MSCI and Fonterra adopt Oracle Database@Azure
to optimize worldwide operations
Powerful cloud database service is now
available in six Microsoft Azure regions with plans to expand to
another fifteen regions
Availability of Oracle Database Zero Data Loss
Autonomous Recovery Service enhances data protection, and the
planned availability of OCI GoldenGate will boost
resilience
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VEGAS, Sept. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle
CloudWorld -- Global organizations, including MSCI and Fonterra
are adopting Oracle Database@Azure to accelerate their
cloud migrations. To meet rapidly growing global demand, Oracle and
Microsoft continue to make Oracle Database@Azure available in more
new regions across the world and add new services. Oracle
Database@Azure is now available in six Microsoft Azure regions –
Australia East, Canada Central, East US, France Central, Germany
West Central, and UK South. The service will soon be available in
fifteen more regions, including Brazil South, Central India, Central US, East US 2, Italy
North, Japan East, North Europe,
South Central US, Southeast Asia,
Spain Central, Sweden Central, United Arab Emirates North,
West Europe, West US 2, and West
US 3.
MSCI Bolsters Business Continuity and Resilience
MSCI
is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and
services for the global investment community. Oracle Exadata
Database Service on Oracle Database@Azure provides MSCI with
secure, high-performance, and reliable infrastructure to support
its critical operations. For MSCI, ongoing resilience and
operational stability are essential to maintaining its leadership
in the industry.
"With Oracle Database@Azure, MSCI can continue to confidently
safeguard its critical operations against future disruptions," said
John Rogers, chief information
security officer, MSCI. "This service will provide us with the
secure and reliable environment necessary to protect our mission
critical workloads and enhance our business continuity."
Fonterra Embraces Multicloud to Enhance Global
Operations
New Zealand's
largest company, Fonterra, is responsible for over one third of the
world's dairy exports. As an existing user of both Azure and Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure, Fonterra is one of the first customers for
the Oracle Database@Azure service in the region.
"For Fonterra, multicloud is the present and the
future. By leveraging this new solution from our two cloud
partners, we can evolve our technology landscape faster and deliver
a better solution to our business globally," said Scott Pyles, chief technology
officer, Fonterra.
Powerful New Oracle Database@Azure Services
To help
customers enhance data protection and boost resilience, Oracle and
Microsoft continue to add powerful new services to Oracle
Database@Azure. Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery
Service is now available on Oracle Database@Azure, and OCI
GoldenGate is planned to be available soon.
- Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery
Service: A fully managed data protection service for
organizations running Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle
Database@Azure, this service enables organizations to quickly
recover business critical data within seconds of an outage or
ransomware attack. Addressing both operational and disaster
recovery scenarios, customers will have the unique flexibility to
recover locally in their primary Azure region, to an alternate
Azure region, or even to an OCI region. All of these options
include the ability to recover to the latest Oracle Database
point-in-time for the fastest Recovery Time Objective with the very
lowest Recovery Point Objective. This helps customers minimize
recovery time and data loss.
- OCI GoldenGate: A database replication and heterogeneous
data integration service is planned to be available soon as a
managed service on Oracle Database@Azure, with full feature parity
to OCI GoldenGate. OCI GoldenGate will support integrations with
Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, further enhancing existing Azure data
and messaging store integrations such as Azure Event Hub, Azure
Object Store, Azure MySQL, Azure PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server,
Snowflake, Databricks, and Kafka.
Customers can purchase Oracle Database@Azure as a completely new
service or using their existing Azure commitments or discount
programs. They can also leverage their existing Oracle license
benefits such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support
Rewards. Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database
Service, and Oracle Database Zero Data Loss Autonomous Recovery
Service are available with custom quotes via private offer. Oracle
Autonomous Database is now also available as pay-as-you-go, giving
customers the flexibility to deploy a fully managed database in
minutes.
With Oracle Database@Azure running on OCI in Azure datacenters,
customers benefit from:
- The ability to build new cloud-native applications using OCI
and Azure technologies, including the rich set of Azure development
and AI services
- Flexible options to simplify and accelerate migrating their
Oracle databases to the cloud, including compatibility with proven
migration tools such as Oracle Zero-Downtime Migration
- The highest level of Oracle database performance, scale and
availability, along with feature and pricing parity with OCI
- The simplicity, security, and low-latency to build integrated
solutions with Autonomous Database and Azure services
- Consistency with on-premises deployments of Oracle Database and
Oracle Exadata to reduce the need to rearchitect or refactor
solutions
- Unified customer experience and support from Oracle and
Microsoft
- Simplified purchasing and the ability to leverage Oracle and
Microsoft licenses, commitments, and discount programs
- Validated Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Silver
and Gold tiers for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle
Database@Azure
- The assurance of a unified service and architecture that are
tested and supported by two of the most trusted names in the
cloud
"We are seeing significant customer momentum as global
organizations accelerate their cloud migrations with Oracle
Database@Azure," said Karan Batta,
senior vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. "Our commitment
to expanding the Azure cloud region footprint ensures that even
more customers worldwide have access to the multicloud capabilities
that accelerate application innovation and development."
"In today's complex and rapidly evolving business landscape, a
one-size-fits-all cloud solution simply isn't enough to meet the
diverse needs of modern enterprises," said Brett Tanzer, vice president, product
management, Microsoft. "Through our partnership with Oracle, we're
expanding Oracle Database@Azure and helping more customers respond
to market shifts and maintain a competitive edge as they grow, and
their needs evolve."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Oracle Database@Azure
- Read about Oracle Autonomous Database on Oracle
Database@Azure
- Learn more about Oracle database services, Oracle
Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database
Service and Oracle Base Database Service
- Learn about innovating with Oracle and Azure
About Oracle Distributed Cloud
Oracle's distributed
cloud delivers the benefits of cloud with greater control and
flexibility. Oracle's distributed cloud lineup includes:
- Public cloud: Hyperscale public cloud regions serve any
size of organization, including those requiring strict EU
sovereignty controls. See the full list of regions here.
- Dedicated cloud: Customers can run all OCI cloud
services in their own data centers with OCI Dedicated Region, while
partners can resell OCI cloud services and customize the experience
using Oracle Alloy. Oracle also operates separate U.S., UK, and
Australian Government Clouds, and Isolated Cloud Regions for U.S.
national security purposes. Each of these products provide a full
cloud and AI stack that customers can deploy as a Sovereign
Cloud.
- Hybrid cloud: OCI delivers key cloud services
on-premises via Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Compute
Cloud@Customer and is already managing deployments in over 60
countries.
- Multicloud: Options including Oracle Database@AWS,
Oracle Database@Azure, Oracle Database@Google Cloud, HeatWave MySQL
on AWS and Microsoft Azure, Oracle Interconnect for Microsoft
Azure, and Oracle Interconnect for Google Cloud allow customers to
combine key capabilities from across clouds.
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