Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale
Infrastructure now available
Oracle Base Database Service on Oracle
Database@Azure is coming soon
AUSTIN,
Texas, March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
today announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database
Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure. The
Exascale deployment option eliminates the need to provision
dedicated database and storage servers and gives customers the
performance, reliability, and availability of Oracle Exadata
Database Service with up to 95 percent lower minimum infrastructure
costs. Additionally, Oracle Base Database Service on Oracle
Database@Azure will be available soon to help customers run Oracle
Database workloads on virtual machines with easier administration
and pay-as-you-go pricing. To meet growing customer demand, Oracle
Database@Azure is now available in the Microsoft Azure East U.S. 2
region to bring the total to 14 available regions with 18 more
regions planned to be available in the next 12 months. Finally,
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure now
supports the next-generation Exadata X11M platform.
"Vodafone's business and applications have comprehensive
service, market, and regional configurations guided by strict
performance, scale, and functional requirements," said Pedro Sardo, CIO, Shared Services and Director,
Group IT Operations, Vodafone. "The ability to continue to utilize
Oracle Base Database Service alongside Exadata Database Service on
Dedicated Infrastructure now on Oracle Database@Azure supports us
with application and business continuity, simplifies our cloud
migration efforts, and ensures we're extracting value from our
continued investments in the cloud."
"We designed Exascale Infrastructure to deliver Exadata's
powerful capabilities in a multi-tenant, hyper-elastic cloud form
that can be consumed by organizations of any size for all critical
workloads," said Karan Batta, senior
vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Oracle Exadata
Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle
Database@Azure is a key advancement in our multicloud strategy and
collaboration with Microsoft that will give joint customers new
opportunities for success in the cloud."
"Microsoft and Oracle's collaboration on Oracle Database@Azure
continues to see strong global customer demand," said Brett Tanzer, vice president, Azure product
management, Microsoft. "The addition of Oracle Exadata Exascale and
Base Database Managed Services to Oracle Database@Azure gives
customers of all sizes greater choice in performance, scale, and
flexibility to accelerate innovation with Microsoft's AI,
analytics, security, apps and other services."
Exascale on Oracle Database@Azure Delivers Power and
Flexibility
With Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale
Infrastructure on Oracle Database@Azure, customers can provision
and manage smaller database workloads and scale as needed while
leveraging the power of Exadata. With Oracle Exadata Database
Service on Exascale Infrastructure, customers benefit from a unique
and intelligent data architecture that provides:
- Elastic, pay-per-use resources: With Exascale,
resources are completely elastic and pay-per-use, with no extra
charge for IOPS. Users only specify the number of database server
ECPUs and storage capacity they need, and every database is spread
across pooled storage servers for high performance and
availability. This reduces the cost of entry-level infrastructure
for customers using Exadata Database Service as part of Oracle
Database@Azure by up to 95 percent and enables flexible and
granular on-line scaling of resources.
- Intelligent storage cloud: Exadata Exascale's
intelligent, RDMA-capable storage cloud distributes databases
across all available storage servers and uses data aware,
intelligent Smart Scan to make thousands of CPU cores available to
speed up any database query. Exascale Storage Cloud intelligently
moves hot or frequently accessed data from disk to memory or flash,
and delivers the performance of DRAM, the IOPs of flash, and the
capacity of disks.
- Intelligent AI: Exascale uses AI Smart Scan, a
unique way to offload data and compute-intensive AI Vector Search
operations to the Exascale intelligent storage cloud. AI Smart Scan
and Exadata System Software 24ai run key vector search
operations up to 30X faster enabling customers to run
thousands of concurrent AI vector searches in multi-user
environments.
- Intelligent OLTP: Intelligent ultra-fast RDMA
communication between database servers enables high-throughput OLTP
applications to scale across Exascale Virtual Machine clusters and
support more concurrent users. The low latency provided by RDMA
communication also provides ultra-fast response times for
mission-critical transactions.
- Intelligent analytics: Unique data intelligence
automatically offloads data-intensive SQL queries to the Exascale
intelligent storage cloud, enabling extreme throughput scaling of
up to 2,880 GB/s for analytics. Automatic columnarization converts
data into an ultra-fast in-memory columnar format that
automatically uses flash caches in the Exascale intelligent storage
cloud to increase capability and performance.
