Oracle Corporation has announced the general availability of its Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure within the Oracle Database@Azure platform. This development aims to provide customers with enhanced scalability, cost-efficiency, and performance for their database workloads.
The Exascale deployment option introduces a multitenant, hyper-elastic intelligent data architecture that delivers the advantages of Oracle Exadata in a cloud environment. By eliminating the need for dedicated database and storage servers, customers can experience up to 95% lower minimum infrastructure costs. This model allows users to specify the number of database server ECPUs and storage capacity required, with each database distributed across pooled storage servers to ensure high performance and availability.
Pedro Sardo, Chief Information Officer for Shared Services and Director of Group IT Operations at Vodafone, highlighted the benefits of this integration, stating that the ability to utilize Oracle Base Database Service alongside Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure within Oracle Database@Azure supports application and business continuity, simplifies cloud migration efforts, and ensures value extraction from ongoing cloud investments.
In addition to the Exascale Infrastructure, Oracle has announced that the Oracle Base Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure will be available soon. This service is designed to assist customers in running Oracle Database workloads on virtual machines, offering simplified administration and pay-as-you-go pricing models.
To meet growing customer demand, Oracle Database@Azure has expanded its availability to the Microsoft Azure East U.S. 2 region, bringing the total to 14 regions, with plans to extend to 18 additional regions within the next 12 months. Furthermore, the Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure now supports the next-generation Exadata X11M platform, which offers improved performance and scalability for database workloads.
Karan Batta, Senior Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, emphasized the significance of Exascale Infrastructure, noting that it delivers Exadata’s powerful capabilities in a multitenant, hyper-elastic cloud form that can be utilized by organizations of any size for critical workloads. He described the Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure within Oracle Database@Azure as a key advancement in Oracle’s multicloud strategy and collaboration with Microsoft, providing joint customers with new opportunities for success in the cloud.
Brett Tanzer, Vice President of Azure Product Management at Microsoft, acknowledged the strong global customer demand for Oracle Database@Azure. He stated that the addition of Oracle Exadata Exascale and Base Database Managed Services to Oracle Database@Azure offers customers of all sizes greater choice in performance, scale, and flexibility to accelerate innovation with Microsoft’s AI, analytics, security, applications, and other services.
The Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure provides elastic, pay-per-use resources, allowing customers to start with a small virtual machine cluster and minimal storage, scaling resources as needed without concern for server-based size limitations or disruptive migrations. This flexibility is particularly beneficial for organizations with varying workload demands, as it enables them to align costs with actual usage.
Oracle’s collaboration with Microsoft reflects a broader trend of partnerships among major cloud providers to offer more integrated and flexible solutions to customers. By enabling Oracle Database workloads to run seamlessly within the Azure environment, both companies aim to simplify cloud adoption and migration processes for enterprises, particularly those with complex and mission-critical database requirements.
