Microsoft and Oracle Expand Cloud Partnership

Microsoft and Oracle announced today that they are expanding their partnership via a new offering called Oracle Database@Azure. It’s basically a way for customers to run Oracle’s mission-critical database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and deploy them in Microsoft Azure datacenters.

“We have a real opportunity to help organizations bring their mission-critical applications to the cloud so they can transform every part of their business with this next generation of AI,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said. “Our expanded partnership with Oracle will make Microsoft Azure the only other cloud provider to run Oracle’s database services and help our customers unlock a new wave of cloud-powered innovation.”

“Most customers already use multiple clouds,” Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison added. “Microsoft and Oracle have been working together to make it easy for those customers to seamlessly connect Azure Services with the very latest Oracle Database technology. By collocating Oracle Exadata hardware in Azure datacenters, customers will experience the best possible database and network performance. We are proud to partner with Microsoft to deliver this best-in-class capability to customers.”

The firms say that this combination will deliver the highest level of Oracle database performance, scale, and availability, along with feature and pricing parity, the simplicity, security, and latency of a single operating environment (datacenter) within Azure, the ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including Azure’s best-in-class AI services, and the assurance of an architecture that is tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the cloud.

Oracle will operate and manage the OCI services directly within Microsoft’s datacenters globally, beginning with regions in North America and Europe.

You can learn more on Microsoft’s cloud migration for Oracle workloads site, or at Oracle.