Storing database backups off-site is critical for your enterprise to be disaster ready. To reduce application downtime, stored data must be accessible 24x7. Enter the Oracle Database Backup Service. Storing backups in the Oracle Cloud provides a great alternative to more expensive and resource consuming data protection and remote vaulting capabilities. Its pricing and operational…

Perhaps, if you have been living under a rock on a far distant planet, void of anything technical and perhaps, if the internet is not delivered directly to your home, work, phone or car then perhaps, just perhaps, you have not heard of the IT rage known as ‘Virtualization’. The more likely scenario, however, is…

Oracle Advanced Analytics 12c, delivers parallelized in-database implementations of data mining algorithms andintegration with R. Data analysts use Oracle Data Miner GUI and R to build and evaluate predictive models and leverage R packages and graphs. Application developers deploy OAA models using SQL data mining functions and R. Oracle extends the Database to an analytical…

The Italian Ministry of Labor and Social Policy (MLPS) is a branch of the Italian government responsible for all labormatters, including employment policies, promotions, worker protection, and social security. In its evolution towards a digital government, MLPS is streamlining and simplifying its administrative processes. MLPS has embarked on a data-driven journey to redefine business models…

Oracle has recently released a new big data product. Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph offers a set of analytic services and data models that support Big Data workloads on Apache Hadoop and NoSQL database technologies. Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph includes two main components. A property graph database with 35 built-in graph analytics…

With more and more malware attacks each minute, well-publicized and costly data breaches, device proliferation, and individuals profiting from the misuse of valuable data, protecting your Oracle Database data end-to-end has never been more critical. Join experts from the Oracle Managed Cloud Services team and Oracle’s ZFS Storage team to learn about key considerations and…

The dream of a seamless enterprise cloud implementation is getting closer every day. But rather than letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, Oracle is building a massive cloud that takes advantage of the massive speed and scale of Oracle ZS today. We’ll discuss what tools and techniques are available — right now…

Cloud ERP systems are about to become smarter, enabling higher worker productivity, organizational efficiency and revenue generation. 'How so' you ask? AI-based ERP systems, working symbiotically with smart wearables, will help identify business opportunities, profile meeting participants, take notes, document decision criteria, update opportunities, and create action items on behalf of users to accelerate sales…

Oracle’s Virtual Computing Appliance (VCA) provides performance, flexibility and manageability capabilities. In most companies the time between requesting a database and implementing a database can take weeks. Also, in many companies there are databases with different database setups, Operating systems, and environments. The delay in delivering the database and different database setups delay resolving issues…

SW in Silicon is custom hardware targeted at specific higher level functions traditionally implemented in software. Cloud based applications, especially analytics, offer many opportunities for SW in Silicon features. SW in Silicon in SPARC M7 provides gains in Performance, Power, Security and Memory Capacity. The Oracle RDBMS automatically uses these SW in Silicon features. Other…