Oracle and Microsoft Strategic Alliance
A highly optimized and secure multicloud solution
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is known for supporting a wide array of IT workloads through high-performance compute power, autonomous services, integrated security, and much more. And with our partnership with Microsoft, organizations can fulfill even more of their IT objectives. OCI directly and securely connects with Azure for true interoperability between both platforms—a comprehensive, enterprise solution found only with OCI. It also supports critical Microsoft applications that include Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server. Both popular workloads can be deployed directly through Oracle Cloud Marketplace, with multiple versions available as supported, preconfigured images.
To simplify your deployment and testing of these workloads even further, OCI has developed reference architectures, including patterns for deploying a highly available SQL Server database. For those organizations looking for additional support with these workloads, Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)—a customer-focused network of qualified partners—is available. Certified partners within this community offer joint expertise in deploying both Oracle and Microsoft technologies within the cloud, including SQL Server, SharePoint, and Windows Server workloads.
Powerful support for Microsoft applications
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the ideal environment to run Microsoft applications – including Microsoft SQL Server 2019 in both Enterprise and Standard editions, SQL Server 2017 Enterprise and Standard editions, and SharePoint Server 2016 and 2019—all deployable directly from Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Demanding workloads benefit from resources such as Oracle Cloud Block Volumes—offering flexible performance up to 300K IOPS per volume—and from the isolation, scalability, and control of Oracle’ bare metal servers.
Visit Oracle Cloud MarketplaceThe OCI–Azure certification program
Certified partners within the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) offer joint expertise in deploying both Oracle and Microsoft technologies within the cloud, including SQL Server, SharePoint, and Windows Server workloads.
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Microsoft Azure Interconnect with OCI
Oracle’s partnership with Microsoft optimizes the cross-cloud experience with secure and reliable connectivity between OCI and Azure. With this partnership, get the best of both platforms while leveraging workload distribution and migration, microsecond latency across connected Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure regions, federated identity, and collaborative support.
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“Our proposal is to take the customer’s experience to a new level with more efficiency and agility, and always with the highest levels of security.”
OCI and Microsoft Azure: A one-of-a-kind partnership
Multicloud strategies are increasingly important to companies wanting to use services from multiple cloud providers while ensuring resiliency and capacity. By connecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure, organizations can now benefit from this unique combination. A one-time setup enables predictable cross-cloud performance with network speeds at less than 2-millisecond round-trip latency, no Azure ExpressRoute and OCI FastConnect ingress or egress charges, and your choice of federated identity provider.
Key benefits
A unique multicloud solution
A cross-cloud direct interconnection between OCI and Microsoft Azure delivers exclusive benefits for a highly optimized, secure, and unified experience.
Put your workloads in the cloud
OCI delivers the ability to run all your familiar Windows-based workloads in a secure, highly scalable environment.
Run Microsoft applications on OCI
SharePoint, SQL Server, and other popular Microsoft applications are supported and available via Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
The Oracle Partner Network (OPN)
OPN is a customer-focused network of certified partners offering joint expertise in deploying both Oracle and Microsoft technologies within the cloud.
Featured reference architecture: Deploy a highly available Microsoft SQL Server database
Deploy Microsoft SQL Server Always On availability groups on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to take advantage of the built-in redundancy and resiliency features of Oracle Cloud. This reference architecture includes a Microsoft SQL Server Always On availability group, bastion servers, Active Directory domain controllers, and a quorum witness host on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Leverage the Oracle-Microsoft partnership today
OCI offers highly scalable, enterprise-grade services designed to work with Microsoft technologies of all kinds. OCI cloud platform services offer security and scalability while helping organizations dramatically lower their operational cost. From the largest of enterprises to the smallest emerging startups, they all can trust OCI services to power their workloads of choice, including support for Microsoft applications.
