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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss the expansion of the Oracle-Microsoft multi-cloud partnership to include the Oracle Autonomous Database.
Highlights
00:14 — Oracle and Microsoft, several months ago, joined in a multi-cloud partnership. They’ve expanded that recently to include the Oracle Autonomous Database. One of the things that Oracle believes this new enhancement will yield is the opportunity for customers to accelerate the point at which they no longer have to own or manage their own data centers.
01:21 — I think Larry Ellison realizes if Autonomous Database, a cloud-native database, is going to succeed, it has to be out in the market where people are using the cloud. Sometimes that’s your Oracle Cloud, sometimes it’s others.
02:17 — Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure is now available in four of the 15 regions. And I was speaking with Oracle’s Leo Liang who said its top priority is to get that into all 15 regions by end of year. Oracle thinks that Autonomous Database is going to help developers who now won’t have to worry about managing the database. They can just get in there and create code.
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03:18 — It also could result in migrating more workloads over into the cloud. And then in the Oracle press release, senior vice president for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Karan Batta said Oracle thinks this is going to accelerate “data center exits” for customers more quickly.
04:15 — The advantages of these partnerships — Oracle and Microsoft, Oracle and Google Cloud, Oracle making its MySQL HeatWave database available on AWS — is to greatly accelerate these moves because customers are going to feel more comfortable.
