Ahead of the Curve Now the cloud is getting interesting. Of course, it’s great that cloud helps you save money, deploy workloads faster, and spend less time managing systems, but that’s all well understood. “Now, customers are making requests for novel uses of the technology,” says Oracle President Thomas Kurian, in an interview with Profit magazine. For example, Oracle is working with an oil and gas exploration company that’s moving hundreds of terabytes of data to Oracle Cloud “as the foundation of their exploration and science algorithms,” Kurian says. There are hundreds of such examples, Kurian says. Get insights about some of the unique capabilities Oracle brings to these projects, and learn how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are changing enterprise cloud computing. Read Profit’s Q&A. —Aaron Lazenby, editor in chief, Profit magazine
Marketers Must Embrace AI Now Marketers waste so much time on time-consuming minutiae such as drafting copy and selecting images, says Reggie Bradford, senior vice president of Oracle’s Startup Ecosystem and Accelerator. Marketing needs to embrace artificial intelligence to let all these tasks be carried out and tested simultaneously, showing you the optimal options and letting you choose.
