Tag: innovation

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. Based in Mountain View, CA, vArmour, a data center and cloud security company, provides vArmour DSS Distributed Security System—software to help protect critical applications and workloads. The company was recently awarded patent number 9,521,115 from the USPTO for security technology for container microservices. Marc Woolward, CTO of vArmour, who is the inventor of the technology, described what’s changing in the world of clouds, containers, and microservices, and the issues that need to be addressed now.What does vArmour provide?We provide security for cloud environments. We have a distributed security system that is 100% ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Today Oracle announced that leading North America retailer Ardene has implemented Oracle Retail Merchandise Operations Management to support its immediate and long-term international expansion. The fashion retailer is empowering merchants, and planners as they transform their promotions planning, merchandising, and inventory management for its more than 400 stores in Canada and the U.S. Ardene launched its business transformation when growth began to test the limits of the company’s critical merchandising and store systems. The retailer partnered with systems integrator OLR Group to roll out the Oracle solutions and enable streamlined integration with Ardene’s existing information ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Wednesday, January 11, 2017 By Amanda Minnich, PhD student in Computer Science at the University of New Mexico The freedom to focus on computational problems instead of infrastructure pays dividends for all kinds of machine-learning workloads, regardless of the algorithm used. Editor’s note: In this guest post, computer science PhD candidate Amanda Minnich describes the role of Cloud Dataflow in processing data for sentiment-analysis research. Many people depend on online reviews before making ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Tuesday, January 10, 2017 By Frances Perry, Software Engineering Lead at Google and Apache Beam PMC Member Apache Beam is now a Top Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation, and its future looks brighter than ever — including for Google Cloud Dataflow users Today, the Apache Software Foundation announced that Apache Beam has successfully graduated from incubation, becoming a Top Level Project following the community-driven development processes of the foundation. Congratulations, Apache ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Thursday, January 5, 2017 By Matthieu Mayran, Solutions Architect, Google CloudImplementing a cost-effective architecture for long-running tasks can be complex; this solution based on Google Cloud Pub/Sub can help. Although processing long-running workloads is a ubiquitous task across various industries, it can still be a cumbersome task to build cost-effective architecture that supports it. Whether we talk about video transcoding, image processing, speech transcription or even machine learning to name a few, finishing ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Today Oracle announced, focused exclusively on tri-sport products and services UK-head-quartered specialty ecommerce retailer Wiggle (www.wiggle.com) is using Oracle solutions to sustain record sales and enable expansion into new markets.  The leading global online tri-sports retailer, founded just nine years ago and which last year completed its acquisition of Chain Reaction Cycles (CRC), went live on 31st October 2016 with its new retail platform comprising Oracle Retail Merchandising System (ORMS) and Oracle Merchandise Financial Planning (OMFP). The new platform performed admirably throughout the peak trading period of both Black Friday and Christmas. Wiggle, already using ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced that the Oracle Cloud continues to experience unparalleled growth, adding thousands of customers in Q2 FY17. Leading organizations across more than 195 countries and countless industries rely on Oracle Cloud to help reduce cost and complexity, while gaining a competitive advantage in their respective markets.  Oracle Cloud today manages more than 55 billion transactions each day for companies ranging from Fortune 500s to emerging challengers, including Brinks, Doosan, Falkonry, G&J Pepsi Bottling, GE, Pernod Ricard, RadioShack, Safe Ports, T-Mobile, Trek, University of Kansas, and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “Leading organizations are ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Today, Oracle announced that Saudi Arabia’s largest supermarket retailer, The Panda Retail Company, has deployed the suite of Oracle Retail Merchandising, Oracle Retail Planning, Oracle Retail Supply Chain, and Oracle Retail Store Inventory Management to optimize core retail operations and underpin additional business diversity in line with its planned growth and customer centric strategy. The Panda Retail Company employs 25,000 people and operates more than 475 hypermarket, supermarket and convenience stores throughout Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt.   The Oracle solutions enable Panda to surface salient insights to critical performance indicators including sales, ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Wednesday, January 4, 2017 Posted by Justin Kestelyn (@kestelyn), Google Cloud Platform This new guide helps users map data warehousing concepts and terminology to those used in BigQuery. At the highest level, data warehousing can be understood as simultaneous investments in integrating enterprise data to create a single source of truth, and in making that single source of truth an engine for decision-making for the right people at the right time — in ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Tuesday, January 3, 2017 Posted by Sara Robinson and Guillaume Laforge, Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocates The GA release of Cloud Natural Language API is easier to use, better at recognizing language nuances and adds additional support for Spanish and Japanese. Earlier in November, we announced general availability for the Cloud Natural Language API and highlighted the key new improvements. This launch included many additions to the API like expanded entity recognition, granular ... Read More