The buzz ahead of this week’s Oracle Cloud World grows louder as Oracle and longtime, and at times bitter, rival Microsoft jointly announce that Oracle's Exadata platform is coming to Azure cloud.

Oracle and Microsoft on Wednesday said that they were jointly launching a new service, dubbed Oracle Database Service for Azure, that will allow Azure customers direct access to Oracle databases ...

It’s a multi-cloud world and one with a cloud infrastructure services market that is dominated by three large players. If you’re one of those cloud services providers that is not among the big three, ...