Oracle Corp. is positioning itself with a trifecta in the enterprise computing world, offering infrastructure as a service, platform as a service and software as a service solutions to meet the needs of its large customer base. An example of how this plays out can be found in a simple online shipment order for one ...

Oracle Consulting has been undergoing its own transformation, from staff augmentation to offerings key to the business of its enterprise customers. Central to Oracle Consulting’s offering portfolio is the use of autonomous technology to understand data inside an organization and enable a cognitive platform to essentially teach itself. “This is probably the most exciting space that ...

When Oracle Corp. introduced its Generation 2 Cloud in 2018, the company went to great lengths to emphasize how the architecture was designed to support enterprise needs. The release was designed to address what top company officials saw as a previous generation of clouds that put customer data unnecessarily at risk through flawed security and failed ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced yesterday that it would launch a new business unit to extend cloud technologies into space. The business segment, which will be led by the former head of the Department of Defense’s Space Force, will focus on using AWS cloud services to process data from space operations. The latest news follows the introduction ...

There has been way too much lost in recent months: jobs, routine human interaction and, most importantly, lives. That has led one executive of Amazon Web Services Inc. to frame consequences of the global pandemic in terms of reassessing how governments handle technology as a critical solution for the recovery to come. In an opinion piece ...

While information-technology modernization has been an urgent priority for many private sector companies, the pace of change can often be slower in the U.S. government. However, one branch of the military has picked up the pace dramatically. The U.S. Navy and SAP National Security Services recently migrated a large enterprise resource planning system to Amazon ...

The year 2020 has emerged as a perfect storm of reporting for U.S. journalists. A pandemic that has already claimed the lives of 126,000 Americans would have been a major story by itself. Add in the significant economic impact of COVID-19, ongoing social protests in communities around the country, along with an upcoming presidential election, ...

As the full impact of COVID-19 began to spread throughout the U.S., state government agencies needed help. Many were overwhelmed with calls from citizens seeking medical assistance or unemployment support. The numbers were staggering. The Kansas Department of Labor received approximately 1.6 million calls from people requesting guidance for unemployment claims. Similar volumes were reported ...

When the average cellphone now has at least 10 different forms of electronic communication, it’s a sure sign that the process for capturing all of the data being generated is going to be a challenge for key players in the data-protection and availability space. For Veritas Technologies LLC, this has meant the introduction in February ...

Over the past several years, Veritas Technologies LLC has added new features and capabilities to its InfoScale technology. The software-defined bridge between tier-one applications and infrastructure was combined with Veritas’ NetBackup and Information Studio tools in mid-2019, and the company followed that up by further integrating its InfoScale portfolio with Pure Storage Inc.’s FlashArray last ...