Mitch Wagner

Google bets on multi-cloud

The cloud is like Tater Tots: So good, you can’t have just one — and according to analyst firm 451 Research, nearly every enterprise today supports multiple clouds. In fact, some 98% of enterprises are using, or plan to use, at least two cloud…

The metaverse hype bubble has popped. What now?

Remember the metaverse? The technology was the subject of a hype explosion, beginning in late 2021, when the company formerly known as Facebook rebranded itself as Meta, made a big investment in virtual reality and augmented reality. Mark Zuckerberg…

Cloud career moves – the feline edition

Cloud companies aren’t pussyfooting around, bringing fresh feline faces into the C-suite. This week’s edition of Cloud Career Moves is cat-themed. Once you’re done coughing up that hairball, read on to learn more. Moti Gindi, chief product officer,…

Oops! Google's new AI tool Bard showcases artificial stupidity

Google’s longstanding uncontested dominance of the search market faces its first serious challenge, as Microsoft unveiled an AI-powered chatbot with the potential to make conventional Internet search obsolete. Instead of typing search terms into a…

Cloud career moves - the Viking edition

Cloud companies are on the move, filling out their executive offices with fresh leadership. You know who else used to move around a lot? Vikings! So we’re giving this week’s episode of Cloud career moves a Viking theme. Grab a tankard of mead and…

4th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processor Packs Performance Punch For Enterprise Workloads

Today’s enterprises need fast application performance to deliver speedy customer transactions, as well as faster insights to guide strategic changes to keep pace with shifting markets. To achieve that agility, organizations need to run their compute…

4th Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors Help Cut Energy Use — Without Cutting Corners

Energy efficiency is becoming an increasingly critical business priority, as electricity costs climb. 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, launched last week, are the latest in the AMD line of server processors designed for performance and efficiency, to…

DEI in Tech: Some Progress, but Far Short of the Mark

Burton Kelso has owned and operated Integral, a Kansas City computer consultancy specializing in repairs for home-based and small businesses, for 29 years. Customers love him. He appears as a computer expert on live streams, podcasts, and local and…

Black colleagues bring their “whole, authentic” selves to Oracle

Oracle’s Leigh Causey thought she had to look a certain way to succeed professionally. “I thought your hair had to be straight and you had to be prim and proper in order to get a good job,” she says. That doesn’t describe Causey. “I’m loud. I’m…

Oracle’s Asian employees and allies unite against hate

More than 10,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been recorded between March 2020 and December 2021 according to the latest report from the nonprofit organization Stop AAPI Hate. Sadly, these kinds of crimes are…

How one university uses OCI (and Raspberry Pi) to wrangle IoT data

Researchers at the University of Melbourne are tackling one of the biggest challenges ahead in the next decade of computing: Making sense of the tsunami of data generated by Internet of Things devices coming online. The volume of data threatens to…

Is Java SE open source software? The short answer is ‘yes.’

With Java SE, Oracle has been committed to open source for more than a decade, but it was a long and winding road to get where Java is today. Is Java SE open source software? The short answer: Yes. Oracle has always been committed to open source with…

Fugaku, the world's fastest supercomputer, steers toward ‘Society 5.0’

The team that built Fugaku, the world’s fastest supercomputer, sees that triumph as a step toward building “Society 5.0”—solving some of the world’s biggest problems with the assistance of digital technology. "We will transform society and solve all…

Global investment bank Houlihan Lokey finds people, trust, and relationships drive cloud ERP migration

When global investment bank Houlihan Lokey set out to modernize its enterprise resource planning system, Chief Information Officer Allen Fazio warned his team that it would be a thankless task. “There are no statues built for people who put in ERP,”…

5 startups bringing AI, analytics, augmented reality, and more to retail

As the economy spins up, consumers are returning to physical stores, while also continuing to shop online. But the retail experience is changing. “A lot of people are keen to get back into the store and have that feeling of touching fabrics and…

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Week of August 9, 2021 Five tech startups help retailers use AI, analytics, and more to deliver personalized, interactive shopping. Mondelēz, the maker of Oreo cookies and RITZ Crackers, makes a tasty supply chain transformation. Thermo Fisher…

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Week of August 2, 2021 Kraft Heinz taps the cloud in a quest to become one of the best finance organizations in the food and beverage industry. The state of Maine brings innovation to the public sector with speedy analytics. Startup Halo Therapeutics…

Larry Ellison outlines software support discounts up to 33% for moving workloads to Oracle Cloud

Some customers will be able to eliminate support costs entirely for software such as Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic under the new program. Oracle is once again making it easier—and cheaper—to migrate to the cloud. Specifically, the company is…

Inside sellers work heroically to close deals

CRM needs to empower sellers, rather than forcing them to juggle multiple tools and systems. Pandemic precautions elevated inside sales to extreme importance—the primary channel connecting businesses-to-business companies with customers. The new…

Back to the arena: Sports venues tap tech to welcome returning fans

Fans are returning to live sporting events and concerts, but it’s a gradual, cautious return, with people feeling varying levels of comfort around COVID-19. For example, 60% of fans want social distancing to continue even when large events are deemed…