Category: Vendors

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Eric Channing Brown, VP of Corporate Marketing. Popeyes sandwich shortage highlights the necessity of real-time inventory management So, you’ve hyped your product so well that you can’t keep enough on the shelves.  Nice work! This is the case with the new Popeyes chicken sandwich, as reported by BuzzFeed. Honestly, this sounds like a wonderful position to be in. What business owner wouldn’t want so many people clamoring for their products that folks are freaking out because of local shortages?  Well, not the “freaking out” and “local shortages” part. But, otherwise, good job ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle Data Cloud today announced that the Media Rating Council (MRC) has accredited Oracle’s Contextual Intelligence for Property-Level Ad Verification under the MRC and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Guidelines for the Conduct of Ad Verification. Developed via technology from its Grapeshot acquisition, Contextual Intelligence’s accredited database offers property-level categorization and can be used by marketers and agencies to avoid unsafe and brand inappropriate content, based not simply on keywords but also on the context in which they appear. To earn its MRC accreditation, Oracle Data Cloud completed a comprehensive audit and review of its technologies, ... Read More

Feed: Blog Post – Corporate – DataStax. Author: Louise Westoby, Senior Director, Product Marketing. When’s the last time you sat there patiently when a website or app took forever to load—either for personal or professional purposes? In the age of Amazon and smartphones, we all know how websites should work. When they don’t meet our expectations, we get frustrated.  For customer-facing sites, inefficient applications lead to disgruntled customers. For employee-facing enterprise apps, slow loading times lead to productivity decreases and unhappy staffers.  When we talk about expectations, we mean this: Nearly half of users expect sites to load in two ... Read More

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. During the months of August and September, Oracle Volunteers worldwide Focus on Education by finding or creating volunteer opportunities with their favorite education-focused nonprofit or public school. One educational nonprofit that is near and dear to our hearts is Oracle Education Foundation. Oracle Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization funded by Oracle and staffed by Oracle employees. Its mission is to help young people develop the technical acumen, creative confidence, empathy, and grit to become outstanding designers of solutions to people’s needs and the world’s problems. In the Foundation’s program, Oracle Volunteers coach students ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Skyler Hartle. It's always been a tricky business to handle mission-critical processes. Much of the technical debt that companies assume comes from having to architect systems that have multiple layers of redundancy, to mitigate the chance of outages that may severely impact customers. The process of both architecting and subsequently maintaining these systems has resulted in huge losses in productivity and agility throughout many enterprises across all industries. The solutions that cloud computing provides help enterprises shift away from this cumbersome work. Instead of spending countless weeks or even months trying to craft an effective ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ed Nightingale. Security and resource constraints are often at odds with each other. While some security measures involve making code smaller by removing attack surfaces, others require adding new features, which consume precious flash and RAM. How did Microsoft manage to create a secure Linux based OS that runs on the Azure Sphere MCU? The Azure Sphere OS begins with a long-term support (LTS) Linux kernel. Then the Azure Sphere development team customizes the kernel to add additional security features, as well as some code targeted at slimming down resource utilization to fit within the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Miri Landau. This blog post was co-authored by Rotem Lurie, Program Manager, Azure Security Center. Azure Security Center provides you with a bird’s eye security posture view across your Azure environment, enabling you to continuously monitor and improve your security posture using secure score in Azure. Security Center helps you identify and perform the hardening tasks recommended as security best practices and implement them across your machines, data services, and apps. This includes managing and enforcing your security policies and making sure your Azure Virtual Machines, non-Azure servers, and Azure PaaS services are compliant. Today, ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in Azure storage can be securely shared between a data provider and a data consumer. It does this by copying a snapshot of the data to the consumer’s subscription (called snapshot-based copying, and in the future there will be in-place sharing). It currently supports ADLS Gen1, ADLS Gen2, and Blob storage, and eventually will support Azure Data Explorer, SQL DB, and SQL DW. Check out ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. SoCalGas and Oracle today announced that the Home Energy Reports SoCalGas customers receive each month have helped reduce natural gas use by 10 million therms since the program began in 2013. This has resulted in customers saving more than $11 million on their bills. The savings is enough to supply 21,000 Southern California households with natural gas for a year and also has had the effect of eliminating more than 53,000 metric tons of carbon emissions. Home Energy Reports, included with most customer’s bills, show how much energy each household is using compared to similar ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Rimini Street’s latest attempt to avoid the District Court’s injunction barring Rimini Street from engaging in conduct that infringes Oracle's intellectual property rights. The Appeals Court also affirmed the trial court’s $28.5 million attorneys’ fees award to Oracle, rejecting Rimini's absurd claim that it had prevailed at a trial where the jury found Rimini infringed Oracle’s copyrights. Rimini Street has paid more than $90 million to Oracle as a result of that infringement, and the trial court issued a permanent injunction.   "We are extremely gratified that the ... Read More