Looking forward to a future by which clients will transfer their whole information middle workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. Oracle is collocating its Oracle database {hardware} (together with Oracle Exadata) and software program in Microsoft Azure information facilities, giving clients direct entry to Oracle database providers operating on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) by way of Azure.

“When a buyer makes use of Microsoft know-how, related to Oracle know-how, they’ll get best-in-class efficiency, reliability, and safety,” Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison stated in a press convention Thursday afternoon.

Ellison says the providing, dubbed Oracle Database@Azure, will assist lots of its clients totally migrate from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud.

“Everybody’s very excited concerning the cloud and has been speaking about it for a very long time, however really a majority of the information has not migrated from on-premise into the cloud as but, however it would,” Ellison stated. “We’re making an attempt to hasten that course of to make it simpler for purchasers to really transfer their whole information middle workload into the cloud.”

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella added that Oracle Database@Azure is not going to solely assist clients full their transition to the cloud but in addition open new AI vistas as properly.

“AI exists due to information,” he stated. “It’s good to have entry to information. And so to now have Oracle Database@Azure means we are able to take one thing like Azure OpenAI and take it to the place the information is. Whether or not it’s fine-tuning a mannequin, pre-training a mannequin, or meta prompting a mannequin requires that low latency entry to information. I feel that is the second the place information and AI come collectively to rework companies and enterprise processes.”