Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
June 17, 2020
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News Flashes
CoreSite Realty Corp. has announced on-demand connectivity to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect on the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange. Architected to meet the needs of the enterprise, Oracle Cloud is a Generation 2 enterprise cloud that delivers compute and networking performance and a portfolio of infrastructure and platform cloud services from application development and business analytics to data management, integration, security, AI, and blockchain.
Oracle announced fiscal 2020 Q4 and fiscal 2020 full year results. Oracle announced fiscal 2020 Q4 and fiscal 2020 full year results. "In Q4, we launched a vastly improved version of our Exadata Cloud@Customer service," said Larry Ellison, Oracle chairman and CTO. "Exadata Cloud@Customer now enables our existing on-premise database customers to run the Oracle Autonomous Database in their own data center; previously, the Oracle Autonomous Database was only available in Oracle's Gen2 Public Cloud. Enabling all our on-premise database customers to upgrade and run Oracle's latest and best database technology in their own data center should dramatically accelerate the rate of adoption of the Oracle Autonomous Database … especially by our largest customers, including banks and governments that are not currently planning to move their largest and most critical systems to a public cloud."
Oracle has helped the State of Oklahoma deal with new work-from-home challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.Before COVID-19, the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise IT desk fielded about 500 support calls a month, but that number quickly escalated to more than 1,500 calls per day, said Jerry Moore, CIO, State of Oklahoma.
Think About It
This year more than ever before, customers are turning to online transactions in response to decreased physical mobility due to the COVID-19 crisis, employees are working from home, and an uncertain economy is demanding smarter ways to compete. At the root of all these capabilities is data and the ability to analyze and act on data-driven insights. What technologies are coming to the forefront to enhance enterprises' ability to compete on data? We asked a number of leading industry experts and solution providers to describe what they see as the most impactful technologies shaping today's data environments.
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