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  • What is Oracle GoldenGate 23ai?

    What is Oracle GoldenGate 23ai?
    Apr 29 2025
    In a new season of the Oracle University Podcast, Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham dive into the world of Oracle GoldenGate 23ai, a cutting-edge software solution for data management. They are joined by Nick Wagner, a seasoned expert in database replication, who provides a comprehensive overview of this powerful tool. Nick highlights GoldenGate's ability to ensure continuous operations by efficiently moving data between databases and platforms with minimal overhead. He emphasizes its role in enabling real-time analytics, enhancing data security, and reducing costs by offloading data to low-cost hardware. The discussion also covers GoldenGate's role in facilitating data sharing, improving operational efficiency, and reducing downtime during outages. Oracle GoldenGate 23ai: Fundamentals: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-goldengate-23ai-fundamentals/145884/237273 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. --------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:25 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I’m Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston: Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi everyone! Welcome to a new season of the podcast. This time, we’re focusing on the fundamentals of Oracle GoldenGate. Oracle GoldenGate helps organizations manage and synchronize their data across diverse systems and databases in real time. And with the new Oracle GoldenGate 23ai release, we’ll uncover the latest innovations and features that empower businesses to make the most of their data. Nikita: Taking us through this is Nick Wagner, Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle GoldenGate. He’s been doing database replication for about 25 years and has been focused on GoldenGate on and off for about 20 of those years. 01:18 Lois: In today’s episode, we’ll ask Nick to give us a general overview of the product, along with some use cases and benefits. Hi Nick! To start with, why do customers need GoldenGate? Nick: Well, it delivers continuous operations, being able to continuously move data from one database to another database or data platform in efficiently and a high-speed manner, and it does this with very low overhead. Almost all the GoldenGate environments use transaction logs to pull the data out of the system, so we're not creating any additional triggers or very little overhead on that source system. GoldenGate can also enable real-time analytics, being able to pull data from all these different databases and move them into your analytics system in real time can improve the value that those analytics systems provide. Being able to do real-time statistics and analysis of that data within those high-performance custom environments is really important. 02:13 Nikita: Does it offer any benefits in terms of cost? Nick: GoldenGate can also lower IT costs. A lot of times people run these massive OLTP databases, and they are running reporting in those same systems. With GoldenGate, you can offload some of the data or all the data to a low-cost commodity hardware where you can then run the reports on that other system. So, this way, you can get back that performance on the OLTP system, while at the same time optimizing your reporting environment for those long running reports. You can improve efficiencies and reduce risks. Being able to reduce the amount of downtime during planned and unplanned outages can really make a big benefit to the overall operational efficiencies of your company. 02:54 Nikita: What about when it comes to data sharing and data security? Nick: You can also reduce barriers to data sharing. Being able to pull subsets of data, or just specific pieces of data out of a production database and move it to the team or to the group that needs that information in real time is very important. And it also protects the security of your data by only moving in the information that they need and not the entire database. It also provides extensibility and flexibility, being able to support multiple different replication topologies and architectures. 03:24 Lois: Can you tell us about some of the use cases of GoldenGate? Where does GoldenGate truly shine? Nick: Some of the more traditional use cases of GoldenGate include use within the multicloud fabric. Within a multicloud fabric, this essentially means that GoldenGate can replicate data between on-premise environments, within cloud...
