GCP – Google Cloud and Oracle accelerate enterprise modernization with new offerings, regions, and capabilities

Supporting customers where they want to be is a core value at Google Cloud, and a big part of the reason that we have partnered with Oracle — so that you can innovate faster with the best of Google and the best of Oracle. 

This week at Google Cloud Next, we announced significant expansions to our Oracle Database offerings, including the preview of Oracle Base Database Service for a flexible and controllable way to run Oracle databases in the cloud; general availability of Oracle Exadata X11M, bringing the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platform to Google Cloud; and additional enterprise-ready capabilities including customer managed encryption keys (CMEK).

We are continuing to invest in global infrastructure for Oracle, with a total of 20 locations available in the coming months, adding Oracle Database@Google Cloud presence in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, and Japan. 

These announcements follow our developments with Oracle since last July, when we launched Oracle Database@Google Cloud. This partnership enables customers to migrate and modernize their Oracle workloads and start taking advantage of Google’s industry-leading data and AI capabilities such as BigQuery, Vertex AI platform, and Gemini foundation models. 

Additional features provide customers with even more options in their modernization journey, such as the fully managed Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless. They can also benefit from increased reliability and resiliency features, such as cross-region disaster recovery and Oracle Maximum Availability Gold certification.

“Banco Actinver is committed to providing innovative financial solutions to our clients. By combining the security and performance of Oracle Database with Google Cloud’s data analytics and AI tools, we’re gaining deeper insights into market trends, enhancing our services, and delivering personalized experiences to our customers,” said Jorge Fernandez, CIO, Banco Actinver.

Innovative new capabilities

We’re expanding our offerings to empower customers with the flexibility to manage a diverse set of database workloads cost effectively.

• Oracle Base Database Service: The new Base Database Service delivers a highly controllable and customizable foundational database platform, built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) virtual machines and general-purpose infrastructure. It can empower businesses with the flexibility to manage a diverse range of database workloads directly.

• Enhanced Oracle Database Services: In addition to the availability of Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database Service, Oracle Linux, and Oracle on Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), we are pleased to share general availability of Oracle Exadata X11M. Oracle Database@Google Cloud now offers the latest generation of Oracle Exadata machines, the X11M, with enhanced performance and scalability for demanding database workloads. These new machines provide significant performance gains and increased capacity, enabling customers to run even the most intensive Oracle applications with ease. X11M will be available in all new regions.

Customers are embracing Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and to support their global needs, we’re expanding our footprint while maintaining the highest standards of application performance and reliability. 

• Expanding to 20 Oracle Database@Google Cloud Locations in the coming months: To further support the growing demand for Oracle workloads on Google Cloud, we are launching in more locations, including U.S. Central 1 (Iowa), North America-Northeast 1 (Montreal), North America-Northeast 2 (Toronto), Asia-Northeast 1 (Tokyo), Asia-Northeast 2 (Osaka), Asia-South 1 (Mumbai), Asia-South 2 (Delhi), South America-East 1 (Sao Paulo), Europe-West (Italy), Australia-Southeast2 (Melbourne), and Australia-Southeast1 (Sydney) — and additional zones in Ashburn, Frankfurt, London, Melbourne, and Italy. The new regions and expanded capacity are in addition to Google Cloud regions across U.S. East (Ashburn), U.S. West (Salt Lake City), U.K. South (London), and Germany Central (Frankfurt) that are available today.

• New Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect availability:  Partner Cross-Cloud Interconnect for OCI is pleased to expand our global network offerings with new multicloud connectivity between Google and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Toronto and Zurich. This further complements our existing 11 regions already served, ensuring the lowest possible latency between both clouds while keeping traffic private and secure.

• Cross Region Disaster Recovery: Cross Region Disaster Recovery support for Oracle workloads on Oracle Autonomous Database ensures high availability and resilience, protecting against potential outages and providing continuous operation for critical applications.

• Enterprise-grade networking upgrades: Advanced networking upgrades enable enterprises to efficiently deploy their Oracle resources along with Google Cloud and share resources.

Industry-leading certifications and user experience

Google Cloud is committed to providing a seamless and efficient experience for Oracle customers, ensuring that managing and utilizing Oracle databases is straightforward and effective. We offer a combination of native Google Cloud tools and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) interfaces, along with robust support for various applications and systems.

• Enhanced user experience: Google Cloud is committed to providing an easy-to-use experience for Oracle customers, offering a Google Cloud integrated user experience for application developers and routine database operations, alongside an OCI-native experience for advanced database management. This includes support for Shared VPC, APIs, SDKs, and Terraform.

• Application support: Google Cloud is pleased to announce the support for Oracle applications running on Google Cloud, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance, including Oracle E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft Enterprise, JD Edwards Enterprise One, Hyperion Financial Management, and Retail Merchandising.

• SAP and Oracle Capability: Oracle workloads on Google Compute Engine are now supported by SAP and Oracle, further validating Google Cloud as a trusted platform for running enterprise applications.

• Integration with Google Cloud Monitoring: Provides enterprises a unified monitoring and alerting mechanism across all their Google Cloud database services, now including Oracle Database.

• New support in Google Cloud Backup and DR: Our backup service now provides central, policy-based management for backup of Oracle workloads along with other Google Cloud services using secure backup vaults for data protection — isolating and protecting data from threats like ransomware and accidental deletion.

Google Cloud’s strengths make it the preferred hyperscaler for running mission-critical Oracle workloads. 

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