Global organizations including The Craneware
Group and Vodafone select Oracle Database@Azure to accelerate cloud
journeys
Oracle Database@Azure is available for the
first time in South America and is
now generally available in nine Microsoft Azure regions
New services and capabilities will help
customers meet data governance and compliance requirements
AUSTIN,
Texas, Nov. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Craneware Group, Vodafone, and organizations from almost every
major industry in the world are selecting Oracle
Database@Azure to accelerate their cloud migrations and
support their most demanding and sensitive workloads. To meet
rapidly growing global demand, Oracle Database@Azure is being made
available in new regions across the world and new services continue
to be added. Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in
South America for the first time
with the Brazil South region and continues to expand in
Europe with Italy North. Oracle
Database@Azure is now generally available in nine regions across
the world with an additional 24 more regions planned by the end of
2025.
The Craneware Group's Mission-Critical Trisus® Business of
Pharmacy runs on Oracle Database@Azure
The Craneware Group, which provides software solutions and
services to over 12,000 hospitals, clinics, and retail pharmacies,
has selected Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure. Its
end-to-end, mission-critical pharmacy SaaS application handles
procurement, invoicing, pricing, inventory management, supply
chain, reporting, compliance, and auditing.
"Our SaaS-based suite of applications for pharmacy-related
services handles the needs of a large number of patients," said
Abhilesh Gandhi, CTO, The Craneware Group. "Oracle Exadata Database
Service on Oracle Database@Azure can deliver the scale,
reliability, and security we and our customers demand. Oracle's
commitment to multicloud, as well as its distributed cloud strategy
are differentiators and help us plan for the future."
Vodafone Deepens Multicloud Strategy with Oracle
Database@Azure
Cloud migration is core to Vodafone's IT
strategy to enable its operations across Europe to further enhance the customer
experience. This requires greater flexibility and industry-wide
cooperation at scale.
"Oracle Databases running on Exadata have been
powering mission-critical applications on our physical servers
for many years," said Pedro Sardo,
technology shared services and group IT operations director,
Vodafone. "With Oracle Database@Azure, we can now unify and run
database applications across multiple clouds. With this expanded
capability, we can continue to provide secure, resilient and
high-performing digital services to our customers at scale, only
now faster and more cost effectively."
New Oracle solutions and enhanced data integrations available
for Oracle Database@Azure
Microsoft and Oracle continue to add powerful new features and
capabilities for Oracle Database@Azure.
- Autonomous Database integrations with Azure: Autonomous
Database seamlessly integrates with key Azure services including
Entra ID, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code, Azure API Management
Service, and Microsoft Teams. New integrations include the option
to store database encryption keys in Azure Key Vault and accessing
SharePoint objects directly with SQL.
- Azure Resource Manager (RM)-based Terraform: Now
generally available for both Oracle Exadata Database Service and
Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle Database@Azure. With Terraform
support, provisioning and security can be automated with
declarative infrastructure that can be coded, shared, versioned,
and executed within a workflow.
- Enhanced integration with Microsoft Fabric: Open
Mirroring is now in public preview, enabling continuous data
replication and synchronization to mirror databases in Fabric with
Oracle GoldenGate. Open Mirroring keeps mirrored data synchronized
in real-time, to help ensure data is analytics-ready within
Microsoft Fabric.
- Microsoft Purview integration: Microsoft Purview
now supports Oracle Database@Azure for comprehensive data
governance and compliance capabilities that organizations can use
to manage, secure, and track data across Oracle workloads.
- Oracle Exascale Infrastructure support: Oracle plans to
provide Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure
in Oracle Database@Azure within the next 12 months. Once available,
customers of virtually any size will be able to run Exadata
Database Service with hyper-elastic scaling and pay-per-use
economics.
Oracle Database@Azure Expands Across Global
Regions
With the addition of Brazil South and Italy North,
Oracle Database@Azure is now available in nine regions —Australia
East, Brazil South, Canada Central, East US, France Central,
Germany West Central, Italy North, UK South, and US West (DR).
In addition, the service is planned to be available in 24 more
regions by the end of 2025. This includes Central India, Central US, Japan East,
North Europe, Southeast Asia, South Central US, Spain
Central, Sweden Central, United Arab Emirates North, US East 2,
West Europe, West US 2, and West
US 3, as well as eleven disaster recovery-only Azure regions. The
disaster recovery regions include Australia East (DR), Brazil
Southeast (DR), Canada East (DR), France
South (DR), Germany North (DR), Japan West (DR), North
Central US (DR), South India (DR),
Sweden South (DR), United Arab Emirates Central (DR), and UK West
(DR).
Multicloud Made for Customers
Customers can purchase
Oracle Database@Azure through the Azure Marketplace. They can use
existing Azure commitments and discount programs, and their Oracle
license benefits such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle
Support Rewards. Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata
Database Service, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous
Recovery Service are available with custom quotes via private
offer. Oracle Autonomous Database is also available as
pay-as-you-go, giving customers the flexibility to deploy a fully
managed database in minutes.
With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters,
customers benefit from:
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating their
Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven
migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration
- The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI
and Azure technologies, including the rich set of Azure development
and AI services
- Pricing parity with OCI for the highest level of Oracle
database performance, scale, and availability only possible through
Oracle Exadata engineered systems underpinning Oracle
Database@Azure
- The simplicity, security, and low latency to build integrated
solutions with Autonomous Database and Azure services
- Consistency with on-premises deployments of Oracle Database and
Oracle Exadata to reduce the need to rearchitect or refactor
solutions
- Unified customer experience and support from Oracle and
Microsoft
- Simplified purchasing and the ability to leverage Oracle and
Microsoft licenses, commitments, and discount programs
- Validated Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA)
Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers for Oracle Exadata Database
Service on Oracle Database@Azure
- The assurance of a unified service and architecture that are
tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the
cloud
"More and more customers are seeing the value and flexibility
that Oracle Database@Azure delivers for their most critical
workloads," said Karan Batta, senior
vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "To meet growing
global demand and increase the flexibility, availability, and
resiliency that Oracle Database@Azure can provide to customers, we
are working closely with Microsoft to make it available in more
regions around the world and add new services."
"To meet the diverse needs of modern enterprises, we continue to
make Oracle Database@Azure available in new regions and to add new
features and capabilities," said Brett
Tanzer, vice president, Azure Product Management, Microsoft.
"This collaboration with Oracle helps our customers adapt to market
conditions, compete more effectively, and deliver better
experiences to their customers."
About Oracle Distributed Cloud
Oracle's distributed
cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and
flexibility. Oracle's distributed cloud lineup includes:
- Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve
any size of organization, including those requiring strict EU
sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
- Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud
services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while
partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience
using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and
Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for U.S.
national security purposes. Each of these products provide a full
cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign
Cloud.
- Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services
on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute
Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60
countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which
consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable
high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI
inferencing at the edge.
- Multicloud: Options including Oracle Database@AWS,
Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, Oracle
HeatWave on AWS and Microsoft Azure, Oracle Interconnect for
Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allow
customers to combine key capabilities from across clouds.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Oracle Database@Azure
- Read about Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle
Database@Azure
- Learn more about Oracle Database services, Oracle Autonomous
Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Base
Database Service
- Learn about innovating with Oracle and Azure
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of
applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at www.oracle.com.
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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.
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