Cognizant offering for Oracle Database@Azure

Cognizant, in partnership with Microsoft and Oracle is announcing an offering to effectively deploy and host your Oracle workloads to Oracle Database@ Azure where you can run OCI hardware like Exadata and Autonomous databases co-located within Azure data centers. The offering will include Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), and Oracle Data Guard in Azure platform.

With Cognizant's offering for Oracle Database@ Azure, you will get the best of Oracle and Microsoft to accelerate cloud migration and boost innovation. Quickly build data-driven apps and run your Oracle mission-critical workloads in Microsoft Azure with OCI-level performance, security, and availability.

Cognizant helps customers during the entire journey starting from Discovery, Analysis, Sizing, working closely with Oracle and Microsoft to arrive at Pricing and also successful migration of the Oracle Databases to Oracle Database@Azure. Cognizant can also help Optimize your Oracle licenses during this journey.

We will provide you a highly agile cloud platform with self-services & orchestration which will help you overcome your challenges with traditional infrastructure, minimize capex for migration and provide best in-class operations.

We promise you to effectively and securely migrate your Oracle workloads and integrated assets to Oracle Database @Azure and experience up to a 60% savings in infrastructure and operating costs—without any initial capital investments. Our commitment is to transform your landscape for maximum cost efficiency and agility in the cloud.

The key highlights of the offering are as follows:

• End to end ownership of Discovery and Analysis, Sizing and Pricing including Private offers, one click provisioning and migration to OCI at Azure, port your licenses to Azure Cloud (BYOL or ULA) and fully managed operations
• Offers high availability and disaster recovery solutions, scale compute and storage resources as per requirement leveraging the capacity of the Azure platform, ultra-low latency between clients in Azure network and Oracle instance in OCI, rapid provisioning of overlying systems in 15-30 minutes, up to 99.99% availability for your Oracle Exadata DB services in Azure
• Eliminates Security blind spots by offering next generation cyber defense, security at both infrastructure and application layers, single sign-on experience across cloud and on-premises applications. It will also ensure network traffic doesn’t leave Azure DC

With Oracle Database@ Azure, you will benefit from:

• Improved performance with near zero latency for Applications running on Azure
• Simplified billing and Unified licensing, transparent metering and resource inspection
• Consumption based pricing model for Oracle Database@ Azure
• Simplified Operations from single Azure portal for management of Oracle workloads
• Build new cloud native apps using Azure Kubernetes and Azure OpenAI service with Oracle autonomous database
• Unlock data insights and innovation leveraging Azure Data Analytics and AI services on the data stored in Oracle database

The actual pricing and duration for this engagement will be customized based on scope and requirements determined during initial consultation.