09/11/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/11/2024 18:53
Oracle and Microsoft are now offering Oracle Database@Azure to customers in Australia. With the services' debut in the Microsoft Azure Australia East region, customers gain all the performance, scale, and workload availability advantages of Oracle Database on OCI with the security, flexibility, and best-in-class services of Azure. To meet rapidly growing global demand, Oracle and Microsoft continue to make Oracle Database@Azure available in more new regions across the world and add new services.
Oracle and Microsoft also announced new updates to the Oracle Database@Azure solution.
Oracle Database@Azure brings these technologies, along with Oracle Exadata Database Service, including Oracle Database 23ai and Oracle Autonomous Database, running on OCI, into Azure datacentres.
Customers have a choice to deploy their Azure services with their Oracle Database services all within the same physical datacentres, including support for Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Autonomous Database, both running Real Application Clusters on Oracle Exadata. Oracle and Microsoft's joint support model provides rapid response and resolution for mission-critical workloads.
New Zealand's largest company, Fonterra, is responsible for over one third of the world's dairy exports. As an existing user of both Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Fonterra is one of the first customers for the Oracle Database@Azure service in the region.
"For Fonterra, multicloud is the present and the future. By leveraging this new solution from our two cloud partners, we can evolve our technology landscape faster and deliver a better solution to our business globally," said Scott Pyles, chief technology officer, Fonterra.
Oracle Database@Azure is now available in six Azure regions - Australia East, Canada Central, East US, France Central, Germany West Central, and UK South. To meet growing global demand, the service will soon be available in 15 more regions, including Brazil South, Central India, Central US, East US 2, Italy North, Japan East, North Europe, South Central US, Southeast Asia, Spain Central, Sweden Central, United Arab Emirates North, West Europe, West US 2, and West US 3.
"Leading organisations worldwide across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and more have shown strong interest in Oracle Database@Azure," said Stephen Bovis, regional managing director, Oracle Australia and New Zealand. "This surge in demand highlights the global and local need for business agility and multicloud capabilities. A single, unified, and fully automated database optimised for all workloads and data formats is essential to achieving this. With the launch of Oracle Database@Azure in Australia, we are now bringing the benefits of AI and multicloud deployments to our mutual customers locally."
"Expanding our collaboration with Oracle in Australia reinforces our shared commitment to delivering best-in-class solutions as well as our mutual dedication to helping local organizations streamline and advance the migration of workloads to the cloud," said Sarah Carney, national chief technology officer, Microsoft ANZ. "Oracle Database@Azure will enable customers to use Oracle Database services running on OCI in Microsoft Azure datacentres and benefit from the latest innovations in AI."
Customers can purchase Oracle Database@Azure as a completely new service or using their existing Azure commitments or discount programs. They can also leverage their existing Oracle license benefits such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support Rewards. Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service are available with custom quotes via private offer. Oracle Autonomous Database is now also available as pay-as-you-go, giving customers the flexibility to deploy a fully managed database in minutes.
With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters, customers benefit from: