Oracle Cloud

Fujitsu and Oracle collaborate to deliver sovereign cloud and AI capabilities in Japan

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Donnerstag, April 18, 2024

Fujitsu will deploy Oracle Alloy, a cloud infrastructure platform that provides more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including generative AI, as part of its Fujitsu Uvance Hybrid IT portfolio, which supports customers with on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure.

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  • Fujitsu will deploy Oracle Alloy, a cloud infrastructure platform that provides more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including generative AI, as part of its Fujitsu Uvance Hybrid IT portfolio, which supports customers with on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure.
  • This will enable businesses and the public sector to utilize sovereign cloud infrastructure and sovereign AI directly from data centers operated by Fujitsu in Japan.
  • Our collaboration with Oracle positions us to deliver a sovereign cloud offering that enables hyperscale functionality and digital sovereignty capabilities while ensuring operational governance by Fujitsu."
  • Centralize operations and security policies across on-premises and hyperscaler environments: Fujitsu provides operational consulting services and Fujitsu Cloud Managed Service across cloud service providers' cloud environments, including Oracle Alloy.

Red Hat OpenShift Generally Available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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Montag, Mai 6, 2024

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Oracle today announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute Virtual Machines (VMs).

Key Points: 
  • Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Oracle today announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute Virtual Machines (VMs).
  • The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification and Red Hat OpenShift gives customers the confidence to install, migrate, and run Red Hat OpenShift workloads on OCI, supported by existing and transparent support agreements between Red Hat and Oracle.
  • Red Hat OpenShift on OCI is supported for customer-managed installations using validated configurations of Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes Engine.
  • Oracle is providing Container Storage Interface (CSI) software that enables OCI storage integration with Red Hat OpenShift, and Cloud Control Manager (CCM) software that enables API interoperation between OCI and Red Hat OpenShift platform.

Accenture and Oracle Collaborate to Help Clients Accelerate Generative AI Adoption, Starting with the Finance Organization

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Montag, Mai 6, 2024

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    Together, Accenture and Oracle will help clients across industries reinvent their businesses with generative AI, moving from experimentation to adoption at scale.
  • The companies will leverage Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI to help increase efficiency, improve resilience, and deliver superior customer and employee experiences, while keeping client’s data private and secure.
  • Leveraging its extensive AI engineering capabilities and drawing on its experience from hundreds of generative AI client engagements, Accenture provided early feedback to help shape and evolve the OCI Generative AI and product roadmap.
  • Accenture and Oracle plan to launch a specialized Oracle training program for clients within Accenture's AI academy to help cultivate future-ready talent and accelerate transformation with OCI.

Qualys Announces First Quarter 2024 Financial Results

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Dienstag, Mai 7, 2024

FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024. For the quarter, the Company reported revenues of $145.8 million, net income under United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("U.S. GAAP") of $39.7 million, non-GAAP net income of $54.7 million, Adjusted EBITDA of $69.0 million, GAAP net income per diluted share of $1.05, and non-GAAP net income per diluted share of $1.45.

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  • FOSTER CITY, Calif., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.
  • Non-GAAP gross margin was 83% for the first quarter of 2024 compared to 81% for the same quarter in 2023.
  • Based on information as of today, May 7, 2024, Qualys is issuing the following financial guidance for the second quarter and full year fiscal 2024.
  • Qualys will host a conference call and live webcast to discuss its first quarter financial results at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

Oracle Code Assist Can Help Developers Build Applications Faster with AI

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Dienstag, Mai 7, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced plans for Oracle Code Assist, an AI code companion, to help developers boost velocity and enhance code consistency. Powered by large language models (LLMs) running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and optimized for Java, SQL, and application development on OCI, Oracle Code Assist is planned to provide developers with context-specific suggestions that can be tailored to an organization's best practices and codebases. Oracle Code Assist will also be designed to be used to update, upgrade, and refactor code written in most modern programming languages.

Key Points: 
  • Oracle Code Assist is intended to help developers boost velocity, enhance code consistency, and will be optimized for Java, SQL, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure-based applications
    AUSTIN, Texas, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced plans for Oracle Code Assist , an AI code companion, to help developers boost velocity and enhance code consistency.
  • Deployed as a development environment plugin for JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA or Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Oracle Code Assist is planned to be specifically trained to provide expert, opinionated feedback to help developers build, optimize, and upgrade applications wherever they are run.
  • "Organizations leveraging Oracle Code Assist can help developers increase velocity and code consistency to improve the long-term maintenance of applications in a safe, rigorous, and compliant manner."
  • Developers working at Oracle are actively using Oracle Code Assist today to build new Oracle products and services.

Sysdig Launches Runtime Insights Partner Ecosystem to Combat Active Cloud Risk and Stop Attacks

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Donnerstag, Mai 2, 2024

Sysdig, the leader in cloud security powered by runtime insights, today announced the launch of the company’s Runtime Insights Partner Ecosystem, recognizing the leading security solutions that combine with Sysdig to help customers prioritize and respond to critical security risks.

