At Microsoft’s Ignite 2024 event, Microsoft and Oracle announced an expanded partnership, with Oracle Database@Azure, an offering that enables organizations to run Oracle Database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Microsoft Azure datacenters now enhanced with more capabilities. The updates to Oracle Database@Azure now encompass data governance, analytics, security and AI for mission-critical enterprise data workloads.
Oracle Database@Azure will now be integrated with Microsoft Purview and will enable customers to manage, secure, and stay compliant with their Oracle data, including Oracle Exadata Service and Oracle Autonomous Database Service. Customers will have the flexibility to integrate Oracle data with other enterprise data into specific data products and set up governance using policies, controls, and data quality tools. This will allow customers to get deeper analytics and unified data governance, ensuring secure, compliant data management for smarter decisions. Public preview of Open Mirroring, a new feature that simplifies managing data updates across different sources, keeping data synced and ready for analysis in Microsoft Fabric, is also integrated with the Oracle GoldenGate integration to enable deeper, data-driven intelligence and innovation
Also announced was deeper network integration for Oracle Database@Azure with the new User Defined Routes (UDR) feature which allows customers to use Azure Firewall, third-party Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs), and secure virtual hubs to inspect traffic, meeting enterprise security needs. This will be further enhanced to enable advanced integration with Azure VNET for use in inbound Network Security Groups (NSG) for better control, connecting securely to Azure Storage and Key Vault for encryption keys through Private Link, and for enabling cross-region connections with Global VNET Peering for data replication and disaster recovery.
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Additionally, Oracle Database@Azure services are now available in nine regions including Brazil South, Italy North, Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central, East US, France Central, Germany West Central, Italy North, US West (DR) and UK South. Oracle and Microsoft are also planning to further expand their partnership to bring Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure, which will allow Azure customers to run Exadata Database Service with hyper-elastic scaling and pay-per-use economics.
