Category: Vendors

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. As a followup to my blog post Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 is GA, I wanted to give some pointers when using ADLS Gen2 as well as blob storage, as it can get a bit confusing with all the options that are available. Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 should be used instead of Azure Blob Storage unless there is a needed feature that is not yet GA’d in ADLS Gen2. The major features that are missing from ADLS Gen2 are premium tier, soft delete, page blobs, append blobs, and snapshots. The major features ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Anantha Ramachandran. Nonprofits (or not-for-profits) exist in a highly competitive world. According to a report from Giving USA, the sector is large and with one crucial exception, growing:Donations. American organizations and individuals provided record-breaking levels of support in 2017. Strong support continued in 2018, with total giving from individuals, foundations, and corporations exceeding $427 billion. That's a rise of 0.7 percent from 2017 giving or a 1.7 percent decrease after adjusting for inflation, and a 9 percent increase from the $390.05 billion in donations in 2016.Organizations. In Fiscal Year 2018, the Internal Revenue Service ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. As we move into the third decade of cloud computing, it’s important to remember that not all clouds are alike. Back in, say 2006, cloud computing services were a revelation to software developers. These rentable storage and compute services provided a handy virtual holding cell that developers could use for designing and prototyping new applications without breaking the bank, or requiring scarce cooperation from in-house resources. And that was all well and good for that time. Fast forward more than a decade and the status quo is a lot more complicated. As businesses of all ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: James Ding. Anomaly detection plays a vital role in many industries across the globe, such as fraud detection for the financial industry, health monitoring in hospitals, fault detection and operating environment monitoring in the manufacturing, oil and gas, utility, transportation, aviation, and automotive industries. Anomaly detection is about finding patterns in data that do not conform to expected behavior. It is important for decision-makers to be able to detect them and take proactive actions if needed. Using the oil and gas industry as one example, deep-water rigs with various equipment are intensively monitored by hundreds ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Noelle Walsh. For more than a decade, Microsoft has been investing to reduce environmental impact while supporting the digital transformation of organizations around the world through cloud services. We strive to be transparent with our commitments, evidenced by our announcement that Microsoft’s cloud datacenters will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2025. The commitments and investments we make as a company are important steps in reducing our own environmental impact, but we recognize that the opportunity for positive change is greatest by empowering customers and partners to achieve their own sustainability goals ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John 'JG' Chirapurath. At Microsoft, we are inspired by how artificial intelligence is transforming organizations of all sizes, empowering them to reimagine what’s possible. AI has immense potential to unlock solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges. One challenge is that according to the World Health Association, globally, only 1 in 10 people with a disability have access to assistive technologies and products. We believe that AI solutions can have a profound impact on this community. To meet this need, we aim to democratize AI to make it easier for every developer to build ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. To help customers easily move Oracle Databases to the cloud and simplify management of hybrid cloud environments, Oracle announced significant enhancements to its enterprise management platform, Oracle Enterprise Manager. The new release adds functionality that automates database migration and provides a single dashboard that improves visibility, control, and management for hybrid IT environments.  Oracle Enterprise Manager’s migration capabilities provide unprecedented flexibility and ease of use to accelerate and simplify the transition to the cloud. Since most large organizations have to move multiple databases to the cloud over an extended period of time, it’s critical to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Molesky. We’ve released our newest Azure blueprint that maps to another key industry-standard, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Microsoft Azure Foundations Benchmark. This follows the recent announcement of our Azure blueprint for FedRAMP moderate and adds to the growing list of Azure blueprints for regulatory compliance, which now includes ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, PCI-DSS, UK OFFICIAL, UK NHS, and IRS 1075. Azure Blueprints is a free service that enables cloud architects and central information technology groups to define a set of Azure resources that implements and adheres to an organization's standards, patterns, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Australia’s newest multipurpose venue, has selected Oracle’s industry leading food and beverage technologies to deliver speedy service and payment options to sports fans and concertgoers when the venue opens in February 2020.  Queensland Country Bank Stadium will become home to the NRL’s North Queensland Cowboys in their next season, and fans have made it clear they don’t want to miss any of the action. An Oracle study of more than 2,000 global sports fans revealed that nearly all–94 percent–buy food and beverages while at sporting events, and 58 percent said they would ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Popular Russian footwear chain, ZENDEN Group, deployed Oracle Retail to drive inventory productivity and elevate the customer experience with better inventory placement. Today, ZENDEN leads the Russian footwear market on profit per square meter, engaging about 3 million loyalty cardholders and having more than 74.4 million people visiting its stores. In the last five years, ZENDEN has sold 42 million pairs of shoes. With Oracle Retail, ZENDEN Group shifted from a manual planning process to adopt automated demand-driven assortment planning. The new process helps to ensure the right shoes are always in stock for its ... Read More