Now it’s easy to migrate from on-premise to the cloud. So with that, Larry, do you want to share what you are hearing from customers?”Įllison: “Customers are very excited about this because customers like choices. And in fact, hundreds of customers today in every industry-from life sciences to manufacturing to retail-are already running their production workloads across both our cloud platforms. They can then take advantage of Azure services such as AI and analytics for deeper insights. Take for example customers who are moving tier-one mission-critical apps to Azure, which are connected to high-performance Oracle database services like Exadata. Nadella: “Yeah, that’s absolutely right, Larry, and that’s what’s so great about our partnership is that our customers don’t need to do any complex re-architecting and re-platforming to take advantage of both our companies’ services. That is, interconnecting both Microsoft Azure and Oracle OCI-the Oracle Cloud-and you stay in the Azure console and you can take that Oracle Autonomous Database and run Power BI against it for analytics, accessing Microsoft services as if they were in Oracle.” Once deployed, customers will be able to launch and manage the Oracle services they use every day from Azure so that they can manage their apps and data as a single solution, and run their most important apps across our cloud platforms seamlessly.”Įllison: “Yeah, I think both Oracle and Microsoft are excited about this whole concept of multi-cloud. And now we’re making it even easier by launching this new experience that streamlines and simplifies deployment even further with everything from cross-cloud network setup to identity management. “Two years ago, we created a first-of-its-kind offering to help our customers use the best-of-breed capabilities from Microsoft and Oracle in a single solution. It’s all about helping them improve time to value and increase agility, as well as lower costs. Every customer I speak with is focused on aligning their IT investments to scale with demand, and moving to the cloud allows them to just do that. As you know, we’ve seen customers in every industry accelerate the migration of their most mission-critical applications to the cloud. We are very excited to announce this next step in our collaboration together. Nadella: “Thanks so much, Larry, for being here and for the partnership. Here’s the transcript of their three-minute video chat, and you can also watch the video itself here. “Now it’s easy to pick the best persistent data store with the best analytic tool and use them together, regardless of who the supplier is.“Customers are very excited about this because customers like choices.”.“You can take the Oracle database and Oracle autonomous database and run Power BI against it for analytics, accessing Microsoft services as if they were in Oracle.”.“Hundreds of customers today in every industry - from life sciences to manufacturing to retail- are already running production workloads across both platforms.”.“What’s so great about our partnership is that our customers don’t need to do any complex re-architecting and re-platforming to take advantage of both our companies’ services.”.“It’s all about helping them improve time to value, increase agility, and lower their costs.”.“Every customer I speak with is focused on aligning their IT investments to scale with demand, and moving to the cloud allows them to just do that.”.“We’ve seen customers in every industry accelerate the migration of their most mission-critical applications to the cloud.”.
To my ears, the most interesting perspectives from Nadella were these: This is, I believe, the future state of what multi-cloud environments will be all about, with multi-cloud solutions no longer defined by what cloud vendors are willing to allow but rather by what customers are demanding that they do. (For more on that, please see Oracle and Microsoft Collaborate to Create Multi-Cloud Magic.) There’s no question that what Ellison and Nadella have released with this short video will reverberate well beyond their two companies because customers will, in short order, begin to demand from other cloud providers the same sort of innovative collaboration Oracle and Microsoft have agreed to provide. So, I was particularly encouraged that the three-minute exchange between Nadella and Ellison focused very heavily on customers, the challenges they’re confronting, the opportunities they’re trying to create, and why the Microsoft/Oracle multi-cloud alliance addresses those customer issues and will make life better for those businesses.