| Week of February 12, 2018 |
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| Editor’s Note |  | Autonomous Platform
We’re entering the era of self-driving software—autonomous, cloud-based services that use machine learning algorithms to eliminate human labor and human error. Oracle is leading this shift. First, the company laid out its vision for the autonomous database, which patches, tunes, and upgrades itself without human intervention.
Now, Oracle is expanding that vision with Oracle Cloud Platform autonomous services, taking this self-driving approach to tasks in application development, application and data integration, conversational artificial intelligence, business analytics, security, and management. Read “Oracle Extends Autonomous Capabilities Across Its Entire Cloud Platform.”
—Chris Murphy, Oracle director of cloud content |
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| More Cloud News | | Among the Mack marketing team’s digital initiatives for the launch of Anthem, its first totally redesigned highway tractor in more than a decade: it distributed virtual reality viewers to potential customers, letting them take a VR tour inside the Anthem truck. What else? |
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| We’re grappling with no fewer than three transformational technologies: artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain. And, thanks to cloud computing, enterprises are rapidly adopting these technologies—and rapidly evolving. Your homework assignment |
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| The UK’s National Health Service installed an on-premises Oracle Exadata Database Machine to collect and analyze billions of data points on healthcare providers, patients, and the effectiveness of the prescriptions and treatments offered to combat diseases. One result is that NHS is able to contribute treatment recommendations to the national cancer registry. Other breakthroughs |
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| For starters, developers can ensure that their applications and data are continuously monitored using a cloud access security broker service and that any threats, compliance violations, or security incidents are automatically detected and remediated. |
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| Virginie Lafon founded 1Check, part of the Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator program, in 2014 while working as the head of housekeeping at a hotel in France. Her vision was to create an application to help hotel housekeeping staff work more efficiently and help hotel managers make better decisions. How it works |
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| “No one said, ‘you can have fun with code,’” says Michelle Malcher, a security architect. Perhaps due to lingering gender bias, or to simple oversight, women don’t always get the word about the opportunities for them in technology. Listen |
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| The January/February 2018 digital edition of Java Magazine, focused on reactive programming, is now available. |
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