Multicloud
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a comprehensive set of multicloud solutions in the form of specialized deployments, database services, extensive monitoring capabilities, and strategic partnerships to fit your organization's needs. Oracle Cloud@Customer brings the complete portfolio of cloud services into customer data centers, enabling hybrid cloud architectures.
Explore why 451 Research states that OCI’s multicloud solutions “can reduce the friction and cost of operating such diverse environments.”
Carl Olofson, lead IDC database analyst, provides an analysis of Oracle’s multicloud strategy and concludes that “Oracle and Microsoft have provided a solution that is intended to offer enterprises a way to achieve multicloud freedom.”
Multicloud is here. Are you getting the most value from it?
"Oracle is already present on other cloud platforms, has a strategic relationship with Microsoft Azure to support the running of applications in Azure with Oracle Database instances running in OCI, and may be able to offer the best method of realizing a customer's multicloud strategy." —Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC
Customers using OCI for multicloud and hybrid cloud architectures
The Unilever subsidiary improved back-office application performance by 30% with OCI- and AWS-based multicloud.
Multicloud architecture services
Learn more about OCI’s offerings to effectively connect multicloud environments.
Understanding multicloud deployments
A multicloud strategy brings the capability to distribute workloads between various computing infrastructures. This approach means competitive advantages for organizations across industries, including cost savings, reduced barriers to innovation, stronger disaster mitigation, and business continuity planning.
According to a Gartner survey, approximately 81% of respondents confirmed adopting a multicloud strategy to leverage advanced capabilities across clouds. Oracle Cloud offers a comprehensive set of multicloud solutions in the form of specialized deployments, database services, extensive monitoring capabilities, and strategic partnerships to fit your organization's needs.
How to Plan for Optimal Multicloud Data Management
Use analysis from Gartner® to optimize multicloud data management with OCI.
Differentiation
- Direct connectivity with Microsoft Azure with <2ms latency and no data egress charges
- Private, physical Oracle-Microsoft cloud connection without any intermediaries
- Collaborative support model with Microsoft Azure
- 50+ FastConnect partners provide connectivity to AWS and Google Cloud
- Secure, encrypted Site to Site VPN Connections for public internet lines
- Superior reliability and performance with Oracle SD-WAN
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’s interconnect solution with Microsoft Azure
Using Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect allows customers to migrate to the cloud or to 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 as a single, unified enterprise cloud solution.
Customers are also able to 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, optimizations, and interoperability.
Resources
- Read the press release
- Azure Friday: How to setup a direct interconnection (18:45)
- Connecting Autonomous Database to Azure (48:29)
- The Oracle and Microsoft cloud partnership (Accenture)
- Testing the Oracle and Microsoft cloud connection (Accenture) (PDF)
- Connect multiple OCI VCNs with multiple Azure vNETs
- Deploying Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure Interconnect using Terraform
- Access the technical documentation
Private, high-bandwidth cloud connectivity
Oracle FastConnect joins customers 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 for that each month. Other providers charge by amount of data moved, which can be expensive and unpredictable.
FastConnect extends customers’ on-premises environment to OCI with an Oracle partner, a colocation space, or a third-party provider. With more than fifty FastConnect partners—such as AT&T Business, BT, and Verizon—customers have guaranteed responsive global access for their cloud-based workloads.
Highly available WAN connectivity
Oracle SD-WAN provides secure, reliable connectivity to OCI with optimal bandwidth across inexpensive commodity network connections. Access to applications running on Oracle Cloud may be from any internet, including Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) or FastConnect. Oracle SD-WAN eliminates a single point of failure and aggregates multiple links to provide the best possible capacity to Oracle Cloud. With Oracle SD-WAN, enterprises can benefit from internet economics, leverage high-bandwidth and inexpensive internet connections, and safely migrate applications at their own pace to Oracle Cloud.
With Oracle SD-WAN Orchestration Cloud Service, customers can manage edge devices essential to any public cloud, including OCI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. Operating SD-WAN on OCI ensures customers can securely access the service from any location and reduces the time and onsite technical skills required.
Resources
The Battle for the Cloud Has Many Fronts
Discover why most companies opt for multicloud to take advantage of expanded capabilities.
Multicloud adoption on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Browse reference architectures and use cases, validate technical requirements, and lean best practices on multicloud architectures.
Explore multicloud customer success stories
With more than 40 petabytes of data, Deutsche Bank is embracing Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer
“Oracle fits into [our] strategy and complements our existing journey. There will be applications staying in the on-premises world, and we need to invest in simplifying them. It fully supports our cloud strategy, supports consuming technology as a service, and comes with significant financial benefits.”
Bernd Leukert
Head of Technology, Data, and Innovation, Deutsche Bank
Samsung SDS starts its enterprise cloud journey with Exadata Cloud@Customer and Oracle Autonomous Database.
“We have implemented nearly 300 Exadata systems for our customers in manufacturing, financial services, construction and engineering, and public and private sector services. Aligning with our digital innovation strategy and our journey to enterprise cloud, we have now adopted the first Exadata Cloud@Customer in one of our data centers and look forward to deploying Oracle Autonomous Database.”
Dr. WP Hong
CEO, Samsung SDS
Nomura Research Institute (NRI) upgrades applications with modern cloud services while meeting local data residency requirements
“With Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, we can use Oracle Exadata as a cloud service and achieve greater agility, such as seamless expansion, while maintaining high availability at the same level as on-premises. Built in our own datacenter, it enables us to not only provide SOC2 reports based on Japanese security standards in financial industries, but it also allows us to access broader cloud services and tools provided by Oracle and further increase our business value for our customers. With Oracle's Dedicated Region, we can significantly reduce our on-premises costs and invest more in our digital transformation.”
Tomoshiro Takemoto
Senior Corporate Managing Director, NRI
Sultanate of Oman strengthens digital economy with Oracle Dedicated Region
“Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer enables a variety of use cases, from migrating Oracle ERP and CRM applications to deploying custom developed applications using Oracle Database, as well as implementing Digital Innovation Services (Blockchain, AI, Big Data) and High-Performance Computing (HPC), all while following the country regulations regarding data sovereignty.”
Said Al-Mandhari
CEO, Oman ICT Group
Leading Latin American telecommunications company runs on Cloud@Customer
“We are taking our digital transformations to the next level by moving more than 30 databases to Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer and improving security with its self-securing capabilities.”
Helder Branco
Head of IT Operations, Entel
Premier research institution uses Exadata Cloud@Customer for 5x faster performance
“In the early 1990s, there were a bunch of databases and other platforms. Oracle Database had the best database offering in the market. We selected Oracle, and we selected well. I want to work with quality tools and this is one of them.”
Leonarda Horvat
Director of Research Information Systems, Texas A&M University