For decades, enterprises have largely depended on Oracle to run their mission-critical databases and enterprise data warehouses (EDWs). However, in recent years, the drive towards cloud migration and modernization – along with leveraging AI and cloud analytics – is making companies wonder how to seamlessly transform legacy Oracle warehouses without disrupting their daily operations.

With the Oracle-Google Cloud partnership, Oracle customers now have a clear pathway to modernize their current workload on this cloud platform. Here’s a unified path to modernizing Oracle workloads on Google Cloud.

Modernizing Oracle on Google Cloud – a unified path

Here are some core offerings that enable Oracle modernization on Google Cloud:

• Oracle Database@Google Cloud

  With this integrated offering, Oracle customers can now deploy and run their database services directly on Google Cloud data centers. The supported Oracle database services include:

  • Oracle Exadata
  • Oracle Autonomous
  • Oracle GoldenGate

  This also enables Oracle-dependent applications to run natively on Google Cloud.

• OCI and Cross-cloud Interconnect

  With a low-latency, secure interconnect between Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle customers can facilitate a seamless data transfer and perform multi-cloud operations without incurring any data transfer charges between cloud environments.

  
  

Next, let’s explore four key migration strategies that Oracle customers can implement according to their modernization goals.

Google Cloud migration and modernization – key strategies

Depending on cloud modernization goals, Oracle customers can choose from the following four strategies:

1. Lift-and-shift to Google Cloud Bare Metal
   With this approach, enterprises can move their Oracle databases, including Exadata DB service and Autonomous database, to the Google Cloud Bare Metal service. With its built-in managed infrastructure, this approach enables enterprises to maintain their existing Oracle environment while leveraging the advantages of Google Cloud, such as application integration.
2. Lift-and-shift to Google Cloud (IaaS)
   This is another “lift-and-shift” approach where enterprises can migrate their Oracle database instances to Google Cloud using the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model. This approach allows Oracle customers to utilize their existing Oracle licenses and run their high-priority workloads on Google Compute, optimized for cost and performance efficiency.
3. Data replication to Google BigQuery
   This approach is best suited for enterprises looking to leverage advanced data analytics. Through this strategic approach, they can replicate or sync their Oracle data directly on Google BigQuery. This strategy is effective for unlocking the value of Oracle data with Google Cloud’s unified data and AI capabilities, without a complete database migration.
4. Oracle transformation to PostgreSQL and AlloyDB
   This approach is applicable when enterprises want to implement complete cloud modernization and transformation. Oracle customers can modernize their Oracle Exadata or database environment to PostgreSQL or AlloyDB on Google Cloud. AlloyDB is Google Cloud’s fully managed database service – compatible with PostgreSQL – designed for heavy enterprise workloads.

Next, let’s discuss some of the benefits of the Oracle-Google Cloud partnership for enterprises.

Benefits of the Oracle-Google Cloud partnership

Here are some of the benefits of this strategic partnership for enterprises:

1. Leverage AI and analytics for business innovation
   Through this strategic partnership, enterprises can combine Oracle’s database expertise with Google Cloud’s AI and data analytics capabilities to transform their business data and accelerate innovation. 
   
   For instance, by developing new AI-powered applications, enterprises can gain faster insights by integrating them with Google BigQuery and Looker. They can also leverage Google Gemini’s multimodal applications through Vertex AI and OCI’s GenAI service – within Oracle Fusion Cloud applications. Additionally, Google Gemini can accelerate application development and management.
2. Streamline application modernization on Google Cloud
   With this partnership, Oracle customers can now simplify and accelerate the management of crucial Oracle applications like financial and transactional processing. Enterprises can leverage Google Cloud’s infrastructure – Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), and Google Compute Engine (GCE) – for enhanced performance, reliability, and security.
3. Streamline their multi-cloud management
   Enterprises can experience the benefit of a multi-cloud environment to run their mission-critical Oracle databases and applications on Google Cloud’s integrated platform. They can simplify procurement with a single, consolidated bill for both Oracle and Google Cloud services and maximize the value of their existing Oracle licenses and expertise.
4. Provide faster data access
   By integrating Oracle with Google Cloud infrastructure, enterprises can ensure safer data storage and faster data access for Oracle-powered applications.
5. Accelerate enterprise-level modernization
   The Oracle-Google Cloud partnership can help enterprises accelerate their cloud modernization process, with access to new tools and capabilities. For instance, Dun & Bradstreet highlights how this synergy enables them to process massive datasets with exceptional speed and precision, thus delivering more value to their customers.

How Onix is accelerating the Oracle to Google Cloud modernization

As a trusted Google Cloud partner, Onix is accelerating the Oracle to Google Cloud modernization process with its technical expertise and proprietary tools & platforms. What differentiates Onix from other solution providers is its focus on data innovation across OLTP and Google BigQuery – and its successful track record in data warehouse modernization. Additionally, Onix has proven expertise in Cortex deployment and data integration using orazpg and striim.

Powering the data-to-AI journey with Wingspan

At the “heart” of data-to-AI transformation, Onix’s Wingspan has emerged as the industry’s first Agentic AI platform built on Google Cloud. This platform can power the data-to-AI journey, while streamlining database modernization and cloud migration.

For enterprises looking to migrate from Oracle to Google Cloud, here’s how Wingspan’s intelligent agents provide the framework to overcome common challenges:

• Eagle – The Planner
  This agent performs an AI-powered, detailed assessment of the existing Oracle workloads and provides a detailed blueprint to migrate to Google Cloud.
• Raven – The Transformer
  This agent automates the conversion of Oracle schemas, PL and SQL code, and ETL pipelines for use on Google Cloud. It supports a “lift-and-shift” migration approach to Oracle on Bare Metal Solution, along with transformation to PostgreSQL and AlloyDB.
• Condor – The Transporter
  This AI agent can automate data migration to Google Cloud by ingesting data from multiple sources.
• Pelican – The Validator
  This agent effectively validates and reconciles data moving from the Oracle environment to Google Cloud platforms like Google BigQuery, Bare Metal, or AlloyDB.
• Kingfisher – The Synthetic data generator
  This agent generates high-fidelity synthetic datasets modeled using Oracle application data. This enables enterprises to train and test AI models in Google Cloud before the actual migration process.

By leveraging each of these proprietary tools within Onix’s Wingspan, enterprises can streamline their “data-to-AI” pathway to modernize Oracle workloads across multiple scenarios, including:

• Oracle Bare Metal for a managed lift-and-shift approach.
• Oracle Exadata migration to Google BigQuery.
• Oracle to PostgreSQL & AlloyDB for long-term modernization.

Conclusion

As an efficient data-to-AI accelerator, Onix’s Wingspan platform enables Oracle customers to move their workload to Google Cloud, as well as unlock innovations in the form of Google BigQuery and Vertex AI.

Along with the combined capabilities of Oracle and Google Cloud, enterprises can leverage Onix’s cloud expertise to modernize their legacy databases and data warehouses. As a recognized Google Cloud partner, Onix can fulfil a variety of migration requirements, including lift-and-shift, cloud analytics, and database modernization.

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