AT&T to migrate thousands of existing Oracle databases to Oracle cloud
AT&T continues its shift toward software- and cloud-centric operations with a new agreement to move “thousands of its large-scale internal databases” to Oracle’s cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service.
The move involves migrating many existing Oracle databases that AT&T utilizes, plus their associated applciation workloads, to Oracle’s cloud. In addition, AT&T will also deploy Oracle’s Field Service Cloud for more than 70,000 field technicians, the two companies said, “to leverage [AT&T’s] existing machine learning and big data capabilities with Oracle’s technology to increase the productivity, on-time arrivals and job duration accuracy of AT&T’s field technicians.”
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd called the deal “an historic agreement” in a company statement, adding that “the Oracle Cloud will enable AT&T to use Oracle technology more efficiently across every layer of the technology stack. This includes AT&T’s massive redeployment of Oracle Databases, which will be provisioned entirely from the Oracle Cloud Platform.”
Oracle said that AT&T will have global access to its offering in both public cloud and via AT&T’s Integrated Cloud.
AT&T had previously bolstered its cloud offerings through arrangements with Amazon Web Services and IBM, deepening integration with those companies in order to provide integrated solutions for cloud networking, mobility, the internet of things, security and analytics in the case of AWS and targeting enterprise customers in conjunction with IBM. Meanwhile, Verizon announced yesterday that it is selling its cloud and managed hosting operations to IBM as part of a strategic partnership to leverage ecosystem partners for cloud hosting, while Verizon focuses on cloud-related services.
“We believe that the future of the network is to be data-powered, to be software-centric, and to be fast and responsive,” said John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president of AT&T Technology and Operations, in a statement. “We call this three-pronged approach AT&T Network 3.0 Indigo, and it’s all about enabling a seamless and intuitive network experience for our customers. This collaboration with Oracle accelerates our network transformation and migration to the cloud to expand efficiency, performance, and reduce cost while improving overall customer service.”
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