Tessell Expands Multi-Cloud RDS and Real-Time Fabric Integration at Microsoft Ignite 2025

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Summary

At Microsoft Ignite 2025, Tessell returned for its third consecutive year with a clear focus: helping enterprises modernize mission-critical databases on Azure with AI-native automation, cross-cloud mobility, and live data streaming into Microsoft Fabric.

Tessell continues to position itself as one of the few truly multi-cloud RDS platforms, providing a consistent, application-compatible experience across Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other engines. The company’s presence at Ignite underscores a growing enterprise demand for simplifying cloud database modernization without rewriting applications.

Modernizing Databases Without Disruption

A central theme in Tessell’s Ignite message was minimizing migration risk. The company highlighted customer proof points, including 700+ databases migrated to Azure, to reinforce that enterprises can move from on-prem or competing clouds to Azure with minimal friction.

Tessell’s “Lift & Shine” approach to Oracle modernization stood out, enabling customers to adopt Azure without schema or code changes. For enterprises with legacy Oracle estates, this remains a major barrier to cloud adoption, and Tessell is aiming squarely at that pain point.

Always-Fresh Data for AI and Analytics

Tessell’s real-time streaming into Microsoft Fabric and OneLake aligns closely with Microsoft’s broader push toward unified, AI-ready data estates. By pushing operational data directly into Fabric, organizations can build AI agents and analytics pipelines using live transactional context rather than batch-based snapshots.

This fits well with the Ignite narrative around Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and the need for agents and copilots to reason over current business data. Tessell effectively becomes a bridge between operational databases and Microsoft’s emerging AI layers.

AI-Powered Control, Automation, and Efficiency

Tessell also emphasized new AI-driven automation across performance tuning, scaling, governance, and cost control. These capabilities speak to a real operational challenge: as enterprises adopt more diverse and distributed data platforms, the complexity of managing them increases.

By offering a consistent control experience across engines and clouds, Tessell aims to reduce this operational overhead. This is a story that resonates strongly with organizations that want to modernize without introducing new management silos.

The Bottom Line

Tessell’s Ignite presence secures its position as a modernization partner for enterprises moving complex database estates to Azure. Its combination of multi-cloud RDS, zero-rewrite Oracle migration, and real-time Fabric integration aligns tightly with Microsoft’s own direction toward AI-ready data infrastructure.

As enterprises accelerate AI adoption, platforms like Tessell that simplify data mobility, unify control, and deliver always-fresh data into AI systems will become increasingly important.

Author

  • Paul Nashawaty

    Paul Nashawaty, Practice Leader and Lead Principal Analyst, specializes in application modernization across build, release and operations. With a wealth of expertise in digital transformation initiatives spanning front-end and back-end systems, he also possesses comprehensive knowledge of the underlying infrastructure ecosystem crucial for supporting modernization endeavors. With over 25 years of experience, Paul has a proven track record in implementing effective go-to-market strategies, including the identification of new market channels, the growth and cultivation of partner ecosystems, and the successful execution of strategic plans resulting in positive business outcomes for his clients.

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