Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
October 20, 2016
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: October 20, 2016. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Oracle Announces General Availability of Bare Metal Cloud Services
With Oracle OpenWorld 2016 now behind her, Alyssa Johnson, president-elect of the Oracle Applications Users Group, reflected on the latest developments and initiatives emerging from this year's Oracle conference for users and partners.
Snowflake Computing is making its platform more accessible to users with Snowflake On Demand—a sign-up process for data users to get immediate insight from Snowflake's data warehouse. According to the vendor, with a virtual swipe of a credit card on Snowflake's website, data users can access the only data warehouse built for the cloud. They can store and analyze their data without relying on their own IT group to get up and running quickly.