Global Industry Analyst Perspectives on Multi-VM Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer

March 11, 2022 | 4 minute read
Michael Brown
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Oracle
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Industry Analyst comments on Multi-VM Autonomous Database news

Today, Oracle introduced the ability to concurrently run Oracle Autonomous Database Service and Oracle Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer infrastructure inside an organization’s data center. This announcement gives current users of Gen 2 Exadata Cloud@Customer X7 through X9M platforms the ability to immediately start using Autonomous Database in their data center. In addition to increasing database consolidation and management efficiency, the combination of having no consumption costs at the time of allocation, fractional vCPU usage, automatic scaling, and the ability to turn off databases when not in use makes this the lowest cost way for developers to start using the world’s most advanced database.

Leading industry analysts had the following comments on today’s news:

Futurum
“Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer was already at least two generations ahead of the hybrid cloud offerings you could buy from the likes of AWS, Google and Azure. Now, adding the ability to run thousands of Autonomous Databases in VMs across a single Exadata Cloud@Customer enables organizations to leverage fine-grained auto-scaling to only pay for CPU usage when it’s consumed—instead of paying for peak CPU usage all the time, like nearly every other hybrid cloud promise on the market. And considering that Snowflake doesn’t even have a hybrid cloud offering, they just fell even further behind.”

-Ron Westfall, Senior Analyst, Research Director, Futurum

Constellation Research

“Autonomous Database running on VMs in Exadata Cloud@Customer is a big win for developers. They can carve up VM clusters for self-service dev-test, staging, and production environments with appropriate SLAs, quotas, performance, and access characteristics. This capability combined with auto-provisioning, auto-tuning, and auto-patching as well as the converged support for all modern data types, workloads and development styles  of the Autonomous Database frees developers to achieve higher velocity.” 

-Holger Mueller, Principal Analyst and Vice President, Constellation Research 

Wikibon

“Oracle Autonomous Database is the first and only cloud database that delivers high degrees of automation that enables companies to stop obsessing with database manual tuning and guesswork.  Now Oracle is making it even easier for customers to take advantage of this innovative technology by running Autonomous Database on VMs in Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer. This capability not only provides a low-cost entry point, but also allows customers to create different environments such as Dev-Test, Production, OLTP, and Analytics, each with its own SLAs, quotas, and access. And just like with Tesla, all of this functionality becomes available with an over the air update—nothing to install, nothing to manually sort out. Slicing up an ExaC@C so customers can gain maximum granularity from their cloud investments makes ADB that much more compelling than what’s currently available on Azure Stack, Google Anthos and AWS Outposts. In fact, in makes those offerings look antiquated, under-powered and the equivalent of coal-burning steamships by comparison.”

-Marc Staimer, Senior Analyst, Wikibon

Wintercorp

“Oracle’s announcement of Autonomous Database running in VMs on Exadata Cloud@Customer is a significant and immediate win for organizations developing modern, mission-critical applications. Enterprises that already have Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure now have the lowest cost path to using Oracle’s machine learning-powered Autonomous Database, enabling individual developers to have dedicated resources for as little as $60 per month. As a result, organizations can build applications with a large variety of data types, workloads and development styles, while the databases underlying those applications will inherit the consistency, availability and security that comes with autonomous database along with the low latency that is inherent in Cloud@Customer.”

 -Richard Winter, CEO, Wintercorp.

KuppingerCole

“Oracle Autonomous Database Service running on VM clusters on Exadata Cloud@Customer infrastructure brings a new level of efficiency to hybrid cloud environments. The ability to simultaneously run Autonomous Database and Exadata Database on Cloud@Customer infrastructure enables organizations to easily increase their operational efficiency and lower costs. However, Oracle’s innovations also enable organizations to provide strong governance over access to resources as well as the performance and availability SLOs associated with them. The result is that developers have the freedom to do what they need with their Autonomous Database resources while organizations are able to ensure that they are secured and protected following corporate best practices.”

-Alexei Balaganski, Lead Analyst an& Chief Technology Officer, KuppingerCole Analysts AG

Omdia

“The introduction of Autonomous Database running on VMs in Exadata Cloud@Customer represents a new opportunity for Oracle customers to optimize their data infrastructures through workload consolidation. First, customers can now run Autonomous Database and Exadata Database Service simultaneously on the same infrastructure without having to stand up separate Exadata infrastructure for each service. Second, customers can deploy multiple Autonomous Database instances on each of several VM clusters on the Exadata Cloud@Customer, each of which can be configured with different mixes of compute, memory, and storage to optimally support diverse workloads. But this move represents a lot more than cost savings through workload consolidation. For Oracle, this move puts the company's machine learning (ML) automation within Autonomous Database front and center as a ready means for customers to efficiently use their infrastructure and thereby lower overall TCO."

-Bradley Shimmin, Chief Analyst, AI, Analytics and Data Management, Omdia

dbInsight

“Oracle’s Autonomous Database is the only fully self-driving database in the market. But until now, for on-premises customers, taking advantage of the Autonomous Database was essentially an all-or-nothing proposition, as they would have to commit to implementing a full Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer system. With the new multi-VM option, on-premises customers can now adopt the Autonomous Database at their own pace alongside other Exadata instances on the same rack. The multi-VM option is a major step in lowering the barriers to adoption to the Autonomous Database for customers requiring on-premises deployments.”

-Tony Baer, Principal, dbInsight 

As you can see, there is strong validation from the industry analyst community that these new capabilities will have a material, positive impact on the productivity of application developers and the operational efficiency of the organizations they work for. With Multi-VM Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer, enterprises will be able to cut costs and increase innovation while maintaining full data residency and security in their data centers.

 

Michael Brown

Senior Director, Product Marketing, Oracle

Michael is a seasoned product marketing and product management director with experience in real-time systems, high performance computing, graphics, storage, and databases. He currently manages the Oracle Exadata Cloud and Engineered Systems product marketing team. Michael holds an MBA from Wharton, an MSEE from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, and both a BS in Engineering and BA in Philosophy from Swarthmore College.

 

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