Oracle’s New Pricing Model Ignores the Value of Java

Scott Sellers, Azul President, CEO & Co-founder, breaks down why Oracle’s recent pricing changes could be the tipping point in accelerating the shift towards third-party Java runtimes

Oracle and NVIDIA Partner to Speed AI Adoption for Enterprises

Expanding their longstanding alliance, Oracle and NVIDIA today announced a multi-year partnership to help customers solve business challenges with accelerated computing and AI. The collaboration aims to bring the full NVIDIA accelerated computing stack — from GPUs to systems to software — to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Why CIOs Should Care About Blockchain

In this contributed article, Maria Colgan, distinguished product manager on the database team at Oracle, discusses how blockchain is starting to play a big – and growing – role in her work-life, and the world of databases where she spend much of her time. Blockchain is about much more than the Bitcoins of the world; its fundamental attributes of security, authenticity (what Blockchain folks call “immutability”), and strict recording of events can be applied to many applications, from financial data to contracts like property titles or government records.  

Government Change Through Data Analytics

When used effectively, data analytics can help to save lives, improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and help government deliver better citizen services. This special GovLoop report explores how data analytics is changing Government.

SGI UV 300RL Speeds In-Memory Analytics with Oracle Databases

Today SGI, a global leader in high-performance solutions for compute, data analytics, and data management introduced the SGI UV 300RL for big data in-memory analytics. As a new model in the SGI UV server line certified and supported with Oracle Linux, the SGI UV 300RL provides up to 32 sockets and 24 terabytes of shared memory. The solution enables enterprises that have standardized on Intel-based servers to run Oracle Database In-Memory on a single system to help achieve real-time operations and accelerate data analytics at unprecedented scale.