Oracle Database Now on Google Cloud

Oracle and Google Cloud have announced the general availability of Oracle Database@Google Cloud, now live in four Google Cloud regions across the U.S. and Europe. This new service allows customers to run Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) within Google Cloud datacenters in U.S. East (Ashburn), U.S. West (Salt Lake City), U.K. South (London), and Germany Central (Frankfurt). Additional regions across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America will follow in the coming months.

With Oracle Database@Google Cloud, users gain direct access to Oracle’s leading database technologies hosted in Google Cloud datacenters, enabling accelerated innovation and application development. The integration also includes support for Oracle Linux, which can now be imported via Google Cloud’s virtual disk image import process, with streamlined provisioning expected within the next year.

The partnership between Oracle and Google Cloud combines Oracle’s robust database solutions with Google Cloud’s generative AI capabilities, including Vertex AI and Gemini foundation models. This synergy empowers businesses to unify their cloud operations while maintaining feature and pricing parity with OCI.

Dun & Bradstreet’s Vice President of Enterprise Engineering, Adam Fayne, highlighted the benefits of this integration, noting how it enhances the company’s ability to process and analyze large datasets quickly and efficiently, delivering deeper insights and greater value to customers.

IDC’s Carl Olofson remarked on the strategic impact of this partnership, emphasizing that it allows customers to blend Oracle databases with Google Cloud services for innovative cloud-native applications, benefiting from a simplified, secure, and low-latency environment.

Oracle Database@Google Cloud offers various advantages, including:

– Seamless deployment and consolidation of workloads.

– Native integration with Google Cloud’s console, APIs, and monitoring tools.

– Simplified purchasing through Google Cloud Marketplace, with options for existing Oracle license benefits.

– Unified customer support from both Oracle and Google Cloud.

– High-speed private connectivity through Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud.

Karan Batta, Senior Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, praised the new service for integrating OCI’s database capabilities with Google Cloud’s infrastructure, marking a significant advancement in multicloud experiences.

Andi Gutmans, Vice President and General Manager of Databases at Google Cloud, echoed this sentiment, noting that this integration allows enterprises to more rapidly migrate to the cloud and harness transformative AI technologies like Vertex AI.

For more information on Oracle Database@Google Cloud, visit the Google Cloud Marketplace or Oracle’s website.