Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
March 7, 2018
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News Flashes
Two key areas of technology that Oracle is innovating in are blockchain and IoT, according to Thomas Kurian, Oracle president of product development. Kurian spoke during the company's CloudWorld keynote in New York, which focused largely on demonstrating the benefits of cloud, automation, and artificial intelligence.
MariaDB is launching MariaDB Server 10.3.5, adding temporal data processing, Oracle compatibility features, and other improvements in its next candidate release. The announcement was first made during the MariaDB M|18 conference in New York.
Think About It
The term "big data" has been bandied about for a number of years now, to the point where it has been used so much that it is a part of IT culture. Hard to specifically define, yet everyone seems to have a good idea what is meant by it, big data is here to stay. And that is a good thing!
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Despite the prevalence of IoT devices in our day to day lives, many people still view IoT data as a future consideration for their organizations, or a data source that has yet to be tapped to its full potential. After all, how do you store, manage and make sense of the enormous amount of information that these devices collect, and can you really make "real time" changes with it?
"Are you a DBA? Larry Ellison wants to eliminate your job. I heard him say so at OpenWorld. Artificial Intelligence. Machine Learning. Autonomous Databases. Typewriter and Computer used to be job titles, but today those words refer to objects. Database Administrator will someday be an artificial intelligence bot. That's Larry's vision. Are you ready for that future? Or will you still be trying to make a living as a Typewriter?" says Jonathan Gennick of Apress.