Oracle said Equinix is a customer, and the colocation giant uses Oracle Exadata Database Machine to help power its global interconnection platform.

Equinix’s massive global footprint includes more than 200 data centers in 55 markets that serve about 10,000 customers. Last month it reached a deal to acquire Packet, which will expand Equinix’s presence in smaller markets and edge data centers.

The interconnection company already partnered with Oracle and offered direct, private connections to Oracle’s public cloud via Equinix’s SDN-based platform. Additionally, joint enterprise customers can use Equinix Network Edge Services to migrate Oracle applications and databases from other cloud providers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Equinix also uses Oracle Exadata Database Machine to support its database transaction processing and data warehousing analytics. Exadata, which is optimized for running Oracle Database, is a combined hardware and software platform that includes scale-out Intel x86 compute and storage servers, remote direct memory access over converged Ethernet (RoCE) or InfiniBand networking, persistent memory, NVMe flash, and specialized software.

Prior to selecting Exadata, Equinix took more of a do-it-yourself infrastructure environment that included Oracle Database software along with servers, storage, and networking products from multiple vendors.

After switching to Oracle’s integrated system, Equinix saw up to 24-times better performance for database queries along with 400% faster analytics and 300% faster data replication. Equinix also runs it applications between 30% and 40% faster, with some workloads showing more than 100% improvement, the companies claim. Additionally, the data center company says it eliminated an estimated 12 hours of service downtime for database server patching per year and further reduced application patching downtime by 90%.