Microsoft and Oracle are enhancing their cloud collaboration
During the Oracle OpenWorld 2020 event, which is currently taking place in London, the company has made several important announcements.
In particular, it announced the expansion of the partnership between Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure - the capacities of both companies in Amsterdam are now connected through a direct fiber channel, which will allow customers to use Oracle DBMS for applications in Azure while storing and processing data in the same jurisdiction. In addition, customers will have unified access control for both clouds, which simplifies deployment.
The union of the companies’ clouds on the US East Coast became the first step towards the expansion of their partnership. After Amsterdam, they are planning to make a similar move in other countries of Europe, Asia, on the West Coast, as well as within the framework of special cloud data center regions for US federal agencies. Overall, Oracle is intended to deploy new cloud regions in five countries at a time.
The company also introduced its new Oracle Cloud Data Science Platform with a focus on machine learning. It will be useful for collaborative work on the creation, training, management, and deployment of machine learning models. In particular, the platform offers automatic learning (AutoML) to select and configure the test run process for several algorithms and configurations. It checks the results for accuracy and picks the optimal model and configuration for use, which eventually speeds up the development of new models.
Finally, the company talked about the new features of Oracle Database. In particular, it has expanded the functions of “smart” automation of AutoML, improved work with PMEM (for example, Intel Optane) and in-memory tasks, introduced tables for working with the blockchain, and accelerated work with JSON.
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