Microsft and Oracle join forces allowing enterprises to accelerate through cloud

Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. come together to announce a cloud interoperability partnership, according to Arab News.

The partnership will enable customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. In addition, enterprises will be able to seamlessly connect Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud services, like Autonomous Database.

Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud and AI division commented on the importance of fostering such partnership saying: “As the cloud of choice for the enterprise, with over 95 percent of the Fortune 500 using Azure, we have always been first and foremost focused on helping our customers thrive on their digital transformation journeys.”

He adds that with Oracle’s enterprise expertise, the alliance will help their joint customers accelerate the migration of enterprise applications and databases to the public cloud.

Don Johnson, Executive Vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, elaborates on their service: “The Oracle Cloud offers a complete suite of integrated applications for sales, service, marketing, human resources, finance, supply chain, and manufacturing, plus highly automated and secure Generation 2 infrastructure featuring the Oracle Autonomous Database.”

“Oracle and Microsoft have served enterprise customer needs for decades. With this partnership, our joint customers can migrate their entire set of existing applications to the cloud without having to re-architect anything, preserving the large investments they have already made.”