Oracle Database@Azure Adds New Regions and Services to Meet Global Demand

Oracle announced that The Craneware Group, Vodafone, and organizations from almost every major industry in the world are selecting Oracle Database@Azure to accelerate their cloud migrations and support their most demanding and sensitive workloads. To meet rapidly growing global demand, Oracle Database@Azure is being made available in new regions across the world and new services continue to be added. Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in South America for the first time with the Brazil South region and continues to expand in Europe with Italy North. Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available in nine regions across the world with an additional 24 more regions planned by the end of 2025.

The Craneware Group, which provides software solutions and services to over 12,000 hospitals, clinics, and retail pharmacies, has selected Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure. Its end-to-end, mission-critical pharmacy SaaS application handles procurement, invoicing, pricing, inventory management, supply chain, reporting, compliance, and auditing.

“Our SaaS-based suite of applications for pharmacy-related services handles the needs of a large number of patients,” said Abhilesh Gandhi, CTO, The Craneware Group. “Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure can deliver the scale, reliability, and security we and our customers demand. Oracle’s commitment to multicloud, as well as its distributed cloud strategy are differentiators and help us plan for the future.”

Cloud migration is core to Vodafone’s IT strategy to enable its operations across Europe to further enhance the customer experience. This requires greater flexibility and industry-wide cooperation at scale.

“Oracle Databases running on Exadata have been powering mission-critical applications on our physical servers for many years,” said Pedro Sardo, technology shared services and group IT operations director, Vodafone. “With Oracle Database@Azure, we can now unify and run database applications across multiple clouds. With this expanded capability, we can continue to provide secure, resilient and high-performing digital services to our customers at scale, only now faster and more cost effectively.”

Microsoft and Oracle continue to add powerful new features and capabilities for Oracle Database@Azure.

With the addition of Brazil South and Italy North, Oracle Database@Azure is now available in nine regions—Australia East, Brazil South, Canada Central, East US, France Central, Germany West Central, Italy North, UK South, and US West (DR).

In addition, the service is planned to be available in 24 more regions by the end of 2025. This includes Central India, Central US, Japan East, North Europe, Southeast Asia, South Central US, Spain Central, Sweden Central, United Arab Emirates North, US East 2, West Europe, West US 2, and West US 3, as well as eleven disaster recovery-only Azure regions. The disaster recovery regions include Australia East (DR), Brazil Southeast (DR), Canada East (DR), France South (DR), Germany North (DR), Japan West (DR), North Central US (DR), South India (DR), Sweden South (DR), United Arab Emirates Central (DR), and UK West (DR).

Customers can purchase Oracle Database@Azure through the Azure Marketplace. They can use existing Azure commitments and discount programs, and their Oracle license benefits such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support Rewards. Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service are available with custom quotes via private offer. Oracle Autonomous Database is also available as pay-as-you-go, giving customers the flexibility to deploy a fully managed database in minutes.

With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters, customers benefit from:

“More and more customers are seeing the value and flexibility that Oracle Database@Azure delivers for their most critical workloads,” said Karan Batta, senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “To meet growing global demand and increase the flexibility, availability, and resiliency that Oracle Database@Azure can provide to customers, we are working closely with Microsoft to make it available in more regions around the world and add new services.”

“To meet the diverse needs of modern enterprises, we continue to make Oracle Database@Azure available in new regions and to add new features and capabilities,” said Brett Tanzer, vice president, Azure Product Management, Microsoft. “This collaboration with Oracle helps our customers adapt to market conditions, compete more effectively, and deliver better experiences to their customers.”

Source: Oracle media announcement