Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2022/07/20/oracle_microsoft_multi_cloud_database/
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The oh-so-creatively named Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure enables customers to provision, access, and monitor Oracle-hosted database services without leaving the Azure cloud dashboard.
The launch marks the latest collaboration between Oracle, cofounded by chairman Larry Ellison, and Microsoft, today run by Satya Nadella; the pair of IT titans launched an interconnect service available in 11 regions back in 2019, designed to make it easier for Azure customers to consume Oracle's public cloud services.
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“Microsoft and Oracle have a long history of working together to support the needs of our joint customers,” Corey Sanders, corporate VP of Microsoft cloud for industry and global expansion, said in a canned statement. “This partnership is an example of how we offer customer choice and flexibility as they digitally transform with cloud technology.”
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The tech giants' [4]latest service builds on this interconnect platform to automate the process of connecting workloads in the respective clouds in a way that avoids ingress and egress charges for data moving between them. Instead, customers only pay for the Azure and Oracle services they consume, the companies [5]said .
“There’s a well-known myth that you can’t run real applications across two clouds,” Clay Magouyrk, EVP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, said in a statement. “There is no need for deep skills on both of our platforms or complex configurations — anyone can use the Azure Portal to get the power of our two clouds together.”
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Deploying workloads across multiple clouds isn’t without its issues, egress charges often serve to disincentivize deployments of this kind, and network latency due to the physical distance between the target datacenters can lead to performance challenges.
Oracle and Microsoft sidestep the first by allowing customers to move data between the clouds at no cost. However the cloud providers aren’t immune to latency and the service remains limited to 11 regions where Oracle and Azure’s datacenters are located in close proximity. However, in those locations, Oracle claims customers can achieve sub-two-millisecond latency for workloads split between the clouds, at least when one of them isn’t [10]overheating anyway.
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The partnership has already attracted several high-profile customers including AT&T, Marriott International, Veritas, and Swiss testing and inspection firm SGS.
As you may recall, AT&T, which migrated its Oracle database workloads to Oracle's public cloud in 2017, penned a strategic partnership to move its 5G network core, workloads and services to Azure last year.
“As we move these workloads to the cloud, Oracle Database Service for Azure enables us to modernize these Oracle databases to services such as Autonomous Database in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, while leveraging Microsoft Azure for the application tier,” AT&T CTO Jeremy Legg explained in a statement. ®
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Re: This is silly
The article does go on to address that:
* skillset required to have knowledge of n cloud platforms
* bandwidth charges for data moving between the two
* latency
Standards (Kubernetes?) sort of go a way towards the first, the 2nd you'd have to legislate some form of interconnect rates (Cloudflare have the bandwidth alliance, these two have their own deal), the third you'll find tricky to solve through regulatory intervention
Re: This is silly
> Standards (Kubernetes?) sort of go a way towards the first, the 2nd you'd have to legislate some form of interconnect rates
Yup. The first point would also benefit from legislation, if nothing else to mitigate vendor lock in.
As for latency, that's a business decision but nothing stops providers from sharing data centres, much in the way that airlines share airports (and their entire service infrastructure) or train companies run on someone else's tracks.
Re: This is silly
Note that standards already exist. I have made the business decision to support nothing but OpenStack.
One benefit that one gets for free is that you can move stuff between public and private¹ clouds with pretty much zero additional effort.
¹ The “cloud” is a stupid name but in practice it's just a set of tools to automate server and application provisioning and configuration. It doesn't have to be, and often isn't, someone *else's* computer. Especially with OpenStack.
Re: This is silly
Only an idiot would not care about who is holding your data and processing in their hands.
And if it's not on premises, it will never, never, ever, be safe.
Re: This is silly
> run real applications across two clouds,
What part of the original quote did you fail to understand?
The comment above clearly refers to the ability to use common APIs, not to who is in possession of the data.
So now I pay rent to not one, but two ...
... companies to ensure I am no longer in control of my corporate compute infrastructure?
No thank you. I'm good.
Holy...
Are you effing kidding me?! ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?!
Screw that shit.
This is silly
> There’s a well-known myth that you can’t run real applications across two clouds,
Why should anybody even care who owns that particular computer? It is akin to not being able to call someone who is with a different phone company.
One of those cases where regulatory intervention might be required to ensure a minimum of interoperability.