The News: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has expanded its partnership with VMware, joining the VMware Cloud Universal program that provides an approach to facilitating the modernization of VMware workloads on OCI. This strategic alliance offers increased flexibility, scalability, and security, further positioning OCI as a robust choice in the hybrid multi-cloud landscape and signaling a new era of collaboration between two tech titans. To find out more, please see the Press Release on Oracle’s website.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Joins VMware Cloud Universal Program
Analyst Take: In the constantly evolving landscape of hybrid multi-cloud environments, it is vital for enterprises to find a pathway that unites flexibility, scalability, and security across all deployment architectures and cloud destinations. Against this backdrop, Oracle took the opportunity presented by VMware Explore in Las Vegas to announce an expanded partnership with VMware.
The announcement that OCI is joining the VMware Cloud Universal program heralds a new era of collaboration that promises to reshape how enterprises engage with cloud modernization and is yet another milestone in the evolution of OCI. VMware, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, has extended its already robust partnership with Oracle to facilitate the modernization of VMware workloads on OCI.
We need to look at this strengthened partnership as more than just a mere alignment of products; and rather see it for what it is, a strategic interlock between two industry giants aiming to redefine the cloud adoption process.
Accelerating Cloud Adoption
Under this expanded alliance, customers can now subscribe to Oracle Cloud VMware Solution as part of VMware Cloud Universal. This flexible program simplifies procurement and accelerates the deployment of eligible VMware Cloud services, making it particularly attractive for businesses operating with a hybrid cloud architecture where security, performance, and scalability are paramount. A crucial takeaway from the announcement, for me at least, was that it accommodates customers across various cloud migration timelines, including those with cloud-bursting requirements.
With VMware Cloud Universal, purchasing credits for deployment on the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution represents a move toward a more fluid and streamlined method of managing cloud-related expenses, which is crucial as FinOps discipline becomes the norm. The solution offers additional flexibility for existing VMware SDDC perpetual license holders, making the transition to the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution smoother and more economical.
Enterprise-Level Performance with Security in Mind
The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution is tailored for those who require superior scalability, performance, and security. Its design allows customers to control their entire VMware stack completely, providing a simplified but robust approach for rapid migration from on-premises environments to the cloud.
What sets this partnership apart is ensuring a secure and isolated customer environment that meets the highest compliance standards, including FedRAMP High, crucial for highly-regulated agencies and enterprises alike. The promise of consistent low pricing across 45 global Oracle Cloud regions and the industry’s lowest data egress prices further cements the appeal, in my opinion.
A Shared Commitment to Innovation
Both Oracle and VMware have long demonstrated a commitment to simplifying the deployment of VMware enterprise workloads in OCI. The enhanced collaboration, signaled as part of the announcement, furthers that commitment by offering an even more seamless way to procure Oracle Cloud VMware Solution subscriptions.
The executives within both organizations were effusive. Zia Yusuf, senior vice president at VMware, emphasized the acceleration of innovation and the synergy between the two giants that allows customers to benefit from cloud economics and scale. Doug Smith, senior vice president at Oracle, highlighted the new level of choice and flexibility this partnership offers in building and operating applications, databases, and workloads in OCI.
Looking Ahead
As enterprises across various industries, including finance, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and government agencies, embrace the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, they are not just buying into a product but investing in a shared vision from two huge enterprise players.
In the context of the broader hybrid multi-cloud landscape, this partnership between Oracle and VMware acts as a lodestar guiding businesses towards more effective application modernization, simplified multi-cloud operations and ensuring key mission critical criteria for workload placement are also met. The alliance does more than reflect the current state of the market; it will shape it for many enterprises. This announcement will further position OCI as a robust and flexible choice for those seeking to innovate within a cloud-smart framework.
In a world where technological flexibility is not merely a luxury but a necessity, this collaboration sets a standard, serving as a testament to the transformative power of strategic partnerships in our interconnected cloud-native age.
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Author Information
Regarded as a luminary at the intersection of technology and business transformation, Steven Dickens is the Vice President and Practice Leader for Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations at The Futurum Group. With a distinguished track record as a Forbes contributor and a ranking among the Top 10 Analysts by ARInsights, Steven's unique vantage point enables him to chart the nexus between emergent technologies and disruptive innovation, offering unparalleled insights for global enterprises.
Steven's expertise spans a broad spectrum of technologies that drive modern enterprises. Notable among these are open source, hybrid cloud, mission-critical infrastructure, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and FinTech innovation. His work is foundational in aligning the strategic imperatives of C-suite executives with the practical needs of end users and technology practitioners, serving as a catalyst for optimizing the return on technology investments.
Over the years, Steven has been an integral part of industry behemoths including Broadcom, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and IBM. His exceptional ability to pioneer multi-hundred-million-dollar products and to lead global sales teams with revenues in the same echelon has consistently demonstrated his capability for high-impact leadership.
Steven serves as a thought leader in various technology consortiums. He was a founding board member and former Chairperson of the Open Mainframe Project, under the aegis of the Linux Foundation. His role as a Board Advisor continues to shape the advocacy for open source implementations of mainframe technologies.
