Microsoft and Oracle have announced an expansion of their joint database platform to include five more regions globally, increasing its availability for businesses on cloud journeys.
The Oracle Database@Azure service will now be available in a total of fifteen regions internationally, including a first appearance of the system in Europe.
Later this year, the service will be expanded further to meet growing demand from customers in the UK, US, Australia, Japan and Brazil, Oracle confirmed.
“We have welcomed tremendous global customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure and are therefore announcing five additional regions to the roadmap today,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Oracle Database@Azure, running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within Azure data centers, is a collaboration platform aimed at streamlining cloud migration journeys.
“Oracle Database on Azure is a unique offering that we put together, because it truly brings together the best of both worlds,” said Brett Tanzer, vice president of Azure solutions and ecosystem, at Oracle Cloud World.
“They have the best of Microsoft and the best of Oracle operating their solutions for them,” he added.
Using the service, customers gain access to simplification and acceleration options when migrating their Oracle databases to the cloud, as well as the highest levels of performance, scale and availability of Oracle databases.
If businesses are looking to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure, this platform provides access to an impressive set of Azure development services, as well as simplified purchasing through the 'Azure Marketplace'.
The unified operating environment within Azure also improves areas of security and latency for users.
Across the platform, users get access to a unified service and architecture tested and supported by “two of the most trusted names in the cloud.”
Companies will see better migration and integration to the cloud
As Microsoft and Azure continue to roll out this collaborative product, businesses in these newly enhanced regions will benefit from access to the platform to aid cloud projects.
Companies that use multi-vendor offerings typically find it difficult to move workloads to the cloud, said Constellation Research principal analyst Holger Mueller, and often end up dealing with high integration costs.
“The partnership between Microsoft and Oracle is an innovative solution to this challenge, allowing enterprises to even deliver their Oracle services through the Azure console,” Mueller said.
“This will give more companies the opportunity to move their mission-critical workloads to the cloud,” he added.
With the recently announced extension of this platform, more customers will have access to these business benefits.
“Customers have been knocking down doors and asking us… to deliver the capacity so they can get started and we're excited to do that,” Tanzer said.
