- Several years ago, when they chose to go for the cloud, most businesses decided to go with one supplier. For many, this did not work well, because in the cloud you did not get the options and the leeway you had on on-prem or in the computer room as we said in the old days, says Espen Brækken (pictured), Solution Engineer with a long tenure at Oracle both in Norway and the USA.
The above has led to less than 20 per cent of the businesses' workloads being moved to the cloud. At the same time, a recent survey from the IT analysis company Gartner shows that 81 percent of companies work with two or more cloud providers. That is one of the reasons why Oracle and Microsoft formalized the collaboration around Azure and Oracle Cloud with Interconnect in the summer of 2019. In addition, Oracle has a similar collaboration with VMware. The suppliers work together to solve the customers' needs.
With Interconnect, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud data centers are connected in multiple locations around the world with data transfer speed up to 10 Gbps. To connect data centers, well-known technologies such as FastConnect from Oracle and ExpressRoute from Microsoft are used. In practice, these technologies are similar.
In addition, Interconnect provides extremely robust SLA conditions and a clear cost picture with well-known cost figures.
For customers who use both Microsoft applications and Oracle systems, with Interconnect you get one data center for all practical purposes!
Three important advantages of the Oracle-Microsoft collaboration:
1. Innovation power. Interconnect gives businesses the opportunity to pursue solutions and services where they are, regardless of whether your strategic supplier has exactly that solution or service in its platform.