Summary: Oracle launched its interconnect service with Azure in June. At the time the service could only be obtained in Ashburn and London. In the next few quarters that will be expanded to the west of the US, Europe and Asia. As noted elsewhere, while Oracle has had some success in the SaaS market, it is a long way behind leaders in the IaaS market. It is likely that Oracle’s massive enterprise customer base will migrate their Oracle applications to the public cloud, but not so likely that Oracle’s will be the one they chose. Hence the enterprise IT stalwart’s interest in multi-cloud. A direct interconnect between two public clouds (as opposed to a connection running over the less reliable and secure public networks) could actually be quite compelling for enterprise customers. In an ideal world, enterprises would like to spread their applications over multiple clouds, for resilience purposes but it has only recently become possible through the limitations of networking in the public cloud. The sort of deployment enterprises want would take this shape: web server A on AWS cloud, web server B on Azure or Oracle with direct connectivity between the two, and then middleware and database housed in a data centre or on-premise. If Oracle can establish itself as platform B to Microsoft’s platform A that could attract a lot of attention.
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