Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
October 17, 2018
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News Flashes
These days, clouds are everywhere, providing today's database managers with an impressive range of options to choose from—including public cloud, private cloud, and, for most, somewhere in between in the hybrid realm. There may be multiple variations within a single organization, and these distinct hybrid environments are constantly evolving as well. These may be "intentional" and "accidental" hybrid environments, but accidental or not, "variety" is the watchword for many hybrid projects.
Oracle and NVIDIA have announced that Oracle is the first public cloud provider to support the NVIDIA HGX-2 platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, helping to meet the needs of the next generation of analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The companies are also announcing the general availability of support for GPU-accelerated deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) containers from the (NGC) container registry on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Think About It
We've all seen the movie about the kidnap victim whose family asks for a "proof of life." The proof is typically a photograph of the victim posed with a current newspaper. Blockchain technology is now allowing us to provide similar proofs for the existence of digital assets. The immutable nature of the blockchain—the fact that it is impossible to overwrite time-stamped blockchain ledger entries—allows us to create "proof of existence" entries for digital assets.
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Numerous Cloud providers continue to accentuate the positive implications of moving Oracle databases from enterprise systems like Exadata to a Cloud-centric environment such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or the Oracle Cloud. However, promises of lower licensing costs, improved application workload performance, and simpler system governance and orchestration have often been dashed when reality sets in.
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Organizations have adopted the cloud with open arms and for good reason, but not without challenges.