Microsoft and Oracle, along with the 'matching swords' against Amazon in the cloud computing battle

Microsoft and Oracle - the two giant service providers of the cloud computing market - have recently said they have reached an important joint cooperation agreement, allowing Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud cloud services. can work with high-speed links between the data centers of both companies.

According to reviews from experts, the deal will specifically target users who are large businesses, and is also a mutually beneficial partnership between Microsoft and Oracle to counteract the expansion of The "king" in the cloud field at the present time: Amazon with Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform is dominating the market.

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Representatives of the two companies said high-speed links between their data centers will begin to be deployed at facilities in the eastern United States, after which experts will assess the situation and gradually expand. spread to other areas. At the same time, Microsoft and Oracle will also work directly together to develop utilities that allow shared users to log in to services from either platform with a single account, as well as receive support. technical assistance from one of two companies. Thus, you will only need to use a single account for both Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud platforms, all will be synchronized to the maximum.

The move comes as both Oracle and Microsoft have been working hard to persuade large businesses and government agencies to consider transforming the currently processed computing tasks. in their data centers to the cloud computing platform of these two companies.

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"With Oracle's thick expertise in enterprise services, we believe that this combination will give users more optimal service experience and help customers of both platforms. accelerate the process of moving its applications and databases to the public cloud, 'said Scott Guthrie, head of Microsoft cloud services.

AWS, the largest provider of cloud computing services on the market, is constantly expanding its market share quickly. More importantly, Amazon has also succeeded in dragging a large number of customers, including the "guts", violating Oracle's "success" in the database market, and the This makes them unable to sit still.

'Through close cooperation between Oracle and Microsoft, joint customers of both companies can migrate their entire existing suite of applications to the cloud without re-archiving anything, helping Secure the big investments they've made, 'said Don Johnson, executive vice president of Oracle cloud infrastructure, in a statement.

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In fact, enterprises in the same sector that are linked together to stay in another business are not uncommon. Microsoft had previously signed an agreement with German software maker SAP and Adobe to allow the services of these companies to work better together.

Ed Anderson, a well-known analyst with market research firm Gartner, said the move was clearly a 'flip-flop' of big cloud computing giants, especially for with Oracle. 'Looking at the recent' expansion of Amazon ', it is not difficult to understand that Oracle sees AWS as its biggest competitor in the database market, not Microsoft Azure', experts said.

In addition, Mr. Anderson said there are still some unanswered questions about this 'historic' agreement, such as whether customers face data transfer charges when moving large amounts of information. back and forth between services or not.

But in general, Anderson said that the move would most likely benefit both companies by helping them entice more large businesses, and especially retaining used customers. use both services, responsible for this number of customers to leave AWS hands like last time.

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From a user perspective, the collaboration between Microsoft and Oracle is completely harmless, but even brings new benefits, and promotes stronger competition in the field of cloud computing.