Oracle Expands Oracle Database@Azure offering

Oracle has expanded its Oracle Database@Azure offering. The company has now made its Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure available in these @Azure regions. The company has also added a new location to the offering at Microsoft Azure's East US 2 region, bringing the total regions to 14, with 18 more planned to be deployed this year. Of those, around four or five will be in Europe.

"We designed Exascale Infrastructure to deliver Exadata's powerful capabilities in a multi-tenant, hyper-elastic cloud form that can be consumed by organizations of any size for all critical workloads," said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure is a key advancement in our multicloud strategy and collaboration with Microsoft that will give joint customers new opportunities for success in the cloud."

"Microsoft and Oracle's collaboration on Oracle Database@Azure continues to see strong global customer demand," said Brett Tanzer, vice president, Azure product management, Microsoft. "The addition of Oracle Exadata Exascale and Base Database Managed Services to Oracle Database@Azure gives customers of all sizes greater choice in performance, scale, and flexibility to accelerate innovation with Microsoft's AI, analytics, security, apps, and other services."