Oracle and Verizon have inked a partnership that speaks to the continuing evolution of hybrid cloud deployments. Here are the key details from the companies' announcement:
With Verizon Secure Cloud Interconnect for Oracle FastConnect, customers can now connect to Oracle Cloud data center sites located in the U.S. and Europe. With Oracle's Cloud facilities, in-region connectivity helps improve performance by reducing latency and providing strong quality of service.
With Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect for Oracle FastConnect, enterprises can take advantage of the service's Software Defined Networking (SDN) capabilities to gain greater control and agility over their cloud environments. This includes consumption-based bandwidth, pre-provisioned on-demand resources, controlled application performance and varying classes of service that can be easily provisioned via Verizon's Dynamic Network Manager.
Secure Cloud Interconnect is built on Verizon's world-class Private IP network that offers any-to-any connectivity while providing the security and reliability associated with private wide area networking solutions.
Verizon Secure Cloud Interconnect for Oracle FastConnect supports Oracle's broader portfolio of Fast Connect services, which allow customers to establish a secure high-speed private MPLS connection between their existing IT infrastructure and the cloud compute resources on the Oracle Cloud.
Verizon had already formed similar pacts for Secure Cloud Interconnect with Amazon Web Services, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce and others. Meanwhile, last year Oracle partnered with Equinix, which provides networking through more than 100 carrier-neutral data centers around the world, to tap its Cloud Exchange SDN.
Oracle is keen to grow its cloud business, particularly in the IaaS segment where it remains far behind the likes of AWS and Microsoft. At its recent OpenWorld conference, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison unveiled next-generation data center technology that it claims provides much better performance at a lower cost than competitors.
Still, no cloud player holds direct control over global networks like Verizon's, making partnerships like the one with Oracle a fact of life. "Secure connections are high on the agenda of CIOs and CTOs who want to reduce connectivity to different clouds," says Constellation Research VP and principal analyst Holger Mueller. "Making it easier using the same secure technology and expanding it beyond single regions are all important capabilities for network and communications providers."
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