Oracle Exadata

NRI Selects Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer

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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced that Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has selected Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to run its critical, high-volume business platform used in various industries, including financial, retail, and distribution.

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  • REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., July 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced that Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has selected Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to run its critical, high-volume business platform used in various industries, including financial, retail, and distribution.
  • NRI will start by moving its SaaS applications for the financial industry, which are used by about 70 percent of the capital markets firms in Japan, from on-premises to an Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer in its own datacenter.
  • During NRI and Oracle's 30-year partnership, NRI has been an early adopter of Oracle technology and is now the first global customer to move to Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer.
  • "With Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, we can use Oracle Exadata as a cloud service and achieve greater agility, such as seamless expansion, while maintaining high availability at the same level as on-premises," said Tomoshiro Takemoto, Senior Corporate Managing Director, NRI.

Vast Edge Teams Up With Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider Program

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Vast Edge, Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that its Oracle Cloud Management Solution is now available, offering customers wide-ranging managed services for both Oracle and non-Oracle workloads running on Oracle Cloud.

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  • Vast Edge, Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that its Oracle Cloud Management Solution is now available, offering customers wide-ranging managed services for both Oracle and non-Oracle workloads running on Oracle Cloud.
  • The Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) program identifies and recognizes partners who have skills, tools and processes to build, deploy, run, and manage Oracle and non-Oracle workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Vast Edges participation in the Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider Program further extends our commitment and enables customers to easily reap the benefits of Oracle Cloud Platform.
  • Partners engaging with Oracle will be able to differentiate their Oracle Cloud expertise and success with customers through the OPN Cloud program an innovative program that complements existing OPN program levels with tiers of recognition and progressive benefits for partners working with Oracle Cloud.

nCorium, KIOXIA America, and EchoStreams Collaborate for High-Performance Storage Platform

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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Supercomputing 2019, Booth #1490 nCorium , in collaboration with KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.), the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation , and EchoStreams Innovative Solutions Inc. , today announced a new storage acceleration platform.

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  • Supercomputing 2019, Booth #1490 nCorium , in collaboration with KIOXIA America, Inc. (formerly Toshiba Memory America, Inc.), the U.S.-based subsidiary of KIOXIA Corporation , and EchoStreams Innovative Solutions Inc. , today announced a new storage acceleration platform.
  • Based on nCoriums second-generation, near-memory acceleration engines, KIOXIAs PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs and EchoStreams FlacheStreams Storage Server, this fully integrated solution is designed to perform storage functions in-line and stripe data to local or remote flash storage.
  • nCoriums storage acceleration platform delivers breakthrough capabilities by offloading compute-intensive functions to the near memory acceleration engines called nCorium Compute in Memory Modules (nCIMMs).
  • According to Andy Lee, director of product marketing at EchoStreams, near-memory acceleration is key to meeting the growing demand for high-performance storage.

New SwiftStack 7 Offers Ultra-Scale Performance and Capacity for Data Storage and Management from Edge to Core to Cloud

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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

SwiftStack , the leader in data storage and management from edge to core to cloud, today announced extensive enhancements to its data platform for performance, data utilization, and services at ultra-scale.

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  • SwiftStack , the leader in data storage and management from edge to core to cloud, today announced extensive enhancements to its data platform for performance, data utilization, and services at ultra-scale.
  • SwiftStack 7 offers new features to enable this ultra-scale performance, distributed ash-based caching, data immutability, and workow integration all with standards-based APIs.
  • SwiftStack 7 offers the following enhancements:
    SwiftStack drives previously unseen throughput performance at massive multi-petabyte scale and can handle thousands of simultaneous workers accessing data.
  • SwiftStacks data platform enables its customers to store, manage, control, and utilize many petabytes of unstructured data from edge to core to cloud.

Michigan State University Amplifies Student Success through the Cloud

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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EDUCAUSE -- Michigan State University , a leading higher education and research institution, has engaged Oracle to replace its mainframe student information system infrastructure.

