**"MSCI and Fonterra Rely on Oracle Database@Azure to Optimize Global Operations"**

Oracle and Microsoft are advancing modernization by expanding Azure services to new regions around the world, now offering Oracle Database@Azure in six Microsoft Azure regions. These include East Australia, Central Canada, East US, Central France, West Central Germany, and South UK. There are plans to expand into fifteen more regions, including South Brazil, Central India, and Northern Europe. MSCI, a significant provider of decision support tools for the investment community, utilizes Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure. This ensures a secure and powerful infrastructure for critical business operations and strengthens the company's business continuity and resilience. "With Oracle Database@Azure, MSCI can continue to protect its critical operations from future disruptions," emphasized John Rogers, Chief Information Security Officer at MSCI. Fonterra, New Zealand's largest company and a global leader in dairy exports, is also embracing the multicloud solution. As one of the first customers in the region, Fonterra uses Oracle Database@Azure to further develop its technology infrastructure. "Multicloud is the present and the future for Fonterra," stated Scott Pyles, Chief Technology Officer at Fonterra. New services such as the Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery Service and the upcoming OCI GoldenGate further enhance data protection and resilience. Customers can acquire Oracle Database@Azure as a new service or under existing Azure commitments and benefit from licensing advantages. Oracle offers flexible and customized solutions that can be tailored to specific business requirements. Karan Batta, Senior Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, sees great support from the customer base: "Our expansion of the Azure cloud region footprint ensures that more customers worldwide have access to the multicloud capabilities that accelerate application innovation and development." Brett Tanzer, Vice President of Product Management at Microsoft, adds: "Through our partnership with Oracle, we are helping even more customers adapt to market changes and maintain their competitive edge.