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  • Integrating APEX with OCI AI Services

    Integrating APEX with OCI AI Services
    Apr 22 2025
    Discover how Oracle APEX leverages OCI AI services to build smarter, more efficient applications. Hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham interview APEX experts Chaitanya Koratamaddi, Apoorva Srinivas, and Toufiq Mohammed about how key services like OCI Vision, Oracle Digital Assistant, and Document Understanding integrate with Oracle APEX. Packed with real-world examples, this episode highlights all the ways you can enhance your APEX apps. Oracle APEX: Empowering Low Code Apps with AI: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-apex-empowering-low-code-apps-with-ai/146047/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. --------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:25 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I’m Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services. Nikita: Hi everyone! Last week, we looked at how generative AI powers Oracle APEX and in today’s episode, we’re going to focus on integrating APEX with OCI AI Services. Lois: That’s right, Niki. We’re going to look at how you can use Oracle AI services like OCI Vision, Oracle Digital Assistant, Document Understanding, OCI Generative AI, and more to enhance your APEX apps. 01:03 Nikita: And to help us with it all, we’ve got three amazing experts with us, Chaitanya Koratamaddi, Director of Product Management at Oracle, and senior product managers, Apoorva Srinivas and Toufiq Mohammed. In today’s episode, we’ll go through each Oracle AI service and look at how it interacts with APEX. Apoorva, let’s start with you. Can you explain what the OCI Vision service is? Apoorva: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Vision is a serverless multi-tenant service accessible using the console or REST APIs. You can upload images to detect and classify objects in them. With prebuilt models available, developers can quickly build image recognition into their applications without machine learning expertise. OCI Vision service provides a fully managed model infrastructure. With complete integration with OCI Data Labeling, you can build custom models easily. OCI Vision service provides pretrained models-- Image Classification, Object Detection, Face Detection, and Text Recognition. You can build custom models for Image Classification and Object Detection. 02:24 Lois: Ok. What about its use cases? How can OCI Vision make APEX apps more powerful? Apoorva: Using OCI Vision, you can make images and videos discoverable and searchable in your APEX app. You can use OCI Vision to detect and classify objects in the images. OCI Vision also highlights the objects using a red rectangular box. This comes in handy in use cases such as detecting vehicles that have violated the rules in traffic images. You can use OCI Vision to identify visual anomalies in your data. This is a very popular use case where you can detect anomalies in cancer X-ray images to detect cancer. These are some of the most popular use cases of using OCI Vision with your APEX app. But the possibilities are endless and you can use OCI Vision for any of your image analysis. 03:29 Nikita: Let’s shift gears to Oracle Digital Assistant. Chaitanya, can you tell us what it’s all about? Chaitanya: Oracle Digital Assistant is a low-code conversational AI platform that allows businesses to build and deploy AI assistants. It provides natural language understanding, automatic speech recognition, and text-to-speech capabilities to enable human-like interactions with customers and employees. Oracle Digital Assistant comes with prebuilt templates for you to get started. 04:00 Lois: What are its key features and benefits, Chaitanya? How does it enhance the user experience? Chaitanya: Oracle Digital Assistant provides conversational AI capabilities that include generative AI features, natural language understanding and ML, AI-powered voice, and analytics and insights. Integration with enterprise applications become easier with unified conversational experience, prebuilt chatbots for Oracle Cloud applications, and chatbot architecture frameworks. Oracle Digital Assistant provides advanced conversational design tools, conversational designer, dialogue and domain trainer, and native multilingual support. Oracle Digital Assistant is open, scalable, and secure. It provides multi-channel support, automated bot-to-agent transfer, and integrated authentication profile. 04:56 Nikita: ...