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  • CHICAGO, Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- EDUCAUSE -- Michigan State University , a leading higher education and research institution, has engaged Oracle to replace its mainframe student information system infrastructure.
  • To reach these goals, the university charted an incremental path to the cloud and will be implementing several Oracle Cloud solutions, including Oracle Student Financial Planning (SFP).
  • Michigan State University also selected Exadata Cloud at Customer to operate PeopleSoft Campus Solutions in one hybrid cloud environment.
  • "Our partnership with Michigan State confirms our investment, commitment and success in the higher education market," said Keith Rajecki, vice president of Oracle Public Sector, Education and Research.

Expanded Pure Portfolio Makes Customer Data More Accessible Than Ever Before

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Pure is the first and only vendor to enable faster access to data wherever customers need it by delivering flash at disk prices.

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  • Pure is the first and only vendor to enable faster access to data wherever customers need it by delivering flash at disk prices.
  • "Businesses in every industry today rely on data analytics to make critical decisions," said Prakash Darji, General Manager for FlashArray, Pure Storage.
  • Today, the majority of organizations need to access their data at any given moment to drive better business results and decision making.
  • "We're excited to see Pure Storage introduce an all-NVMe, optimized capacity flash storage solution so organizations like ours can extract more value from data.

Oracle Delivers Choice of Deployment for its Next-Generation Cloud

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Oracle Cloud at Customer enables organizations to get all the benefits of Oracle Cloud Database delivered securely on premise in their own data centers.

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  • Oracle Cloud at Customer enables organizations to get all the benefits of Oracle Cloud Database delivered securely on premise in their own data centers.
  • With Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer, Oracle delivers an enterprise-scale database cloud service with significantly improved resiliency and automation, simplified deployment, and reduced costs compared to the previous generation.
  • In addition, Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer leverages a modern Cloud Control Plane that is deployed in the nearest Oracle Public Cloud region.
  • Customers can now use the same Gen 2 Oracle Cloud Web Interfaces and APIs to manage Exadata Cloud Service and Exadata Cloud at Customer.

Oracle Unleashes World's Fastest Database Machine

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --ORACLE OPENWORLD--Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8M, available today, sets a new bar and changes the dynamics of the database infrastructure market.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --ORACLE OPENWORLD--Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8M, available today, sets a new bar and changes the dynamics of the database infrastructure market.
  • "Oracle Exadata X8M significantly raises the bar for OLTP applications and simplifies database consolidation in demanding on-premises and cloud environments," said Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management Software, IDC.
  • "Any and all customers who want to improve their Oracle Database performance need to immediately evaluate this new offering.
  • Based on technology from Oracle Autonomous Database, the entire process is automatic and improves database performance while eliminating manual tuning.

Oracle and Intel Collaborate on Optane DC Persistent Memory Performance Breakthroughs in Next Generation Oracle Exadata X8M

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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ORACLE OPENWORLD Intel Corporation and Oracle today announced that Oracle is incorporating the high performancecapabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory into its next-generation Exadata platform, Oracle Exadata X8M .

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ORACLE OPENWORLD Intel Corporation and Oracle today announced that Oracle is incorporating the high performancecapabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory into its next-generation Exadata platform, Oracle Exadata X8M .
  • "By enabling faster analytics and enhanced response times our customers are experiencing what's possible with Optane DC Persistent Memory."
  • "Oracle and Intel have integrated cutting-edge persistent memory technologies into the leading enterprise database machine to deliver real-time access to the most mission-critical data.
  • Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory is a groundbreaking innovation in the memory-storage hierarchy that combines near-DRAM performance with the data persistence of storage.Enabled on 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Optane DC Persistent Memory enables greater total memory capacity per platform and much faster, byte-addressable access to persistent data than even the best-in-class SSD.

TidalScale Announces Breakthrough Flexibility and Performance for In-Memory Applications with Third Generation Software-Defined Server Technology

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Thursday, September 12, 2019

In addition to supporting a broader range of hardware ecosystem components, the third-generation technology incorporates an enhanced machine learning architecture.

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  • In addition to supporting a broader range of hardware ecosystem components, the third-generation technology incorporates an enhanced machine learning architecture.
  • This results in improved scalability and system performance with specific enhancements for Oracle Database and SAP HANA deployed on TidalScale-based platforms.
  • With these enhancements, TidalScale Software-Defined Servers provide insights from data faster and at larger scale than ever before.
  • Also this week, TidalScale announced it was named one of 20 Most Promising Oracle Solution Providers by CIO Review magazine.