Delivers support for scale production VMware workloads in a customer-controlled tenancy Customers include Entel, largest telecom provider in Chile and the third largest in Peru Building on the recent launch of Oracle Cloud@Customer, Oracle continues an aggressive push to deliver flexibility and scale that meets customers where they are in their cloud transformation. Today Oracle announced availability of Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, a dedicated, cloud-native VMware-based environment that enables enterprises to easily move…

Hi Adrian, please tell us about your role and the journey at Oracle. I am the Senior Vice President of Cloud Applications for Oracle in Japan and Asia Pacific, and I lead the business for Oracle’s Cloud offerings in the apps space. I first joined Oracle in 2002 as Vice President of Applications and Product Operations for Asia Pacific before taking on several other positions, including Vice President of the Applications Midmarket business unit. How is the SaaS market in the APAC region different from North America and…

New initiative expands cloud options for Oracle-based workloads including Oracle Database, Weblogic, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and Siebel Oracle announced 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…

First customer to adopt new Oracle Cloud offering Will be used for mission-critical, high-volume business platform to accelerate digital transformation Oracle announced that Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has selected Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to run its critical, high-volume business platform used in various industries, including financial, retail, and distribution. NRI will start by moving its SaaS applications for the financial industry, which are used by about 70 percent of the capital markets…

Addresses data sovereignty, security, and performance concerns that prevent some enterprise workloads from moving to the public cloud 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 capital…

Addresses data sovereignty, security, and performance concerns that prevent some enterprise workloads from moving to the public cloud 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 capital…

Oracle CPQ Cloud Customers Can Use Zilliant Price IQ to Turn Data into Actionable Pricing Intelligence, Accelerating Profitable Growth Zilliant, an industry leader in intelligent B2B price optimization, price management and sales guidance software, and Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced that its price optimization application, Price IQTM has achieved Integrated with Oracle Cloud status and is now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace offering added value to Oracle CPQ Cloud customers. Zilliant…

Scoring, detection and mitigation cloud service provides always-on communications security for enterprises and contact centers With a dependence on highly reactive, legacy communications security solutions, contact centers and enterprises are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated infrastructure attacks. To mitigate these threats, Oracle has launched the Oracle Communications Security Shield (OCSS) Cloud, a real-time communications security solution. Built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, the solution uses artificial…

Oracle Responsys continues industry leadership, scoring highest in strategy category and achieving the highest possible score in the artificial intelligence, analytics, and vertical capabilities criteria Oracle today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Research, Inc. May 2020 report, The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q2 2020. This year's report evaluated 13 email marketing service providers based on 23 criteria, which are split into three categories—current offering,…

BIAS Corporation, a leading IT Services company and award-winning member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has added Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS), Oracle Cloud Applications (SaaS), Oracle Construction & Engineering Cloud Services, and Engineered Systems and Hardware (including Servers and Storage software) to its GSA IT Schedule contract. This addition to BIAS's GSA schedule provides federal agencies, as well as other qualified agencies and participating organizations, streamlined access to Oracle…

Oracle Analytics for Cloud HCM brings ready-to-use workforce analytics to Oracle Cloud HCM customers Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Analytics for Cloud HCM. Built on Oracle Analytics Cloud and powered by Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Analytics for Cloud HCM provides HR executives, analysts, and line-of-business leaders with deeper insights into workforce management by enabling a comprehensive view into data from across the organization. The new self-service analytics capabilities help…

Powers meetings for millions of users at public and private organizations of every size Moved video meeting services from AWS for performance enhancements while saving more than 80 percent 8x8 solutions available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace Oracle announced that 8x8, Inc., a leading integrated cloud communications platform, is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to power its secure Jitsi.org and 8x8 video meeting solutions as it scales to handle explosive growth in users. 8x8 has seen a significant increase in usage…

MFA Integration with Duo Security Meant to Simplify and Strengthen Identity and Access Management and Enable Zero Trust for PeopleSoft Appsian, the global leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data security, has announced an integration with Duo Security, now part of Cisco, a leading multi-factor authentication (MFA) and Zero Trust solution provider. The strategic integration enables PeopleSoft customers to implement adaptive multi-factor authentication at login, as well as at the field, page, and component levels…

Zoom deploys Oracle Cloud within hours; enables millions of meeting participants within weeks Oracle announced that Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is turning to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support its growth and evolving business needs as the enterprise video communications company continues to innovate and provide an essential service to its extensive customer base. "We recently experienced the most significant growth our business has ever seen, requiring massive increases in our service capacity. We explored…

Delivers a comprehensive and authorized cloud for protecting the U.S. government's data To support growing customer demand, Oracle today announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-Government Cloud has achieved FedRAMP High Authorization. With the highest level of FedRAMP Authorization and DISA Impact Level 5 provisional (IL5 PATO) authorizations, Oracle Cloud can provide government customers with the stringent standards of security necessary to protect the federal government's data. Oracle is a long-standing strategic…

Oracle Cloud Management Solution Available to Help Customers Maximize Their Technology Investment Vast Edge, Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that its Oracle Cloud Management Solution is now available, offering customers wide-ranging managed services for both Oracle and non-Oracle workloads running on Oracle Cloud. “Vast Edge’s participation in the Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider Program further extends our commitment and enables customers to easily reap the benefits of Oracle…

Leading content streaming companies turn to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to enable fast digital storage, retrieval, and delivery to meet growing global demand As live streaming continues to represent a huge portion of all internet traffic, leading content providers – Phenix, Net Insight, and Mynet Inc. – have selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support growing global demand for streaming content. According to Go-Globe, live streaming is expected to account for 82 percent of all internet traffic this year, and the…

"Data Science is pushing the effectiveness of email marketing in new directions, bringing us closer to human interaction." From eBay to Google to Oracle, tell us about your journey in product innovation. My journey in Product Management started at eBay, during a time when Product Manager roles hadn’t been fully defined. I was the first Technical Product Manager hired at eBay to lead the establishment of a developer program, as well as set the strategic vision for their development platform. It was interesting to work…

Oracle JDK 14 represents more than two years of on-time six-month feature releases, bringing innovation and predictability to developers Oracle JDK 14 adds new features to improve developer productivity, including Java language support for switch expressions, new APIs for continuous monitoring of JDK Flight Recorder data, and extended availability of the low-latency Z Garbage Collector to macOS and Windows This new release includes three preview features: Pattern Matching for instanceof (JEP 305), Records (JEP 359) and…

Prakash Ramamurthy brings large-scale cloud platform success and proven experience in driving enterprise adoption. He was the SVP Product Development and GM at Oracle Cloud for 5 years.