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  • AI-Assisted Development in Oracle APEX

    AI-Assisted Development in Oracle APEX
    Apr 15 2025
    Get ready to explore how generative AI is transforming development in Oracle APEX. In this episode, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham are joined by Oracle APEX experts Apoorva Srinivas and Toufiq Mohammed to break down the innovative features of APEX 24.1. Learn how developers can use APEX Assistant to build apps, generate SQL, and create data models using natural language prompts. Oracle APEX: Empowering Low Code Apps with AI: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-apex-empowering-low-code-apps-with-ai/146047/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. -------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:25 Nikita: Welcome back to another episode of the Oracle University Podcast! I’m Nikita Abraham, Team Lead of Editorial Services with Oracle University, and I’m joined by Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hi everyone! In our last episode, we spoke about Oracle APEX and AI. We covered the data and AI -centric challenges businesses are up against and explored how AI fits in with Oracle APEX. Niki, what’s in store for today? Nikita: Well, Lois, today we’re diving into how generative AI powers Oracle APEX. With APEX 24.1, developers can use the Create Application Wizard to tell APEX what kind of application they want to build based on available tables. Plus, APEX Assistant helps create, refine, and debug SQL code in natural language. 01:16 Lois: Right. Today’s episode will focus on how generative AI enhances development in APEX. We’ll explore its architecture, the different AI providers, and key use cases. Joining us are two senior product managers from Oracle—Apoorva Srinivas and Toufiq Mohammed. Thank you both for joining us today. We’ll start with you, Apoorva. Can you tell us a bit about the generative AI service in Oracle APEX? Apoorva: It is nothing but an abstraction to the popular commercial Generative AI products, like OCI Generative AI, OpenAI, and Cohere. APEX makes use of the existing REST infrastructure to authenticate using the web credentials with Generative AI Services. Once you configure the Generative AI Service, it can be used by the App Builder, AI Assistant, and AI Dynamic Actions, like Show AI Assistant and Generate Text with AI, and also the APEX_AI PL/SQL API. You can enable or disable the Generative AI Service on the APEX instance level and on the workspace level. 02:31 Nikita: Ok. Got it. So, Apoorva, which AI providers can be configured in the APEX Gen AI service? Apoorva: First is the popular OpenAI. If you have registered and subscribed for an OpenAI API key, you can just enter the API key in your APEX workspace to configure the Generative AI service. APEX makes use of the chat completions endpoint in OpenAI. Second is the OCI Generative AI Service. Once you have configured an OCI API key on Oracle Cloud, you can make use of the chat models. The chat models are available from Cohere family and Meta Llama family. The third is the Cohere. The configuration of Cohere is similar to OpenAI. You need to have your Cohere OpenAI key. And it provides a similar chat functionality using the chat endpoint. 03:29 Lois: What is the purpose of the APEX_AI PL/SQL public API that we now have? How is it used within the APEX ecosystem? Apoorva: It models the chat operation of the popular Generative AI REST Services. This is the same package used internally by the chat widget of the APEX Assistant. There are more procedures around consent management, which you can configure using this package. 03:58 Lois: Apoorva, at a high level, how does generative AI fit into the APEX environment? Apoorva: APEX makes use of the existing REST infrastructure—that is the web credentials and remote server—to configure the Generative AI Service. The inferencing is done by the backend Generative AI Service. For the Generative AI use case in APEX, such as NL2SQL and creation of an app, APEX performs the prompt enrichment. 04:29 Nikita: And what exactly is prompt enrichment? Apoorva: Let's say you provide a prompt saying "show me the average salary of employees in each department." APEX will take this prompt and enrich it by adding in more details. It elaborates on the prompt by mentioning the requirements, such as Oracle SQL syntax statement, and providing some metadata from the data dictionary of APEX. Once the prompt enrichment is complete, it is then passed on to the LLM inferencing service. Therefore, the SQL query provided by...
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  • Unlocking the Power of Oracle APEX and AI

    Unlocking the Power of Oracle APEX and AI
    Apr 8 2025
    Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham kick off a new season of the podcast, exploring how Oracle APEX integrates with AI to build smarter low-code applications. They are joined by Chaitanya Koratamaddi, Director of Product Management at Oracle, who explains the basics of Oracle APEX, its global adoption, and the challenges it addresses for businesses managing and integrating data. They also explore real-world use cases of AI within the Oracle APEX ecosystem Oracle APEX: Empowering Low Code Apps with AI: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-apex-empowering-low-code-apps-with-ai/146047/ Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, Radhika Banka, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:25 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I’m Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services. Nikita: Hi everyone! Thank you for joining us as we begin a new season of the podcast, this time focused on Oracle APEX and how it integrates with AI to help you create powerful applications. This season is for everyone—from beginners and SQL developers to DBA data scientists and low-code enthusiasts. So, if you’re interested in using Oracle APEX to build low-code applications that have custom generative AI features, you’ll want to stay tuned in. 01:07 Lois: That’s right, Niki. Today, we're going to discuss Oracle APEX at a high level, starting with what it is. Then, we’ll cover a few business challenges related to data and AI innovation that organizations face, and learn how the powerful combination of APEX and AI can help overcome these challenges. 