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Oracle has announced that its Autonomous Database is now available on Microsoft Azure. This move aims to break down the barriers between different cloud providers. Initially, this is the second Oracle Database to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, available in Microsoft Azure’s East U.S. region through the Oracle Database@Azure program, with plans to expand to more data centers in 2024. This technology helps organizations speed up app development and migrate their on-premises workloads to the cloud.
With this integration, companies using Oracle Database can access the Azure portal and relevant APIs. The system runs on Oracle’s Exadata Cloud Infrastructure using Real Application Clusters, ensuring workloads are secure, scalable, and high-performing. Companies get all the capabilities without needing to handle any maintenance.
Oracle Autonomous Database also requires fewer resources, making it more accessible to small and mid-sized businesses. It uses two ECPUs or two cores of computing, making it affordable. The database can handle various types of data, such as tabular data, documents, and vectorized data, which is useful for AI applications.
Leo Leung, Oracle’s vice president of products and strategy, highlighted that enterprises are keen to leverage this technology. The database includes built-in tools for low-code application development, data modeling, and data processing for analytics, offering rich capabilities developed over several decades.
Customers stand to gain several benefits from the Oracle-Microsoft integration:
– The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI and Azure technologies, including extensive Azure development and AI services.
– Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating Oracle databases to the cloud, compatible with tools like Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration.
– High Oracle database performance, scalability, and availability with parity in features and pricing with OCI.
– Ease, security, and low-latency to build integrated solutions with Autonomous Database and Azure services.
– Consistency with on-premises Oracle Database and Exadata deployments, minimizing the need to rearchitect solutions.
– A unified customer experience and support from Oracle and Microsoft.
– Simplified purchasing with the option to use Oracle and Microsoft licenses, commitments, and discount programs.
– Assurance of a tested and supported unified service and architecture by two trusted cloud providers.
Oracle has been collaborating with Microsoft for years to interconnect their clouds. A recent example is Oracle Database@Azure, which extends services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Azure. This unique offering addresses specific use cases requiring sub-millisecond latency by having physical infrastructures close to one another.
For business leaders, Oracle’s Autonomous Database offers significant opportunities, especially for those already using Microsoft’s cloud. Organizations can integrate their existing data into an Azure database, anonymize and vectorize it, and combine it with Azure tools like OpenAI. This allows training AI on both enterprise and public data to improve knowledge bases and customer support. The combination of high-quality responses with enterprise data in a confidential manner excites many enterprises.
Customers can access Oracle Autonomous Database through a private offer in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
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