Oracle deepen ties with Microsoft to launch database service for Azure

Oracle and Microsoft have expanded their partnership to provide Microsoft Azure cloud users with direct access to Oracle databases on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

The jointly developed service, which is now generally available, builds on an integration in 2019 called Oracle Interconnect for Azure and enables users to integrate workloads on Microsoft Azure with Oracle Database services on OCI.

Clay Magouyrk, Executive Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said: “There’s a well-known myth that you can’t run real applications across two clouds. We can now dispel that myth as we give Oracle and Microsoft customers the ability to test and demonstrate the value of combining Oracle databases with Azure applications.”