01:27 Nikita: To take us through it all, we’ve got Chaitanya Koratamaddi with us. Chaitanya is Director of Product Management for Oracle APEX. Hi Chaitanya! For anyone new to Oracle APEX, can you explain what it is and why it's so widely used? Chaitanya: Oracle APEX is the world's most popular enterprise low code application platform. APEX enables you to build secure and scalable enterprise-scale applications with world class features that can be deployed anywhere, cloud or on-premises. And with APEX, you can build applications 20 times faster with 100 times less code. APEX delivers the most productive way to develop and deploy mobile and web applications everywhere. 02:18 Lois: That’s impressive. So, what’s the adoption rate like for Oracle APEX? Chaitanya: As of today, there are 19 million plus APEX applications created globally. 5,000 plus APEX applications are created on a daily basis and there are 800,000 plus APEX developers worldwide. 60,000 plus customers in 150 countries across various industry verticals. And 75% of Fortune 500 companies use Oracle APEX. 02:56 Nikita: Wow, the numbers really speak for themselves, right? But Chaitanya, why are organizations adopting Oracle APEX at this scale? Or to put it differently, what’s the core business challenge that Oracle APEX is addressing? Chaitanya: From databases to all data, you know that the world is more connected and automated than ever. To drive new business value, organizations need to explore and exploit new sources of data that are generated from this connected world. That can be sounds, feeds, sensors, videos, images, and more. Businesses need to be able to work with all types of data and also make sure that it is available to be used together. Typically, businesses need to work on all data at a massive scale. For example, supply chains are no longer dependent just on inventory, demand, and order management signals. A manufacturer should be able to understand data describing global weather patterns and how it impacts their supply chains. Businesses need to pull in data from as many social sources as possible to understand how customer sentiment impacts product sales and corporate brands. Our customers need a data platform that ensures all this data works together seamlessly and easily. 04:38 Lois: So, you’re saying Oracle APEX is the platform that helps businesses manage and integrate data seamlessly. But data is just one part of the equation, right? Then there’s AI. How are the two related? Chaitanya: Before we start talking about Oracle AI, let's first talk about what customers are looking for and where they are struggling within their AI innovation. It all starts with data. For decades, working with data has largely involved dealing with structured data, ...
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  • Raise Your Game with Oracle Cloud Applications

    Raise Your Game with Oracle Cloud Applications
    Apr 1 2025
    In this special episode of the Oracle University Podcast, Bill Lawson and Nikita Abraham chat with Peter Fernandez, Senior Director of Cloud Certification at Oracle University, about the exciting new Raise Your Game challenge. They discuss how the initiative is designed to enhance participants' skills in Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and Oracle Cloud Success Navigator. They also cover key details about the challenge, such as how to get started, who can participate, the way it is structured, and the prizes up for grabs. Raise Your Game: https://education.oracle.com/raise-your-game-saas Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:25 Bill: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast. I’m Bill Lawson, Senior Director of Cloud Applications Product Management with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Team Lead of Editorial Services. Nikita: Hi everyone! Last week, we concluded our three-part series on multicloud, and today, we’re shifting gears and exploring an exciting new challenge that’s been thrown down by Oracle University. To tell us all about it, we have Peter Fernandez joining us. Peter is Senior Director of Cloud Certification at Oracle University. Hi Peter! We’re thrilled to have you with us today! Peter: Hi Niki, hi Bill! I’m delighted to be here. 01:02 Bill: So, Peter, let’s get straight into it. What’s this new challenge all about? Peter: The challenge, which we’re calling Raise Your Game, is an incredible opportunity for anyone looking to gain knowledge and gain professional skills about Oracle’s Fusion Cloud Applications. We launched a skills challenge on Feb 14, and it will continue until May 15, 2025. This challenge encourages you to build expertise in two key areas: Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and Oracle Cloud Success Navigator. This training is geared towards anyone who could be a student in higher ed or someone pursuing a business degree, and Oracle customers and partners who are new to Oracle’s Applications or experienced consultants implementing business applications. 01:55 Nikita: And how exactly does the challenge help in building this expertise? Peter: The challenge has two levels. In Level 1, you’ll need to complete an Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps Foundations course and pass the corresponding exam. These courses are designed to deepen your understanding of the technology enablers in Oracle’s Fusion Cloud Applications and learn about Oracle’s Modern Best Practice, or OMBP. These are extremely helpful throughout all phases in the journey when implementing and using Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. The Foundation training itself covers a wide range of topics, including core OMBP processes, key performance metrics, implementation considerations, and technology enablers like AI, ML, mobile, and analytics. 