Explore Microsoft Azure’s Offering of Oracle Database (2024)

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  “Our customer base of Fortune 100 companies and more than 600 government and transportation agencies depend on us to help streamline their business processes and end-user interactions, which makes transaction speed a top priority. With Oracle Database@Azure, we’ve been able to leverage cross-cloud low latency to improve application performance and streamline the management of our IT infrastructure. This helps us deliver solutions and services that improve clients’ operations, increase efficiencies, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience.”

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  – Mark Prout
  Chief Technology and Information Officer, Conduent, Inc.

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  “At Voya, we are focused on accelerating our technology and digital leadership to make it easier to do business with us and to improve the customer experience. This includes providing our customers with fast, reliable, and secure cloud-based capabilities. By leveraging Oracle Exadata Database Service, we are now able to achieve the same benefits in the cloud, as well as migrate applications and workloads, so we can continue to react and respond to our customers’ needs and ultimately help them achieve their financial goals.”

  – Santhosh Keshavan
  Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Voya Financial, Inc.

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  “Data is the lifeblood of any business, and the cloud is the best way to analyze it so that insights become actionable. As one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world with a market value of over US$200 billion, the ability to run our mission-critical systems and associated data in the cloud with Oracle Database@Azure gives us a scaled strategic advantage across our global operations.”

  – Magesh Bagavathi
  Senior Vice President and Global Chief Technology Officer, PepsiCo

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  “We are looking to our technology partners to support Vodafone’s strategic focus on customers, simplicity, and growth across Europe and Africa. This new offering from Oracle and Microsoft does that by enabling us to deliver innovative and differentiated digital services faster and more cost-effectively to our customers.”

  – Scott Petty
  Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone

“Microsoft and Oracle just completely redefined what it means to be multicloud. In an unprecedented and truly unexpected move, Exadata and all of the Oracle Database cloud services, including the Autonomous Databases, running on OCI, are now colocated in Azure data centers. Azure users experience directly the power and benefits of Autonomous Database without any concerns of latency and ingress/egress fees. This is a game changer and walled gardens are over.”

Marc Staimer
Senior Analyst, Wikibon

“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is now running inside of Azure, including Exadata Database and Autonomous Database, among other services. This changes the game on so many levels. Existing Oracle database customers will immediately see the value in this extended partnership offering, while competitors offering database services on Azure will find themselves in search of a new differentiator. This new service is of particular importance for AI practitioners as it quite literally brings the data right next to the AI, accelerating their ability to implement generative AI models without having to compromise on data access, security, and performance. This extension of the two companies’ earlier partnership further reconstructs industry expectations, showcasing just what a next-gen cloud should look like.”

Bradley Shimmin
Chief Analyst, AI and Analytics, Omdia

“Oracle is making history by bringing the Autonomous Database and its corresponding Exadata platforms—as well as all of the HA features such as RAC and Active Data Guard—into Microsoft Azure data centers worldwide. This transcends the boundaries and limitations of merely running the same piece of software in other clouds—it’s about also running the core architecture that the software was co-engineered with. It’s a huge win for Azure customers as they can now get Oracle’s prime database services, running on OCI, physically inside of Azure and procure it seamlessly from the Azure Marketplace—all while having their database managed by Oracle.”

Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research

“The fact that Microsoft Azure customers can now, with OCI systems running in Azure, collocate OCI-based Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata with applications running on Azure, satisfies a major unmet need for the very substantial segment of Azure users who require the full function of Oracle Database in the cloud. Exadata is the most effective platform to run Oracle Database, and this provides Azure users with the best of all possible worlds. Clearly, Oracle and Azure have embraced a true multicloud strategy for the ultimate benefit of their mutual customers, and we believe that this is the direction that all cloud providers will need to follow in order to keep pace.”

Carl Olofson
Research Vice President, Data Management Software, IDC