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Oracle, VMware extend cloud partnership

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 17 Sept 2019

Enterprise software company Oracle and virtualisation solutions provider VMware have announced an expanded partnership.

The firms say the extended partnership seeks to help organisations leverage Oracle and VMware’s enterprise software and cloud solutions to make the move to the cloud.

Under this new partnership, organisations will be able to support their hybrid cloud strategies by running VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

With this new solution, the companies say organisations will be able to migrate VMware vSphere workloads to Oracle’s Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure and take advantage of consistent infrastructure and operations.

As a part of this partnership, Oracle will also provide technical support for Oracle software running in VMware environments both in customer on-premise data centres and Oracle-certified cloud environments.

“We are excited that Oracle Cloud customers will be able to run VMware workloads in Oracle Cloud and retain VMware administrative access,” says Don Johnson, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

“This is made possible by Layer 2 networking in the cloud and our bare metal service. Customers will be able to extend existing VMware investments, processes, and tools while benefitting from the security and performance of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.”

“VMware is delighted that for the first time, Oracle will officially offer technical support for Oracle products running on VMware. This is a win-win for customers,” says Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer, customer operations, VMware.

“We’re also happy to welcome Oracle to the VMware Cloud Provider Programme, which will allow them to migrate and manage workloads running on VMware Cloud Foundation in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.”

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