with entry to acquainted tooling like Knowledge Guard, GoldenGate, and others.
- Simplified buying: You should buy Oracle Database@Azure by the Azure Market and make the most of present Azure and Oracle commitments and licenses. You’ll even be eligible for Oracle Help Rewards, a program the place you may earn rewards that you should utilize to cut back your Oracle know-how license help invoice.
- Unified buyer help: You may contact both your Oracle or Microsoft help group for a unified help course of. Â
Bringing the facility of Oracle Exadata to Azure prospects
Main organizations in each business have lengthy relied on Oracle Exadata and Oracle Actual Utility Clusters (RAC) to take advantage of their knowledge and to energy mission important functions. Oracle Database@Azure prospects may have entry to Oracle RAC for top availability working on OCI {hardware}. The service will likely be deployable in a number of availability zones to make sure regional excessive availability and in cross-region pairs to help cross-geography catastrophe restoration situations.
Trusted migration and resilience
Migrating and deploying production-grade environments is simple when transferring to Oracle Database@Azure. Oracle offers confirmed database migration methods, together with automated migration options like Zero-Downtime Migration (ZDM). Oracle Database@Azure additionally helps the Oracle Most Availability Structure (MAA), which offers trusted high-availability architectures and configurations to fulfill a variety of resiliency necessities.
Getting began
We’re thrilled to supply Oracle Database@Azure as an thrilling new choice to run Oracle database companies in Azure alongside your non-Oracle workloads, and use Azure cloud companies to function, handle, and innovate throughout all of them. To study extra about Oracle Database@Azure, watch this video, or go to Oracle Database@Azure.
