Multicloud

Multicloud architectures allow organizations to leverage the best services from each cloud to deploy and consistently manage workloads across clouds. By linking applications running in different clouds or distributing application stacks across clouds, customers in all industries can achieve competitive advantages, with better capabilities, higher performance, enhanced disaster mitigation, and lower costs.

According to a Gartner survey, 81% of respondents confirmed their adoption of a multicloud strategy. Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive set of multicloud capabilities, including high-performance databases, high performance computing (HPC), and Oracle Fusion SaaS applications, that allow customers to develop applications faster and get the most out of their investments.

Differentiation

• Direct Microsoft Azure connectivity provides <2 ms latency with no data egress fees
• MySQL HeatWave speeds OLTP and OLAP workloads with massively parallel, in-memory performance
• More than 50 Oracle FastConnect partners for connectivity to AWS and Google Cloud
• Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database services enhance multicloud speed, scale, and reliability
• Oracle Cloud Observability solutions unify resource management across clouds
• More than 70 OCI services make developing and deploying multicloud applications fast and easy
• OCI integration services make it easier for architects and developers to connect applications and datasources, automate workflows, and centralize management across hybrid and multicloud environments.

Clearly, the establishment of this service by Oracle and Microsoft delivers a level of integration that their joint customers need. The linked OCI plus Azure environment goes beyond simple interoperability to establish a high-performance interconnected cloud world.

Carl Olofson
Research Vice President, Data Management Software, IDC

Using Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect allows customers to migrate workloads to the cloud or build new applications that leverage the best of OCI and Azure. Customers can quickly migrate on-premises applications, leverage a broader range of tools, and integrate their OCI and Azure implementations as a single, unified enterprise cloud solution.

Customers can also move interdependent enterprise applications to the cloud, deploy custom and packaged applications across OCI and Azure, and develop cloud native applications in both cloud environments. Most importantly, customers can migrate on-premises applications to the cloud while preserving application architectures, taking advantage of high-performance Oracle Autonomous Database and Exadata Database optimizations and maintaining interoperability across deployments.

Pricing for the Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect is based solely on the capacity of the ports provisioned on OCI FastConnect and Azure ExpressRoute Local Circuit. There are no additional charges for inbound or outbound bandwidth consumed.

The interconnect provides an innovative value proposition for customers of Oracle and Microsoft technologies. The solution enables customers to get the best of both worlds by running workloads on both Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure.

Roy Illsley
Chief Analyst, Omdia

Oracle FastConnect allows organizations to create multicloud environments with high bandwidth network pathways to any cloud provider. Distributed workloads with applications and databases running on OCI, AWS, or Google Cloud allow customers to combine the capability, performance, and cost advantages available from multiple cloud providers.

Customers can also use FastConnect to link on-premises private clouds directly to their OCI virtual cloud network via dedicated private, high bandwidth connections. Based on their data volume, customers simply choose an appropriate port speed and pay a consistent low price each month.

More than fifty FastConnect partners—including Equinix, Megaport, AT&T Business, BT, and Verizon—allow customers to deploy multicloud environments anywhere they’re needed.

Resources

• See Oracle FastConnect partners by region
• Understand FastConnect physical connectivity models
• Find out how to enable a split-stack architecture with OCI, Oracle FastConnect, and Equinix
• Learn how to create a multicloud environment using Megaport, Oracle FastConnect, and OCI services

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration services connect any application and data source to automate and manage end-to-end processes across clouds and on-premises environments. Digital-first engagement with customers and employees has highlighted the challenges of fragmented integration approaches for quickly implementing, changing, and upgrading your business systems.

According to a McKinsey survey, C-level executives and senior managers are three times likelier now than before the pandemic to say that at least 80 percent of their customer interactions are digital in nature.¹ But in related McKinsey research, just 16 percent of executives say their company’s digital transformations are succeeding.² These studies show the importance of having a modern, multicloud integration platform to improve customer and employee experiences while accelerating digital transformation.

Integration feature differentiation

• Prebuilt application integration and process automation for quick connectivity.
• Gain end-to-end visibility across SaaS, custom, and on-premises apps.
• No-code dataflow designer for ETL/E-LT to accelerate data science and analytics.
• Design, execute, and monitor data mesh replication and stream data processing.
• Expose your APIs for developers and partners to create new business models.
• Real-time, serverless, Apache Kafka–compatible event streaming.

We went from a situation where we basically couldn’t have done it to three months later, we fully automated the process flow.

