In a scenario where IT operations are becoming increasingly complex, having a smart multicloud architecture is no longer optional, it’s an essential strategy to ensure flexibility, performance and resilience.
In this article, you’ll understand how the integration between Oracle and Azure forms the foundation of a smart multicloud environment, combining the best in performance, security, and data-driven innovation. Throughout the content, we explore the benefits of this approach, practical use cases, technical aspects of the integration, and how this strategy can drive digital transformation in enterprises. Enjoy the read!
What is smart multicloud?
The concept of smart multicloud goes beyond simply using multiple cloud providers. It proposes a strategic architecture model where resources are orchestrated intelligently across different platforms to maximize business outcomes.
In practice, this means:
- Avoiding lock-in with a single vendor
- Leveraging the specific strengths of each cloud
- Ensuring interoperability with unified governance
- Aligning IT infrastructure with business goals, with flexibility and resilience
This strategy is particularly effective when applied to complex workloads such as enterprise databases, legacy systems, data pipelines, and analytical applications - exactly the type of scenario where Oracle and Azure work well together.
Why Oracle and Azure?
Choosing the right providers is one of the most critical points in any multicloud strategy. Oracle and Microsoft have joined forces to deliver a joint solution that meets the most demanding requirements for performance, reliability, and security.
Strategic and technical alliance
The partnership between Oracle and Microsoft is one of the strongest in the cloud landscape. It goes beyond interoperability and involves deep integration at the infrastructure, data, and security levels.
The Oracle Database@Azure solution is a direct result of this alliance and represents a new level of co-location for critical workloads, delivering real benefits in performance, latency, and unified technical support.
Oracle Database@Azure: the foundation of smart multicloud
At the center of the Oracle and Microsoft integration is Oracle Database@Azure, a solution that combines the power of the Oracle database with Microsoft Azure's infrastructure and services. This unprecedented offering enables critical workloads to run with high performance and native integration, becoming one of the most robust pillars of a smart multicloud strategy.
Native Oracle execution on Azure
Oracle Database@Azure enables Oracle database services - such as Autonomous Database, Exadata Database Service, and Real Application Clusters (RAC) - to run directly in Azure datacenters but on Oracle (OCI) infrastructure.
This co-location drastically reduces latency and eliminates the common interconnectivity challenges in hybrid environments.
Benefits for critical workloads
- Consistent performance: Dedicated Exadata infrastructure ensures predictable performance
- Built-in high availability: Integrations with Oracle Data Guard, RAC, and managed clusters
- Full compatibility: No need to rewrite legacy Oracle applications
These benefits are essential for banks, insurance companies, telecoms, and businesses operating mission-critical systems.
Data integration and artificial intelligence with Azure
Integration with the Azure ecosystem expands innovation possibilities:
Microsoft Fabric + Oracle: enhanced data intelligence
The combination of Oracle and Azure goes beyond operational performance and security. One of the key differentiators is the ability to turn data into business intelligence, this is where Microsoft Fabric stands out.
This unified data platform from Microsoft brings together data engineering, data science, BI, and governance in a single environment. It includes services like Power BI, Azure Synapse, Data Factory, and machine learning tools, enabling companies to build complete pipelines, from raw data ingestion to actionable insights, all with security and scalability.
By integrating Oracle system data directly into Microsoft Fabric, organizations can:
- Consolidate operational and historical data into data lakes and lakehouses
- Apply predictive models with Azure Machine Learning using structured and real-time data
- Automate analytics and reporting with Power BI, powered by reliable Oracle Database data
- Use AI copilots to generate descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive analytics through natural language
Moreover, AI embedded in Microsoft Fabric allows business users, even without technical backgrounds, to interact with data using conversational commands, generating advanced analytics in seconds. This democratizes access to intelligence and accelerates strategic decision-making at every level of the organization.
This synergy between Oracle and Microsoft Fabric turns data into strategic assets, empowering an AI-driven smart multicloud.
Performance: the pillar of smart multicloud
In a multicloud environment, ensuring consistent performance is essential for critical applications to run efficiently, without compromising user experience or business outcomes.
The Oracle and Azure integration was designed specifically to deliver high performance for complex workloads, with low latency, on-demand scalability, and optimized end-to-end resources.
Dedicated connectivity: OCI-Azure Interconnect
The high-speed interconnection between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Azure (available in multiple global regions) offers:
- Latency under 2ms between environments
- Bandwidth up to 100 Gbps
- Secure data transfer with end-to-end encryption
This means workloads distributed between Oracle (backend) and Azure (frontend, BI, AI) can operate smoothly, as if they were in the same cloud.
Load-driven scalability
The multicloud architecture enables scaling:
- Horizontally: Distributing loads across equivalent services in both clouds
- Vertically: Leveraging Exadata's processing power in sync with Azure's elastic scalability
Additionally, with orchestrators like Azure Arc and Oracle management tools, it’s possible to automate scaling based on actual resource consumption.
Security in smart multicloud
In a scenario of growing cyber threats, security cannot be a standalone component, it must be embedded in the architecture from the start.
The Oracle and Azure combination allows the implementation of a robust security strategy with multiple layers of protection, centralized visibility, and compliance with key global standards, ensuring the trust needed to run critical workloads in a smart multicloud environment.
Combined protection layers
The integration between Azure and Oracle enables multilayer security policies:
- Unified identity: Federated authentication with Azure AD for all Oracle resources
- Double encryption: Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Azure Key Vault used together
- Continuous monitoring: Combined use of Microsoft Sentinel and Oracle Data Safe for real-time auditing and incident response
Governance and compliance
Compliance is a critical point in multicloud environments. The Oracle + Azure combination ensures strict adherence to international standards:
- GDPR (data privacy)
- PCI-DSS (payment systems)
- HIPAA (healthcare)
- FedRAMP (U.S. government)
Additionally, tools like Azure Policy and Oracle Cloud Guard allow automated security policy enforcement across the entire infrastructure.
Smart multicloud in practice: real use cases
Legacy system modernization
Organizations with old Oracle applications can migrate to Oracle Database@Azure without rewriting code—maintaining compatibility with PL/SQL, Oracle Forms, etc., while integrating new features via APIs on Azure.
Big Data and Analytics
Transactional data stored in Oracle can be exposed to Azure Synapse or Power BI for building advanced dashboards. This enables real-time insights generation with trusted data and unified governance.
Backup and disaster recovery
OCI offers backup and disaster recovery services with replication to Azure. This ensures business continuity even in the event of infrastructure failures, with reduced RTO and RPO.
Integrating Oracle and Azure goes far beyond simply running platforms side by side. It’s a paradigm shift in IT architecture, one that prioritizes:
- Sustainable performance
- Continuous innovation
- Cutting-edge security
- Agile governance
Smart multicloud is the answer for organizations looking to scale responsibly, innovate rapidly, and operate with excellence. With Oracle Database@Azure, Microsoft Fabric, dedicated connectivity, and a mature security ecosystem, companies are ready for the future.
If your company is ready to take the next step toward a smart multicloud strategy, Prime DB Solutions can help.
With recognized expertise in Oracle environments, Azure integration, and enterprise data solutions, we offer specialized consulting, technical implementation and continuous support to ensure your infrastructure is secure, scalable and performance-driven.
Get in touch and discover how to turn your multicloud environment into a true engine of innovation and results.
