Oracle’s first cloud region in France is now open
Oracle announced today the opening of its first cloud region in France. The move is meant to accommodate the increasing cloud computing demands from both public and private organizations.
The Oracle Cloud Marseille Region will offer customers and partners access to all of the company’s service...
Oracle releases new AI services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
New services for developers and data scientists help customers apply AI to enterprise scenarios.
This week Oracle announced availability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI services. This is a collection of services that make it easier for developers to apply AI services to their application...
Oracle brings cloud to where its customers are
You can say what you want about Oracle's cloud strategy, but the company is not taking any half measures. It has made major investments in recent years, the results of which are already visible. We interviewed Richard Smith, EVP Technology & Cloud EMEA at Oracle, about this. What has Oracle alr...
Telefonica to migrate its systems to Oracle’s cloud
The Spanish telecom company, Telefonica, signed a multi-year deal with cloud-services provider Oracle, to migrate most of its database to the cloud. The firms announced the deal on Monday in preparation for the use of IoT and 5G.
The telecoms company, which already used Oracle data systems, will...
Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement is about more than reducing costs
Cost reduction has traditionally been an important part of business operations when it comes to procurement. In the coming period, it may get an extra boost. After all, many organizations have had to invest heavily in the past year and a half to deal with the consequences of the corona crisis. Yet ...
Oracle’s Analytics Cloud gets updates
As part of the Oracle Live continued virtual events series yesterday morning, the Austin, Texas based database and enterprise analytics giant is announcing new and recent features to its cloud-based business intelligence product, Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC).
OAC was announced two years ago and ...
Oracle Cloud Lift offers free help with migration to OCI
Oracle is keen to make its cloud position as solid as possible. Over the past few months, we've seen several examples of this. Whether that's a partnership with Red Bull Racing, the simplification of the Autonomous Data Warehouse or the introduction of new edge devices for hybrid cloud environments...
Red Bull Racing chooses Oracle as cloud infrastructure partner
It seems like half the IT world is now linked in some way to a Formula 1 team. Today Oracle announces it has joined Formula 1 as well. Red Bull Racing Honda has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as their official cloud platform.
Will Max Verstappen be able to dedicate his first world titl...
Google and Oracle pledge to have an open cloud
The forced digital transformation that came in the wake of the pandemic forced many businesses and organizations to move to the cloud. However, there are some concerns about vendor lock-in and impedances to movement between different clouds.
To address issues like this one, Google and Oracle are...
Oracle introduces ‘Return to the Workplace Journey’
Oracle has released new functionality in its Employee Care Package, a part of Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM). The solution was initially launched in June and received an update in September. Oracle has now added even more features.
Here, the aim is to help HR teams with the logi...
Zoom doesn’t rely on cloud for their critical services
Turns out that Cloud infrastructure does not play as big a role as some would have us believe.
The COVID-driven explosion in remote working and online videoconferencing have made Zoom the darling of the tech world. Not surprisingly, notable big tech firms like Oracle and AWS have tried to jump ...
SOHO combines Azure and Oracle Cloud via interconnect
Setting up a so-called interconnect between the Microsoft Azure Cloud and the Oracle Cloud has been possible for some time now. This gives you a fast private connection between the two cloud environments and enables applications to be active in both environments. This feature is not yet very well k...