What is OCI in Azure?

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Customers can innovate using the best of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Microsoft Azure with seamless interoperability. This low-latency, private connection between two leading cloud providers brings flexible innovation while maximizing return on investment.

Microsoft Oracle partnership details

In today’s businesses, there is a huge chance to gain insightful information that can improve the organization’s commodities, services, and products. Likewise, a lot of businesses are moving to the cloud to benefit from its scalability, flexibility, and efficiency.

Businesses now feel a greater need to integrate analytics and machine learning into one of their most important technological environments: data, thanks to recent developments in generative AI. By the end of 2023, the database market, which increased 14.4% this year, is expected to be worth more than $100 billion, according to Gartner. Cloud database as a service is by far the biggest driver of that expansion.

The ability to effortlessly connect data sources to new and enormous scale cloud services like Azure OpenAI and Azure Kubernetes Service is a crucial factor for businesses transferring their important data environments from within the walls of their organization to the cloud.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

We are strengthening our relationship with Oracle in order to give its 430,000 customers access to the special Microsoft cloud services for their vital databases. Oracle services, such as Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Azure datacenters, are now only hosted by Azure as a cloud provider other than Oracle Cloud Infrastructure thanks to this new offering.

Azure close collaboration with Oracle is still centered on lowering the typical obstacles clients have when moving workloads to the public cloud. Our newest solution, Oracle Database Azure, brings Oracle Database services inside Azure. Organizations can develop new solutions and strengthen their competitive differentiator by enabling clients to transfer Oracle databases “as is” to OCI and deploy them in Azure alongside their present workloads in the Microsoft Cloud.

Customers from various industries, including Fidelity, PepsiCo, Vodafone, and Voya Financial, have shown interest in the solution.

The 97% of Fortune 100 organizations that use Oracle databases now have additional growth potential thanks to Oracle Database Azure. Businesses in every sector, including financial services, telecommunications, retail, and transportation, are keen to connect mission-critical data from line-of-business apps with cloud services in order to increase productivity, lower customer churn, and develop new business applications. By increasing availability, enhancing security and compliance for customer transactions, enhancing logistics and supply chain management, and more, Oracle Database Azure will enhance the customer experience.

Our engineering teams collaborated extensively to integrate Oracle database services on OCI, including Exadata and related OCI hardware, into Microsoft datacenters in order to achieve this seamless integration. Oracle Database Azure customers can migrate existing databases to OCI and deploy in Azure thanks to the combination of Oracle Exadata hardware with OCI and Azure infrastructure.

Customers can also improve security by keeping apps and data on a single network, achieve optimal performance with the same fully managed Exadata Database Service that runs in OCI, and innovate with the extensive services available in the Microsoft cloud. Because of the close connectivity, Azure clients can create and manage Oracle databases using their existing expertise from within the Azure Portal and APIs.

The Microsoft cloud is preferred by users for a variety of factors, including as its cutting-edge AI capabilities, multilayered security, and ecosystem support with thousands of partners and hundreds of products. For more than 15 years, Oracle Exadata’s high performance and availability have been a vital part of business operations, executing crucial transaction processing, analytics, machine learning, and mixed workloads. Oracle Database Azure enables businesses to harness the power of data in the cloud by fusing the greatest elements of the Microsoft cloud and Oracle technology.

At Microsoft, we think that customers should have the freedom and flexibility to select the infrastructure, clouds, and services that best suit their individual requirements. The expanded relationship with Oracle announced today opens a new chapter in our commitment to serving clients as they create new value in the cloud.

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