Tessell launches Exadata Integration for multi-cloud Oracle AI

Tessell has announced the launch of its Exadata Integration, expanding its database-as-a-service offering to support Oracle Database and Exadata across multi-cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, and Oracle Database@AWS.

Through this initiative, Tessell aims to make it easier for enterprises to run Oracle workloads across diverse environments while maintaining performance, compliance, and automation requirements. Tessell's partnership with Oracle is intended to support customers who want to extend Exadata's capabilities to various multi-cloud workloads and architectures.

Multi-cloud demands

The growing use of AI applications has changed enterprise database requirements, with organisations seeking platforms that combine reliability with ease of development. The estimated USD $50 billion-plus AI application development market is influencing enterprises to adopt data platforms that deliver both enterprise-grade performance and developer flexibility.

Developers in particular are expecting instant provisioning, consumption-based pricing, and straightforward transitions from prototype to mission-critical production environments. Many organisations established before the widespread adoption of AI now face strategic decisions about shifting to technology infrastructure that can support agility, automation, and readiness for AI workloads.

Tessell positions its Exadata Integration as a way to bridge enterprises' existing Oracle assets with current multi-cloud demands, claiming its integration delivers the necessary automation, compliance, and cost efficiency for today's data-driven markets. Tessell's Co-Founder & CEO, Bala Kuchibotla, said:

"Enterprises no longer need to choose between the gold standard of Oracle Exadata and the flexibility of multi-cloud. With Tessell, they can have both - extending Exadata's unmatched performance into AI-ready, compliant, and cost-optimized environments worldwide."

Features of the offering

The Exadata Integration introduces several new features under different operational themes. Tessell Airdrop enables zero-downtime migration through automation of the migration process, covering assessment, discovery, planning, cutover, and optimisation after migration, with no requirement for application rewrite.

The Tessell Data Ecosystem is intended to facilitate real-time connections between operational and analytical data pipelines, enabling AI agents, analytics, and enterprise applications. Organisations can also apply policy-based data residency and sovereignty controls, tailoring data governance on a country-by-country basis. Other governance features include unified controls for compliance, workload placement, and the orchestration of disaster recovery across different cloud environments.

Tessell's solution also focuses on business continuity with its Availability Machine for disaster recovery, automation for lifecycle optimisation including planning and migration, and automation for sparse cloning to enable fast and space-efficient development and testing environments. A unified control plane is provided for managing snapshots, data recoverability, refreshes, data masking, and access policies across Exadata and public cloud environments.

A notable technical feature highlighted in the announcement is support for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Exadata Database Service across OCI, Azure, and Google Cloud, which Tessell states is unique among public clouds. These features are intended to consolidate environments and accelerate application development cycles.

Kamaldeep Khanuja, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Tessell, commented on the launch:

"Tessell for multi-cloud Exadata infrastructure marks a pivotal step forward in simplifying enterprise Cloud transformation. Tessell is now enabling businesses to move mission-critical Oracle workloads to the cloud with zero downtime, full security, and deep ecosystem integration. This launch is about more than migration - it's about giving our customers the power to continuously innovate, scale, and lead in a data-driven world."

The enterprise journey

Tessell's approach supports enterprises from initial prototyping through to scaled deployment. Developers can begin with Oracle Database Free (XE) or Standard Edition for early development, then graduate to Enterprise Edition on Exadata as their needs for availability, performance, and reliability grow. Tessell's automation and consistent interfaces are available across OCI, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, designed to facilitate this progression without disruption.

Cost efficiency claims

The company also addresses the economics of large-scale AI workloads, which can incur significant costs-such as AWS-provisioned environments costing more than USD $6,250 per month for applications requiring sustained high input/output operations per second (IOPS). Tessell asserts its Exadata Integration offers superior price-performance, aiming to lower operational complexities while maintaining high availability and resiliency.

The new integration provides policy-based orchestration and unified control for Oracle workloads across various cloud providers. Tessell says its ongoing collaboration with Oracle is intended to help customers take advantage of multi-cloud strategies without forgoing the reliability associated with Oracle Exadata.

This expansion forms part of Tessell's broader strategy to unify operational and analytical workloads on enterprise databases while giving chief information officers control, compliance, and AI readiness for their businesses.