Cloud Leader, Week of July 31, 2017 |  Web View   Forward to a Friend CLOUD LEADER News and Analysis to Guide Your Strategy   Editor's Note Chasing a Bigger Goal Having set the world land speed record back in 1997, at 763 mph, a UK-based team is now going after the once-unthinkable 1,000-mph mark as part of a data-intensive endeavor known as the Bloodhound Project. The data analysis the Bloodhound team performs on its supersonic car, using Oracle Cloud, will inform ongoing design and engineering decisions as it readies its vehicle to make history on Southern Africa's Kalahari Desert sometime in 2019. The project's broader goal: inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists. The project, which shares its car data directly with UK primary and other schools for use in their courses, is in a unique position to get youngsters interested in STEM, because it links the rigors of those subjects to the excitement of extreme sport and competition. How it works. — Rob Preston, Editorial Director, Oracle Content Central Video: Data Essential to 'Survive and Succeed' at 1,000 MPH More Cloud News What's Driving Toyota's Transformation The Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) is a system of standard vehicle base designs that can be used across the full range of Toyota brands, so your Corolla and your C-HR may both be built with the same platform of components sitting beneath the leather seats and infotainment center. Learn why Toyota's CIO steered toward the cloud to help overhaul its car-making process. How Your Finance Org Can Help Win the Digital Race Say goodbye to reports that reflect only the past. Increasingly, monitoring must be done in real time through connected systems that enable finance to head off problems before they blow up and to recommend entirely new strategies based on data and in-depth knowledge of the business. What makes it possible? Rise of the Renaissance Database Administrator Many lower-level database maintenance tasks are increasingly being automated by cloud providers. At the same time, though, database administrators (DBAs) are assuming greater roles as analysts or consultants for their business, helping organizations draw insights from the data they are collecting. More on how DBAs can shift into this strategic role. Podcast: Trajectories and Career Paths of IT Stars Get Started with Oracle Cloud Experience Oracle Cloud with $300 in Free Credits  Accelerate Your Oracle Database in the Cloud  Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Rapid Development Kit  Video Why Oracle for Enterprise Big Data? Oracle's Paul Sonderegger explains how organizations can do real-time analytics and simplify access to data, using a modern big data platform, while preserving the investment they've made in skills and technology. Events Oracle Code August | Worldwide Oracle Big Data 2017 Implementation Boot Camp August 14–17 | Online Scale with MySQL in the Oracle Public Cloud August 25 | Online Oracle OpenWorld October 1–5 | San Francisco JavaOne October 1–5 | San Francisco Stay connected Subscribe to get Cloud Leader newsletter every week. Visit your profile page to subscribe to other Oracle publications.   Global Contacts     Sales Chat Live 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. Contact Us  |  Legal Notices and Terms of Use  |  Privacy 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.