REDMOND, Wash. and REDWOOD
SHORES, Calif., June 5, 2019
/PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. on Wednesday
announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers
to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across
Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. Enterprises can now seamlessly
connect Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud
services, like Autonomous Database. By enabling customers to run
one part of a workload within Azure and another part of the same
workload within the Oracle Cloud, the partnership delivers a highly
optimized, best-of-both-clouds experience. Taken together, Azure
and Oracle Cloud offer customers a one-stop shop for all the cloud
services and applications they need to run their entire
business.
Connecting Azure and Oracle Cloud through network and identity
interoperability makes lift-and-improve migrations seamless. This
partnership delivers direct, fast and highly reliable network
connectivity between two clouds, while continuing to provide
first-class customer service and support that enterprises have come
to expect from the two companies. In addition to providing
interoperability for customers running Oracle software on Oracle
Cloud and Microsoft software on Azure, it enables new and
innovative scenarios like running Oracle E-Business Suite or Oracle
JD Edwards on Azure against an Oracle Autonomous Database running
on Exadata infrastructure in the Oracle Cloud.
"As the cloud of choice for the enterprise, with over 95% of the
Fortune 500 using Azure, we have always been first and foremost
focused on helping our customers thrive on their digital
transformation journeys," said Scott
Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud and
AI division. "With Oracle's enterprise expertise, this alliance is
a natural choice for us as we help our joint customers accelerate
the migration of enterprise applications and databases to the
public cloud."
"The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite of integrated
applications for sales, service, marketing, human resources,
finance, supply chain and manufacturing, plus highly automated and
secure Generation 2 infrastructure featuring the Oracle Autonomous
Database," said Don Johnson,
executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
"Oracle and Microsoft have served enterprise customer needs for
decades. With this partnership, our joint customers can migrate
their entire set of existing applications to the cloud without
having to re-architect anything, preserving the large investments
they have already made."
As a result of this expanded partnership, the companies are
today making available a new set of capabilities:
- Connect Azure and Oracle Cloud seamlessly, allowing customers
to extend their on-premises datacenters to both clouds. This direct
interconnect is available starting today in Ashburn (North America) and Azure US East, with plans
to expand additional regions in the future.
- Unified identity and access management, via a unified single
sign-on experience and automated user provisioning, to manage
resources across Azure and Oracle Cloud. Also available in early
preview today, Oracle applications can use Azure Active Directory
as the identity provider and for conditional access.
- Supported deployment of custom applications and packaged Oracle
applications (JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, E-Business Suite,
PeopleSoft, Oracle Retail, Hyperion) on Azure with Oracle databases
(RAC, Exadata, Autonomous Database) deployed in Oracle Cloud. The
same Oracle applications will also be certified to run on Azure
with Oracle databases in Oracle Cloud.
- A collaborative support model to help IT organizations deploy
these new capabilities while enabling them to leverage existing
customer support relationships and processes.
- Oracle Database will continue to be certified to run in Azure
on various operating systems, including Windows Server and Oracle
Linux.
"The alliance between Microsoft and Oracle is welcome news as we
accelerate Albertsons' digital transformation and leverage the full
value of the public cloud," said Anuj
Dhanda, executive vice president and chief information
officer at Albertsons Companies. "This will allow us to create
cross-cloud solutions that optimize many of our current investments
while maximizing the agility, scalability and efficiency of the
public cloud."
"As we look to bring our omnichannel experience closer together
and transform the technology platform that powers the Gap Inc.
brands, the collaboration between Oracle and Microsoft will make it
easier for us to scale and deliver capabilities across channels,"
said Sally Gilligan, chief
information officer at Gap. "The interoperability between Azure and
Oracle Cloud allows us to deploy Oracle or custom-built
applications on Azure and Oracle databases on Oracle Cloud."
"At Halliburton, we have a long history of running both Oracle
and Microsoft technologies for our most critical applications. Our
deep experience with these two strategic vendors has yielded
consistently stable and performant application deployments," said
Ken Braud, senior vice president and
CIO at Halliburton. "This alliance gives us the flexibility and
ongoing support to continue leveraging our standard architectures,
while allowing us to focus on generating business outcomes that
maximize returns for our shareholders."
Those wanting to learn more should visit
https://aka.ms/OracleOnAzure or
www.oracle.com/cloud/oci-azure.html.
About Oracle
The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite
of integrated applications for Sales, Service, Marketing, Human
Resources, Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, plus Highly
Automated and Secure Generation 2 Infrastructure featuring the
Oracle Autonomous Database. For more information about Oracle
(NYSE: ORCL), please visit us at www.oracle.com.
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information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any
contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code or
functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing
decisions. The development, release, timing and pricing of any
features or functionality described for Oracle's products may
change and remains at the sole discretion of Oracle
Corporation.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT"
@microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an
intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to
empower every person and every organization on the planet to
achieve more.
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