Oracle Corporation wants to offer a low-cost, highly streamlined platform upon which companies can spark innovation, said Neil Mendelson, Vice President of Big Data at Oracle. His company plans to leverage the combination of Big Data framework Hadoop and Oracle’s own Exadata line of IT products to offer businesses the opportunity “to see a new insight ...

Juan Loaiza, Senior Vice President of Oracle Corporation‘s Systems Group, said that Oracle Exadata Database Machines have never been faster — in fact, they are faster than anything else currently on the market. He sat down with Dave Vellante and John Furrier on theCUBE at the Oracle Next Generation Engineered Systems Launch to offer insight into what Oracle ...

Oracle customers are looking for ways to “divest themselves of tech responsibilities,” said Mike Palmeter, Senior Director of Product Engineering at Oracle.  They want to go up the stack instead of focusing their efforts on low-level infrastructure in order to differentiate, he explained. Oracle is supporting their customers’ efforts by providing engineered systems fine-tuned to business ...

Mobile, cloud, and analytics are taking the enterprise into uncharted territory, and Oracle is poised to help them conquer this new realm, according to Matt Eastwood, Group VP & GM of the Enterprise Platform Group with the research firm IDC. Big businesses have realized the need to become more efficient in traditional environments while also capitalizing on ...

Oracle‘s long years of investment in engineering is paying off in a big way, said John Fowler, EVP of Systems at Oracle. The goal, he explained, was to build, “bigger, more powerful systems that are more cost effective because they’re integrated.” A strategy like that, though clear-cut, can take a long time to come to fruition. ...

More government agencies are using Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) to get more done while their budgets remain stagnant. Aaron Hughes, systems architect at the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, said that his organization has been using AWS cloud for over three years to enable government scientists to “track different wildlife species and ...

“Our customers don’t win unless the ecosystem wins,” said Terry Wise, Director of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS). This realization, he said, has lead to a “tweaking” of the AWS strategy. Their current objectives include: Making it easier for customers to use AWS services Expanding and supporting the ecosystem Wise ...

As more customers begin to migrate production workloads to the Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud, Splunk seeks to provide customers with “service assurance,” said Splunk, Inc. SVP and GM of Cloud, Marc Olesen. Splunk aims to “be where [their] customers are,” explained Olesen, which is why it has so closely followed cloud adoption ...

Monitoring the state of oil pipelines built far from metropolitan areas is no small task, but the Willbros Group, Inc. tackles it with help from Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS). Jason Cradit, VP of Information Systems at the Willbros Group, Inc, said that his employer chose AWS because connectivity and analytics are paramount to ...

In the cloud, companies need security that can compensate for a “broader attack surface” and a new array of “threat vectors,” said Steve Pao, GM of Security at Barracuda Networks, Inc. As Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to provide more options for hybrid cloud and pay-as-you-go subscriptions, Barracuda’s security services have moved hand-in-hand with Amazon’s values. Not ...