Conny Bjorling
Head of Enterprise Architecture, Skanska

Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform provides integrated cloud capabilities to monitor and manage multicloud and on-premises environments.

A persistent problem in a multicloud environment is how to detect, diagnose, and remediate issues before users are impacted. Traditional monitoring tools aren’t equipped to address these challenges.

According to an IDC survey, 77%¹ of the IT and LOB decision makers recently polled worldwide indicate they somewhat or strongly agree that comprehensive end-user visibility and observability analytics are critical to optimizing digital infrastructures.

Observability feature differentiation

• User experience monitoring, synthetic monitoring, and distributed transaction tracing
• Logging and log analytics with machine learning
• Alarms and messages via platforms such as PagerDuty, email, and Slack
• Database resource capacity planning and forecasting models
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Service connectors for event-driven apps

With the release of the new Observability and Management solution, Oracle delivers another industry first. This end-to-end approach for on-premises and multicloud management not only clearly benefits customers but also provides an open platform for partners to plug in their offerings. The integrations with Grafana, PagerDuty, and Slack and support for standards from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation such as CloudEvents and OpenTracing demonstrate Oracle’s commitment to interoperability.

Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research

Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database services provide the high performance, scalability, and availability that enterprise applications running in multicloud environments need. Accessing Oracle database services from applications running on Microsoft Azure, AWS, and other public or private clouds allows organizations to gain the benefits of industry-leading Exadata performance for transaction processing, analytics, and mixed workloads.

Autonomous Database helps organizations simplify data management and reduce costs with automatic monitoring, tuning, scaling, patching, data protection, and security. Built-in database lifecycle automation eliminates manual management tasks and helps increase developer productivity.

More than fifty FastConnect partners—including Equinix, Megaport, AT&T Business, BT, and Verizon—allow customers to deploy multicloud environments anywhere they’re needed.

For CxOs making decisions regarding their next-generation computing platform, Oracle brings a lot to the table. With the highest identicality of cloud and on-premises products available, Oracle makes it easy to transfer workloads from on-premises environments to the cloud and vice versa.

Holger Mueller
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research

Read the Constellation Research analysis (PDF)

Differentiation

• Optimized for all database workloads, data types, and development styles
• Database IO latency of less than 19 microseconds for OLTP applications
• Hundreds of gigabytes per second of analytics and machine learning throughput
• Online scaling to hundreds or thousands of vCPUs without downtime
• Scalable storage enables the analysis of 25-PB data warehouses
• Compatibility with on-premises environments simplifies cloud moves

Resources

• Press release: Oracle scores highest in all use cases in 2021 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Cloud Database Management Systems for Operational Use Cases
• Wikibon says Autonomous Database costs 47% less than AWS (PDF)
• See what top analysts are saying about Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse
• Get started with Oracle Autonomous Database for free
• Visit the Autonomous Database web page
• Visit the Exadata Database service web page

MySQL HeatWave allows organizations to run OLTP and OLAP workloads directly from their MySQL database, eliminating the need for complex, time-consuming, and expensive data movement and integration with separate analytics databases. Its massively parallel, high-performance, in-memory query accelerator improves performance by orders of magnitude for analytics and mixed workloads, outperforming Amazon Redshift by 6.5X at half the cost, Snowflake by 7X at one-fifth the cost, and Amazon Aurora by up to 1400X at half the cost.

Organizations running applications in multicloud environments can take advantage of MySQL HeatWave’s higher performance, superior price-performance, and integrated capabilities by directly accessing it via the OCI and Azure Interconnect or Oracle FastConnect services.

We believe that MySQL HeatWave offers the best value, bar none, across the entire MySQL DB market…The solution stands out with clear and unparalleled price/performance advantages against the gauntlet of competition.

Daniel Newman
Founding Partner and Principal Analyst, Futurum Research

Read the Futurum analysis (PDF)

Differentiation

• Single database for OLTP and OLAP
• Enables real-time analytics on OLTP transactions without ETL processes
• No changes required to existing MySQL apps and BI tools
• Massively parallel, in-memory query acceleration directly from the MySQL database
• MySQL Autopilot automates achieving high query performance at scale
• Automated provisioning, parallel loading, and query plan improvement

Resources

• Read the Gartner newsletter (PDF)
• See what analysts are saying about HeatWave
• Try MySQL Database Service for free
• See the reference architectures
• Launch a workshop
• Visit the MySQL HeatWave web page