1. Oracle delivers a second-generation cloud: OCI is built for innovation, includes scalability, availability, integrated governance control and reliability backed by the end to end SLAs. OCI supports emerging technologies such as AI, ML, IoT, blockchain and human interfaces. OCI provides faster and more predictable performance, better pricing and security, and enhanced compatibility for enterprise …
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Driving customer success with Oracle’s Partner Ecosystem
Oracle partners help ensure our customers have the solutions and guidance needed to achieve their desired business outcomes Over the past years, but especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen an acceleration in the pace at which organizations are looking to transform. Whereas in the past, some organization leaders thought moving quickly …
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Getting your GRC into the hands of decision makers
“Risk Culture – the values, beliefs, knowledge, attitudes and understanding about risk shared by a group of people with a common purpose.” Institute of Risk Management To successfully influence risk culture, we need great structural mechanisms or formal arrangements that support strong risk management practices in our systems, policies, procedures, and governance – and – …
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Analytics, Big Data And A Shocking Waste Problem
It’s a shocking fact that in the 21st century more than three quarters of a billion people do not have access to enough food to keep themselves healthy, while 30% of the food produced around the world goes to waste. It’s partly a problem of logistics – it’s expensive to keep food fresh and get …
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Big Data Analytics in Smart Cities: You Can’t Have One Without the Other
Who else loves to see data science applied in the real world? I know I sure do… And seeing that was one of the coolest things I got to experience this week here at World Cities Expo Istanbul (a smart cities conference). What I’m referring to here is big data analytics in smart cities. Big Data …
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Why the Hybrid Cloud Needs Managed Services
Cloud computing, in both public and private mode, has become the new enterprise standard. At the same time, enterprises are continuing to work with managed service providers for a widening range of IT solutions. These two trends are linked. In a survey of some 400 managed service providers (MSPs) last year, CompTIA reported that the percentage saying …
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Collaboration in the Cloud – A Unified Theory
In the first article of this series, I posited that a meaningful strategy for accomplishing collaborative work in the cloud can only be achieved by thinking more holistically than has traditionally been the case. The reality is that work collaboration that drives competitive advantage is a multi-faceted endeavor. It requires the adoption of multiple best-of-breed …
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Ignore These Two Paths to Cloud Failure at Your Own Risk
Congratulations! Your awesome startup is up and running; you’ve leveraged a ton of open source software and tools, leveraged some great SaaS products, deployed to the cloud and you’re scaling effortlessly with increasing demand. So what could go wrong? Many things, as it turns out, but two stand out: availability and security. Failure to manage …
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Cloud Computing Security
Cloud computing has quickly become a relevant technology within the information technology field over the past few years. This technology is powerful and useful but is a dual edge sword as security can become an issue quickly when placing data on web based storage servers. Information security is open broken up into C.I.A. (confidentiality, integrity, …
Cloud App strategy: Language as a competitive advantage, generalise it prudently
Me and my daughter have a special language. I try to build alternate and different sounding phrases for the common activities. This is not mother tongue, you might rather call it Father tongue. This is how I differentiate myself from my better half when it comes to getting my daughter’s attention. This strategy works most …
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