02:49 Bill: Before we move on, Peter, can you tell us more about Oracle Modern Best Practice? We discussed it a few weeks back, but for anyone who missed that episode, it’ll be nice to get a quick refresher. Peter: Sure, Bill. Implementing Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications successfully is more than just technology—it’s about following best practices that drive efficiency and success and tie back to business requirements. Oracle Modern Best Practice represent years of accumulated experience, industry insights, and proven methodologies. It serves as a guiding framework for implementing efficient business processes within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. These best practices map the features and innovations within Oracle applications to the processes that customers perform every day, and that is key. These curated, industry-leading practices detail how the features that we have built using the most modern technologies can be leveraged to optimize operations. Having a solid grasp of an OMBP and its associated technology enablers will empower you to ensure smoother business operations and higher customer satisfaction. It will show you how to automate activities, streamline tasks, improve results, and set your team up for continued success. The goal of these courses is to make it easy for implementers, global process owners, IT teams to identify every opportunity to improve an organization’s business processes with Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. 04:33 Bill: So, getting back to Level 1, what do I earn when I complete it? Peter: When you ...
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  • Oracle Database@Azure

    Oracle Database@Azure
    Mar 25 2025
    The final episode of the multicloud series focuses on Oracle Database@Azure, a powerful cloud database solution. Hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham, along with Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery Samvit Mishra, discuss how this service allows customers to run Oracle databases within the Microsoft Azure data center, simplifying deployment and management. The discussion also highlights the benefits of native integration with Azure services, eliminating the need for complex networking setups. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Multicloud Architect Professional: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-multicloud-architect-professional-2025-/144474 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. --------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:25 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I’m Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me is Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services. Nikita: Hi everyone! For the last two weeks, we’ve been talking about different aspects of multicloud. In the final episode of this three-part series, Samvit Mishra, Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery, joins us once again to tell us about the Oracle Database@Azure service. Hi Samvit! Thanks for being here today. Samvit: Hi Niki! Hi Lois! Happy to be back. 01:01 Lois: In our last episode, we spoke about the strategic partnership between Oracle and Microsoft, and specifically discussed the Oracle Interconnect for Azure. Nikita: Yeah, and Oracle Database@Azure is yet another addition to this partnership. What can you tell us about this service, Samvit? Samvit: The Oracle Database@Azure service, which was made generally available in 2023, runs right inside the Microsoft Azure data center and uses Azure networking. The entire Oracle Cloud Database Service infrastructure resides in the Azure data center, while it is managed by an expert Oracle Cloud Infrastructure operations team. It provides customers simple and secure access to Oracle Cloud database services within their chosen Azure deployment region, without getting into the complexity of managing networking between the cloud vendors. It is natively integrated with various Microsoft Azure services. This provides a seamless user experience when configuring and using the different Azure services with OCI Oracle database, since much of the complexity associated with the configuration is greatly simplified. There is no need to set up a private interconnect between Microsoft Azure and OCI because the service itself resides within the Azure data center and uses the Azure network. This is very beneficial in terms of strategic deployment because customers can experience microseconds network latency between the endpoints, while receiving a high-performance database environment. 02:42 Nikita: How do I get started with the Oracle Database@Azure service? Samvit: You begin by purchasing the subscription from Oracle and setting up your billing account. Then you provision the database, resources, and service. With that you are ready to configure your application to connect to the database and work on the remaining deployment. As you continue using the service, you can monitor the different resource metrics using the Azure monitoring services and analyze those logs using Azure Log Analytics. 03:15 Lois: So, the adoption is pretty easy, then. What about the responsibilities? Who is responsible for what? Samvit: The Oracle Cloud operations team is entirely responsible for managing the Exadata Database Infrastructure and the VM cluster resources that are provisioned in the Microsoft Azure data center. Oracle is responsible for maintaining the service software and infrastructure by applying updates as they are released. Any issues arising from the OCI Database Service and the resources will be addressed by Oracle Support. You have to raise a support ticket for them to investigate and provide a resolution. And as Azure customers, you have to do rightsizing, based on your workload needs, and provision the Exadata Database Infrastructure and VM cluster in the OCI pod within the Azure data center. You have to provision the database in Exadata Database Service, apply the database and system updates, and take advantage of the cloud automation to maintain and manage the database. You have to load data, establish the connectivity, and support development on your database. As a ...
