| Cloud Leader, Week of May 8, 2017 | Web View |
|
| | CLOUD LEADER | | News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy |
| | |
| | Editor's Note | | Petabytes of Data
AT&T will migrate thousands of its existing Oracle Database instances and related application workloads to run in Oracle Cloud as part of a long-term agreement under which it will tap Oracle platform-, infrastructure-, and software-as-a-service offerings. Those AT&T databases and applications, which underpin a range of the global telecom carrier's services, contain many petabytes of data. Oracle CEO Mark Hurd called it a "historic" agreement, and it's one that should be of interest to IT leaders considering how to move existing workloads to the cloud.
AT&T is in the midst of virtualizing and software-controlling its global wide area network, enabling it to introduce new services more quickly and enable "a seamless and intuitive network experience for our customers," says John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president of AT&T Technology and Operations. "This collaboration with Oracle accelerates our network transformation and migration to the cloud to expand efficiency and performance and reduce cost while improving overall customer service." The first step. | | — Rob Preston, Oracle editorial director |
|
| | More Cloud News | | The CFO's New Team
"The cloud plays a big role here, but so do people," says Oracle's big data strategist Paul Sonderegger, in describing how CFOs must add to their technology tools and ensure that these new technologies integrate into their existing enterprise architecture. "CFOs need to build data science teams to quickly create and test new hypotheses about the business." Where should CFOs begin? | NetSuite and the Elephant in the Room
There was a big question on everyone’s mind at the recent SuiteWorld event: how would things change now that Oracle has acquired NetSuite? Jim McGeever, executive vice president of Oracle’s NetSuite, reassured customers that the cloud application provider would remain its own business unit and described five ways NetSuite can now deliver more as part of Oracle. | Marketers Can Leverage Oracle Data On LinkedIn
Oracle now integrates into LinkedIn’s advertising platform, called Campaign Manager, making it possible for customers of Oracle Marketing Cloud to leverage their first-party data for targeting securely and anonymously on LinkedIn. How this capability gives Oracle customers a big advantage. | Building Brand Consistency in an Omnichannel World
Here are the four big benefits of the new Oracle Content and Experience Cloud, a content hub that delivers a single cloud-native platform for content production, management, and delivery across lines of business. | Terraform Provider Adds Built-in Cloud Support
HashiCorp's Terraform, an open source orchestration tool for provisioning cloud infrastructure, now fully supports Oracle Compute Cloud with a built-in Terraform provider for Oracle Cloud services. How to use it. |
|
| | Get Started with Oracle Cloud | | Experience Oracle Cloud with $300 in Free Credits
|
|
| | Video | | Oracle’s IoT Lets Noble Plastics Better Serve Its Customers
“These cloud projects are made to be customized, so I see them as a good companion to our robotics,” says Scott Rogers, technical director at Noble Plastics. Here, he explains how the Oracle Internet of Things enables the company to be more competitive and to better serve its customers. Here's how. |
|
| | | | | | | | | Please send questions or comments to newsletter_feedback_us@oracle.com. | | This document is provided for information purposes only, and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor is it subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document, and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission. | | Copyright © 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. | | Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. AMD, Opteron, the AMD logo, and the AMD Opteron logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. | | | | Oracle Corporation - Worldwide Headquarters, 500 Oracle Parkway, OPL - E-mail Services, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, United States | | Your privacy is important to us. This email was sent to you because you subscribed to this newsletter. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. |
|
|
