Cloud Leader, Week of January 30, 2017 |  Web View   Forward to a Friend CLOUD LEADER News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy   Editor's Note How to Ship Quickly, and More When you're "an engineer who builds stuff," like Matteo Frigo, life's not just about perks and stock options. A lifetime of algorithmic expertise earns you access to the best people—and the hardest problems. That's the opening of a profile of Frigo, who after helping architect the Amazon Web Services Elastic File System, moved to Oracle to work on its cloud and build a team of experts in Boston. But this profile is about Frigo more than Oracle, sharing Frigo's sometimes contrarian views on how to ship tech projects quickly, when Agile works and when it doesn't, and how to stay motivated in the demanding world of high tech. — Chris Murphy, Oracle Director of Cloud Content Video: Don Johnson on the Cloud's "Inflection Point" More Cloud News Top Five Priorities for CFOs in 2017 Have the strategies that once served your finance organization well become an anchor weight? CEOs increasingly look to finance leaders for the data and insight to re-evaluate the business—its strategic direction, the competitive landscape, potential new business models, and how operations must change to support all of the above. For CFOs to meet that expectation, here are five priorities to focus on in 2017. Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator Program Extended to Seven More Cities Oracle's Startup Cloud Accelerator program gives select early-stage tech-powered startups six months of mentoring, office space, and free cloud services. Now Oracle is expanding this program, launched in Bangalore, India, in April 2016, to seven other cities worldwide, including Mumbai, Paris, Tel Aviv, and São Paulo. "Oracle understands that startups are at the heart of innovation," says Oracle's Reggie Bradford. How Oracle can help startups. Cloud Computing Therapy: Join These Straight-Talk Sessions After more than 30 years in the IT infrastructure industry, Oracle's Chuck Hollis jokes that he is a "cloud therapist" for many enterprise IT leaders. "They know they have a big challenge ahead of them; they just need to talk about it," Hollis says. Well, the doctor is in. Hollis and Dave Vellante, from the technology talk show theCube, are hosting a series of four interviews, each approaching the enterprise IT cloud challenge from a different perspective. How can you join? Oracle Marketing Cloud Teams with Eyeota to Enhance Global Data Offering Get Started with Oracle Cloud Free Trial: Oracle Cloud for Java  Code Much? Come Speak at or Attend a Developer Event Near You  Ebook: Your Complete Guide to Modern ERP  Video: Top 10 CIO Priorities for 2017  Free Oracle SaaS Webinar Series: New Features Previews for Release 12  Cloud Innovator Beachbody Expands While Customers' Waistlines Shrink Exercise and nutritional supplement company Beachbody relies heavily on web-based transactions and webcasts—and an online network for its 450,000 independent consultants, who help the company generate annual revenue of more than $1.3 billion. Yet Beachbody doesn't want a bulky IT operation. That's why the cloud is becoming more important as the company grows. 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