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  • Oracle Interconnect for Azure

    Oracle Interconnect for Azure
    Mar 18 2025
    Join Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham as they interview Samvit Mishra, Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery, on Oracle Interconnect for Azure. Learn how this interconnect revolutionizes the customer experience by providing a direct, private link between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure. From use cases to bandwidth considerations, get an in-depth look into how Oracle and Azure come together to create a unified cloud experience. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Multicloud Architect Professional: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-multicloud-architect-professional-2025-/144474 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. --------------------------------------------------------------- Episode transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:25 Nikita: Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I’m Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services with Oracle University, and with me is Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs. Lois: Hey there! Last week, we spoke about multicloud, discussing what it is, and the new partnerships we have with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services. If you haven’t gotten to the episode yet, we suggest you go back and listen to it before you dive into this one. 00:56 Nikita: Joining us again is Samvit Mishra, Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery, and we’re going to ask him about Oracle Interconnect for Azure. We'll look at the scenarios around Oracle Interconnect for Azure and talk about some considerations too. Hi Samvit! Thanks for being with us today. Samvit: Hi Niki! Hi Lois! Lois: Samvit, you introduced Oracle Interconnect for Azure last week, but tell us, how does it improve the customer experience? What benefits does it offer? 01:25 Samvit: Oracle Interconnect for Azure can be established with a one-time setup, eliminating the need for an intermediary network provider. This cross-cloud direct connection also helps you migrate to the cloud or build cloud-native applications by using the best of OCI and Microsoft Azure. Now, because it is a private connection between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure, you get consistent network performance… around 2 millisecond latency. The interconnect also enables joint customers to take advantage of a unified Identity and Access Management platform. So, you can set up single sign-on between Microsoft Azure and OCI for your Oracle applications, like PeopleSoft and e-Business Suite. 02:16 Nikita: That makes the integration pretty seamless, right? Samvit: Exactly, Niki. Having a federated single sign-on means you authenticate only once to access multiple applications, without signing in separately to access each application. And you also get a secure inter-cloud connection that bypasses the public internet. 02:38 Nikita: How extensive is the global reach of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Azure in terms of the number of cloud regions available? Samvit: OCI has the fastest growing network of global data centers, with 50 cloud regions available. And there are 12 Azure interconnect regions. For example, Ashburn in the US is an OCI-Azure interconnect region. 03:01 Lois: Samvit, what is the architecture of Oracle Interconnect for Azure like? How is data transferred securely between a Virtual Cloud Network in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and a Virtual Network in Microsoft Azure? Samvit: A Virtual Network in a Microsoft Azure region is connected to a Virtual Cloud Network in an OCI region using a private interconnection composed of Azure ExpressRoute and OCI FastConnect. Now, on the OCI side, the FastConnect virtual circuit terminates at a dynamic routing gateway, which is attached to the Virtual Cloud Network. On the Microsoft Azure side, the ExpressRoute connection ends at a virtual network gateway, which is attached to a virtual network. So, traffic from Azure to OCI is routed through the virtual network gateway in Microsoft Azure to the dynamic routing gateway in OCI. What’s important to note is that in both directions, the traffic never leaves the private network. 04:05 Nikita: Wow, ok. Samvit, what are some common use cases of Oracle Interconnect for Azure? Can you give us an example of a supported deployment option? Samvit: We can have a .NET application running in Azure that can access an Oracle database in OCI. Similarly, you can also have custom cloud-native applications running on Azure using Oracle Autonomous Database on the OCI side. 04:29 Lois: And are there any prerequisites ...
