Introduction After creating a VM DB System via Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) in the previous blog post, we are going to see how to connect to the database host via SSH and to the CDB and PDB via SQL*Net from an Azure virtual machine, where usually your application will be running. The Environment…
Introduction Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) automates and simplifies the Interconnect between Azure and Oracle Cloud. Additionally, it provides a Multicloud portal to create Oracle Databases with the same Azure portal experience. As of today, you can use ODSA for the following Oracle Database Cloud Services: This blog post provides a step-by-step guide to…
Introduction In previous blog posts, we talked about the benefits and considerations of multicloud. As cross-cloud network connectivity is a crucial part of multicloud deployments, this blog post discusses the options to connect Oracle Cloud to other Public Clouds. It highlights their latency, bandwidth, availability, reliability, costs, and more characteristics. Site-to-Site IPsec VPN Site-to-site Virtual…
Introduction Since the Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) has been recently announced, it has gained much traction. This comes as little surprise, as the new service offers an Oracle-managed and entirely automated way to enable multicloud solutions on Azure and OCI. But wait for a second! Microsoft and Oracle have already partnered for a…
Introduction I’m pretty sure you have already heard about the newly released Oracle Database Service for Azure (ODSA) service. If not, then you missed something. Either case, here you get a summary of the background, challenges, features, benefits, and much more about ODSA. Multicloud In previous blog posts, we talked more in detail about the…
Introduction In multicloud environments, while using resources from multiple cloud vendors, you usually deal with migrating data across the environments or keeping it on one cloud environment while accessing it from another. The Oracle Database DBMS_CLOUD PL/SQL package allows you to access data on OCI Object Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and Amazon S3 buckets or…
Introduction In multicloud environments, while using resources from multiple cloud vendors, you usually deal with migrating data across the environments or keeping it on one cloud environment while accessing it from another. The Oracle Database DBMS_CLOUD PL/SQL package allows you to access data on OCI Object Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and Amazon S3 buckets or…
Introduction In the previous blog post, we talked about the many benefits of multicloud. However, implementing a multicloud strategy is not easy for many organizations. Moving workloads to the cloud require thorough planning, effort, and considerations already. So what comes on top of that when using services from even multiple cloud service providers? This article…
Introduction Today, enterprises from every sector and industry are increasingly deploying and implementing cloud solutions to benefit from agility, simplicity, automation, consistent high performance, and low and predictable pricing, among many more other benefits. So what is driving companies to adopt a multicloud strategy? Is one cloud not sufficient? Or maybe challenging enough? Indeed, according…
New Position I’m unbelievably excited to join the Database High Availability, Scalability, and Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Product Management team at Oracle and start a new position as Product Manager for Multicloud Mission-Critical Database Deployments. In the new role, I’ll support Oracle’s customers and partners to find solutions that meet Oracle’s high availability and scalability standards for…
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