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  • Sysdig, the leader in cloud security powered by runtime insights, today announced the launch of the company’s Runtime Insights Partner Ecosystem, recognizing the leading security solutions that combine with Sysdig to help customers prioritize and respond to critical security risks.
  • With Sysdig, ecosystem partners leverage Sysdig’s runtime insights to help organizations harden defenses, identify active cloud risks, stop attacks, and streamline cloud security from development through production.
  • “Continuously securing cloud-native environments requires accurate real-time insights at every stage of the cloud life cycle,” said Phil Williams, SVP of Corporate Development at Sysdig.
  • Sysdig partners help prevent cloud breaches and prioritize the most significant cloud risks using runtime insights.

Oracle Database 23ai Brings the Power of AI to Enterprise Data and Applications

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Donnerstag, Mai 2, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Database 23ai, the latest release of Oracle's converged database, is now generally available as a broad range of cloud services. This long-term support release includes Oracle AI Vector Search and more than 300 additional major features focused on simplifying the use of AI with data, accelerating app development, and running mission-critical workloads. The new AI Vector Search capabilities enable customers to securely combine search for documents, images, and other unstructured data with search on private business data, without moving or duplicating it. Oracle Database 23ai brings AI algorithms to where the data lives, instead of having to move the data to where the AI algorithm lives. This allows AI to run in real-time in Oracle databases, and greatly improves the effectiveness, efficiency, and security of AI.

Key Points: 
  • Oracle Database 23ai brings AI algorithms to where the data lives, instead of having to move the data to where the AI algorithm lives.
  • Oracle Database 23ai is available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) on Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer and Oracle Base Database Service, as well as on Oracle Database@Azure.
  • "Oracle Database 23ai is a game changer for enterprises worldwide, and because of the importance of the breakthrough AI technology in this release, we are renaming it to Oracle Database 23ai," said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, Mission-Critical Database Technologies, Oracle.
  • Oracle Database 23ai aims to solve this problem by enabling the coordination of vectors with customer's data using AI Vector Search.

Oracle and TIM Collaborate to Accelerate Cloud Adoption in Italy

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Donnerstag, Mai 2, 2024

MILAN and AUSTIN, Texas, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle and TIM today announced a collaboration to support the increasing demand for cloud services in Italy from public and private sector organizations. As part of the agreement, TIM's business unit dedicated to businesses and the public sector, TIM Enterprise, will integrate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) into its portfolio. In addition, TIM will become the host partner for Oracle's second planned cloud region in Italy, which will be located in Turin and hosted in TIM Group's reliable, next-generation datacenter.

Key Points: 
  • As part of the agreement, TIM's business unit dedicated to businesses and the public sector, TIM Enterprise, will integrate Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) into its portfolio.
  • In addition, TIM will become the host partner for Oracle's second planned cloud region in Italy, which will be located in Turin and hosted in TIM Group's reliable, next-generation datacenter.
  • This includes Oracle Autonomous Database , MySQL HeatWave Database Service , Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes , Oracle Cloud VMware Solution , OCI Generative AI service , and AI infrastructure .
  • As part of the collaboration, TIM will also use OCI to migrate some of the Group's internal applications to the cloud.

Oracle Energy and Water Awards Recognize Utilities Leading in Industry Transformation and Innovation

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Mittwoch, Mai 1, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Utilities are turning to modern digital technology as they face growing pressure to maintain grid reliability, improve customer service, and balance decarbonization goals. The annual Oracle Energy and Water Awards recognize some of the most progressive utilities in the world tackling these and other challenges. The 2024 winners include Exelon, JXN Water, and Portland General Electric. 

Key Points: 
  • The annual Oracle Energy and Water Awards recognize some of the most progressive utilities in the world tackling these and other challenges.
  • "As the water and energy landscapes and customer needs rapidly evolve, it is paramount for utilities to implement solutions that effectively help them meet their ambitious goals," said Creighton Oyler, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Energy and Water.
  • In tandem, Oracle Utilities solutions now provide an online customer portal and Oracle Customer Experience (CX) for Utilities manages call center service requests.
  • The Oracle Energy and Water Awards were presented in late March during the Oracle Energy and Water Customer Edge conference in Austin, Texas.

Vertex Selected to Join Oracle ISV Accelerator for SaaS Initiative

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Mittwoch, April 24, 2024

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vertex, Inc. (NASDAQ:VERX) (“Vertex” or the “Company”), a global provider of tax technology solutions and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that it has been selected to join the Oracle Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerator for SaaS Initiative.

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  • KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., April 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vertex, Inc. (NASDAQ:VERX) (“Vertex” or the “Company”), a global provider of tax technology solutions and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that it has been selected to join the Oracle Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerator for SaaS Initiative.
  • "Building on our longstanding relationship with Oracle, we are thrilled to join the Oracle ISV Accelerator," said Bradd Wildstein, Vice President, Indirect Sales at Vertex, Inc. "Through this partnership, Vertex can now enhance our customers' finance and sales processes by integrating essential tax solutions into Oracle Fusion Applications.
  • “Oracle and Vertex work together to provide our mutual customers with innovative tax solutions,” said Dan Haller, Vice President, North American Applications Ecosystem, Oracle.
  • We’re excited to have them join the Oracle ISV Accelerator for SaaS Initiative.”
    To learn more about how Vertex and Oracle work together to solve today’s toughest business challenges, click here .