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  • What is Multicloud?

    What is Multicloud?
    Mar 11 2025
    This week, hosts Lois Houston and Nikita Abraham are shining a light on multicloud, a game-changing strategy involving the use of multiple cloud service providers. Joined by Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery Samvit Mishra, they discuss why multicloud is becoming essential for businesses, offering freedom from vendor lock-in and the ability to cherry-pick the best services. They also talk about Oracle's pioneering role in multicloud and its partnerships with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Multicloud Architect Professional: https://mylearn.oracle.com/ou/course/oracle-cloud-infrastructure-multicloud-architect-professional-2025-/144474 Oracle University Learning Community: https://education.oracle.com/ou-community LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/oracle-university/ X: https://x.com/Oracle_Edu Special thanks to Arijit Ghosh, David Wright, Kris-Ann Nansen, and the OU Studio Team for helping us create this episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: 00:00 Welcome to the Oracle University Podcast, the first stop on your cloud journey. During this series of informative podcasts, we’ll bring you foundational training on the most popular Oracle technologies. Let’s get started! 00:25 Lois: Hello and welcome to the Oracle University Podcast! I’m Lois Houston, Director of Innovation Programs with Oracle University, and with me today is Nikita Abraham, Team Lead: Editorial Services. Nikita: Hi everyone! Today, we’re moving on to multicloud. In our next three episodes, we’ll be discussing what multicloud is and why there’s so much of a buzz around it. With us is Samvit Mishra, Senior Manager of CSS OU Cloud Delivery. Hi Samvit! Thanks for joining us today. 00:55 Samvit: Hi Niki! Hi Lois! Happy to be here. Lois: So Samvit, we know that Oracle has been an early adopter of multicloud and a pioneer in multicloud services. But for anyone who isn’t familiar with what multicloud is, can you explain what it means? Samvit: Absolutely, Lois. Multicloud is a very simple, basic concept. It is the coordinated use of cloud services from more than one cloud service provider. 01:21 Nikita: But why would someone want to use more than one cloud service provider? Samvit: There are many reasons why a customer might want to leverage two or more cloud service providers. First, it addresses the very real concern of mitigating or avoiding vendor lock-in. By using multiple providers, companies can avoid being tied down to one vendor and maintain their flexibility. 01:45 Lois: That’s like not putting all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. Samvit: Exactly. Another reason is that customers want the best of breed. What that means is basically leveraging or utilizing the best product from one cloud service provider and pairing it against the best product from another cloud service provider. Getting a solution out of the combined products…out of the coordinated use of those services. 02:14 Nikita: So, it sounds like multicloud is becoming the new normal. And as we were saying before, Oracle was a pioneer in this space. But why did we embrace multicloud so wholeheartedly? Samvit: We recognized that our customers were already moving in this direction. Independent studies from Flexera found that 89% of the subjects of the study used multicloud. And we conducted our own study and came to similar numbers. Over 90% of our customers use two or more cloud service providers. HashiCorp, the big infrastructure as code company, came to similar numbers as well, 94%. They basically asked companies if multicloud helped them advance their business goals. And 94% said yes. And all this is very recent data. 03:04 Lois: Can you give us the backstory of Oracle’s entry into the multicloud space? Samvit: Sure. So back in 2019, Oracle and Microsoft Azure joined forces and announced the interconnect service between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure. The interconnect was between Oracle’s FastConnect and Microsoft Azure’s ExpressRoute. This was a big step, as it allowed for a direct connection between the two providers without needing a third-party. And now we have several of our data centers interconnected already. So, out of the 48 regions, 12 of them are already interconnected. And more are coming. And you can very easily configure the interconnect. This interconnectivity guarantees low latency, high throughput, and predictable performance. And also, on the OCI side, there are no egress or ingress charges for your data. There's also a product called Oracle Database@Azure, where Oracle and Microsoft deliver Oracle Database services in Microsoft Azure data centers. 04:12 Lois: That’s exciting! And what are the benefits of this product? Samvit: The main advantage is the co-location. Being co-located with the Microsoft Azure data center offers you native integration between Azure and ...
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