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With ‘Belonging Campaign,’ Oracle builds a culture where everyone is welcome
Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. Mark Jackley COPYWRITER, BRAND AND CONTENT MARKETING This is a syndicated post, view the original post here In a 2020 presentation to the Oracle Pride Employee Network (OPEN), Erin Uritus, CEO of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, shared a traditional Zulu greeting: “I see you.” The customary reply: “Because you see me, I exist.” Uritus noted that when it comes to seeing people in an organization such as Oracle, diversity and inclusion are essential elements. But the Holy Grail is creating a sense of belonging. “That’s not a bunch of New Age-speak,” she said. “It’s a ... Read More
Perseverance pays off: Sticking the landing is hard, but we have to try and accomplish hard things
Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. Stephen Hill SR. CONTENT DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST As the world watched, NASA’s latest rover, Perseverance, hurtled through the thin Martian atmosphere. Millions of people held their breath, along with several hundred mission specialists at NASA and JPL, while a small ATV landed safely on another planet. It took years of careful planning, traveling millions of miles through the harsh environment of space, for 7 minutes of heart-stopping action before it successfully landed in the Jezero Crater, where it will explore for signs of current and past life on the Red Planet. The engineering feat of ... Read More
Coming out trans at work: Two Oracle employees share their stories
Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This is a syndicated post, view the original post here Mark Jackley COPYWRITER, BRAND AND CONTENT MARKETING How do you recognize people—acknowledge that you truly see them as their authentic selves—when they’re going through something extraordinary but also just want to live their lives? It’s a balancing act coworkers must try to pull off—imperfectly, humanly—when a transgender employee comes out. “Transitioning is crazy hard,” says Maddie Smith, an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure principal engineer who came out in 2020. “And I was terrified of coming out at the workplace.” Many transgender people are wary of ... Read More
The smart city gets even smarter

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This blog post is syndicated, find the original post here Think of a city as a single living organism, coordinating all its parts to benefit the lives of its people and the environment. That promise could be achieved by connecting digital twins—cyberspace mirrors of the components that make up a city—into a citywide ecosystem. A digital twin is a virtual model of a real-world asset, such as a factory, electrical power plant, airplane, cargo vessel, car, wind turbine, or oil platform. A digital twin in the construction industry spans the lifecycle of a project, ... Read More
Are you ‘IoT ready’? Here are 10 questions to ask
Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This post is syndicated, please view the original here Avoid commoditization and create real business value for your IoT customers Communications service providers (CSPs) can have significant impact in 5G-powered IoT ecosystems since they already play an important enabling role to the enterprises and industries that will be most heavily impacted by the IoT. The IoT telecom services market is estimated to grow to approximately $18 billion USD in 2021, and the GSMA Mobile Economy report forecasts the IoT market will be worth more than $1 trillion by 2025. Of that market, only 5-10 percent will be attributable to connectivity. What are ... Read More
Five women who are taking on the COVID-19 pandemic
Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This is a syndicated post, view the original here When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, senior leadership at Oracle realized quickly that Oracle had a large role to play. One of the biggest weapons in the fight against the pandemic was data—and managing and analyzing that data has always been at the heart of what Oracle does. Oracle leaders gathered together a team of technologists and industry experts to meet the needs of both government officials and healthcare workers, from building the platform to help screen volunteers for COVID-19 clinical trials, to enabling people in ... Read More
The best of 2020: The 10 most popular Java Magazine articles
Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This is a syndicated post, view the original post here Did you read the one about records? The article about code review antipatterns? Elasticsearch? How about the listing of the 25 greatest Java applications ever written—from Minecraft to the U.S. National Security Agency’s Ghidra? Lambda expressions, anyone? These were the 10 stories that were most widely read. We hope you will enjoy spending a few minutes revisiting the best of 2020. #1 The 25 greatest Java apps ever written From space exploration to genomics, from reverse compilers to robotic controllers, Java is at the ... Read More
5G networks are blazing fast. Charging needs to keep up.
Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This is a syndicated post, view the original post here "Converged charging” unlocks 5G business potential for service providers and their partners. The hype around 5G is all about network speeds. But communications service providers know that a different kind of speed is even more important: speed of innovation. 5G will help service providers get new products out faster for both consumer and enterprise customers. Service providers won’t be able to get the full revenue benefits of innovation, however, without charging systems—the software that handles how much to charge customers for service—that can keep ... Read More
Face the change: Workforce diversity is built on corporate policy and grassroots effort
Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. This is a syndicated post, view the original post here “I’m from an area of Chicago where Black communities don’t always have an opportunity to see a future, to imagine ourselves as chief technology officers,” says Richard Thomas, Oracle senior marketing cloud consultant. But Thomas has a vision: to give back to the community through our Alliance of Black Leaders for Excellence (ABLE), an Oracle employee resource group. ABLE works with organizations, such as Black Girls Code, to help Black youth see themselves in a future where coding, programming, and engineering are the keys ... Read More
BrandPost: Oracle Cloud VMware Solution’s killer advantage
Feed: CIO. Author: . Only Oracle Cloud VMware Solution provides you with exactly the same experience as running VMware on-premises. And when they say “the same”, they really mean literally the same – so much so that if customers have on-premises VMware and Oracle Cloud VMware, they can manage it through the same VMware vCenter interface – VMware sees it as the same thing.This also makes lifting-and-shifting VMware workloads from on-premises to cloud easy because the cloud environment is exactly the same. There’s no refactoring of applications or reconfiguration of the environment necessary to get the workload into the cloud.Oracle ... Read More
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