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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
Pennsylvania State University Joins Oracle Academy to Help Students Become Cloud Developers and Technology Leaders
Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Pennsylvania State University Joins Oracle Academy to Help Students Become Cloud Developers and Technology Leaders Penn State’s 22 Campuses Gain Free Cloud Resources, Curriculum, Faculty Training, and Technology Redwood Shores, Calif.—Oct 28, 2020 Today, Oracle announced that The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) will now offer Oracle Academy computing education curriculum and resources across 22 campuses, which serve nearly 100,000 students. Through the collaboration, students receive hands-on technology experience and develop skills to become career-ready in the era of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, data science, and beyond. “In today’s economy, technology is ... Read More
How 8×8 Handled the Cost of Giving Free Video Meetings to the World

Feed: Oracle Blogs | Oracle Blogs. 8x8 moves to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from AWS and saves 80%. By Alexa Weber Morales | August 2020 If you ask Vik Verma, we’re living in the golden age of communications for all the wrong reasons. He talks often about using technologies such as videoconferencing linked to analytics to improve how businesses manage “the last mile” of communication with customers and employees, particularly during this pandemic. An affable man and charismatic speaker, Verma’s relaxed style is fitting for the CEO of 8x8, a Silicon Valley communications company. But it belies the pressure of an expensive decision ... Read More
Sultanate of Oman Launches Major National Project to Strengthen Digital Economy
Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Sultanate of Oman Launches Major National Project to Strengthen Digital Economy Selects Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to Realize Country’s Vision for 2040 Redwood Shores Calif—Jul 13, 2020 Today Oracle announced that the Government of the Sultanate of Oman has selected Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to support the Government’s national initiative to accelerate digital transformation across more than 120 government and semi-government entities with an integrated Government Cloud (G – Cloud) platform. The initiative is led by the Oman Information and Communications Technology Group (OICTG), a new entity established by the Oman Investment Authority ... Read More
Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC Explores Breakthrough Tissue “Fingerprints” Concept for Cancer Diagnostics Using Oracle Cloud Technology
Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC Explores Breakthrough Tissue "Fingerprints" Concept for Cancer Diagnostics Using Oracle Cloud Technology Tissue “fingerprinting” enables deep-learning algorithm to predict biomarkers, prognosis and theragnosis, set to improve understanding of cancer biology and accelerate clinical workflows, new research finds. Los Angeles and Redwood Shores, CA—Jul 9, 2020 The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC (“Ellison Institute”) and Oracle reveal a promising two-step technique to train a high-confidence predictive algorithm for enhanced cancer diagnostics. The study uses novel tissue “fingerprints”—discriminating microscopic hematoxylin and eosin ... Read More
Oracle Awarded Framework Agreement from Government of Canada
Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Awarded Framework Agreement from Government of Canada New initiative expands cloud options for Oracle-based workloads including Oracle Database, Weblogic, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and Siebel Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 9, 2020 Oracle announced today the award of a Framework Agreement for the provision of secure cloud services to the Government of Canada. This agreement gives Oracle's Canadian federal government customers the ability to securely store, manage and process sensitive data and applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Focused on a “cloud-first” strategy, the Government of Canada uses cloud services as its preferred delivery option ... Read More
Oracle Announces Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Announces Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer Industry’s first fully managed cloud region brings 100% of Oracle’s public cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud applications, to customer datacenters Pricing starts at only $500K per month, a small fraction of what customers would have to pay for a one-off region from other cloud providers Customers include Nomura Research Institute (NRI) in Japan and Oman Information and Communications Technology Group Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Driven by strong customer demand, Oracle today announced Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, the industry’s first fully-managed cloud region that ... Read More
Oracle Autonomous Database Now Available in Customer Datacenters
Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release Oracle Autonomous Database Now Available in Customer Datacenters Addresses data sovereignty, security, and performance concerns that prevent some enterprise workloads from moving to the public cloudCrédit Agricole, Entel, and Samsung SDS welcome Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Building on the success of Oracle’s Exadata Cloud@Customer service over the last three years, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer. This new offering combines the latest Oracle Database with the fastest Oracle Database platform—Exadata—delivered as a cloud service in customer datacenters. It eliminates database management and ... Read More
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