- Database-aware intelligent clones: Users can use
advanced snapshot capabilities to instantly create full copies or
thin clones using the Exascale intelligent storage cloud and its
redirect-on-write technology, helping to accelerate the DevOps
operating model.
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure is
available for purchase in the Azure Marketplace with a custom quote
through a private offer or on a pay-as-you-go basis. Customers can
use existing Azure commitments, discount programs, and Oracle
license benefits, such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle
Support Rewards.
Oracle Base Database Service Coming to Oracle
Database@Azure
Oracle and Microsoft plan to make
Oracle Base Database Service available on Oracle
Database@Azure soon. Oracle Base Database Service will run
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2 versions
of 19c and 23ai on virtual machines. It will provide automated
database lifecycle management that reduces administration, low-code
application development capabilities, and independently scalable
compute and storage resources with pay-as-you-go
pricing.
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure
Now Supports Exadata X11M
Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure now
supports Oracle Exadata X11M to deliver significant performance
improvements across AI, analytics, and online transaction
processing (OLTP) compared to the previous generation. Customers
also have the choice and flexibility to use Exadata X11M's
architecture across on-premises, hybrid cloud, public cloud, and
multicloud environments.
Powerful Cloud Database Service Expands to Meet Global
Demand
Oracle Database@Azure is now available in the Azure
East U.S. 2 region. This brings the total availability to 14
regions along with Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central,
Central U.S., East U.S., France Central, Germany West Central,
Italy North, Japan East, Southeast
Asia, UK South, UK West, and West U.S.
In addition, Oracle Database@Azure is planned to be available in
18 more regions in the next 12 months. This includes Australia
Southeast, Brazil Southeast, Canada East, Central India, France
South, Japan West, Germany North, North Central US,
North Europe, South Central U.S.,
South India, Spain Central, Sweden
Central, UAE Central, UAE North, West
Europe, West U.S. 2, and West U.S. 3.
With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters,
customers benefit from:
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating their
Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven
migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration
- The ability to build new cloud-native applications using Oracle
Database, OCI and Azure technologies, including the rich set of
Azure development and AI services
- Pricing parity with OCI for the highest level of Oracle
Database performance, scale, and availability only possible through
Oracle Exadata engineered systems underpinning Oracle
Database@Azure
- The simplicity, security, and low latency to build integrated
solutions with Autonomous Database and Azure services
- Consistency with on-premises deployments of Oracle Database and
Oracle Exadata to reduce the need to rearchitect or refactor
solutions
- Unified customer experience and support from Oracle and
Microsoft
- Simplified purchasing and the ability to leverage Oracle and
Microsoft licenses, commitments, and discount programs
- Validated Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA)
Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers for Oracle Exadata Database
Service on Oracle Database@Azure
- The assurance of a unified service and architecture that are
tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the
cloud
About Oracle Distributed Cloud
Oracle's distributed
cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and
flexibility. Oracle's distributed cloud lineup includes:
- Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve
any size of organization, including many of those requiring strict
EU sovereignty controls. See the full list of
regions here.
- Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud
services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while
partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience
using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and
Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for
national security purposes. Each of these products provides a full
cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign
Cloud.
- Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services
on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute
Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60
countries. Additionally, OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure, which
consists of multiple configurations of ruggedized and portable
high-performance devices, helps customers leverage remote AI
inferencing at the edge.
- Multicloud: OCI is physically deployed within all the
hyperscale cloud providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and
Microsoft Azure, providing low latency, natively integrated Oracle
database services, including Oracle Database@AWS, Oracle
Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle HeatWave
on AWS. Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure and Oracle
Interconnect for Google Cloud allow customers to combine key
capabilities from across clouds.
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Exascale's benefits
- Learn more about Oracle Database@Azure
- Learn more about Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale
Infrastructure
- Learn more about Oracle Database services, Oracle Autonomous
Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service and Oracle Base Database
Service
About Oracle
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applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
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us at www.oracle.com.
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