“There should be a cloud internet,” Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison said during his keynote presentations at CloudWorld, which is being held in Las Vegas.
Sharing his vision for the future of the cloud, Ellison noted that “clouds should be interconnected,” allowing customers to mix and match multiple services from multiple clouds that best suit their respective needs.
With an eye towards the next generation of cloud technology, the Oracle co-founder also called for an end to “walled gardens” to provide companies more freedom to choose and experience the right cloud innovations for them.
A key step towards the next stage of cloud
According to Ellison, Oracle and Microsoft kick-started this vision by working together and building a high-speed connection for Oracle Database on OCI to Microsoft Azure applications.
The two cloud giants also removed data ingress and egress latencies to help improve adoption. This makes accessing data not only fast and free but also much simpler.
“If you’re an Azure user, you never have to leave the platform to connect your application to the Oracle Database on the Oracle Cloud,” explained Ellison.
In July, Oracle and Microsoft launched the Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure. With this new offering, Microsoft Azure customers can easily provision, access, and monitor enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Users can migrate or build new applications on Azure and then connect to high-performance and high-availability managed Oracle Database services such as Autonomous Database running on OCI.
Oracle and Microsoft have been partners since 2019, the two organisations deliver the Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft Azure, which enables hundreds of companies to have secure and private interconnections in 11 global regions.
Taking the multi-cloud era a step further, Oracle also announced the availability of MySQL HeatWave on Amazon Web Services (AWS) last month.
MySQL HeatWave is a service that combines OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and machine learning-based automation within a single MySQL database. With the launch, AWS users can now run transaction processing, analytics and machine learning workloads in one service.
“So, the idea again is providing customers with choices, which is key as these garden walls come tumbling down. In the end, I believe all the clouds will be interconnected and all the services will be available to customers and they will have the choice,” said Ellison.
