We’re here in sunny San Jose California for the return of an event that’s been a long-time coming: NVIDIA’s in-person GTC. The Spring 2024 event, NVIDIA’s marquee event for the year, promises to be a big one for NVIDIA, as the company is due to deliver updates on its all-important datacenter accelerator products – the…
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Microsoft has posted revenue of $56.5bn, up 13% for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, partially driven by demand for its AI-infused (artificial intelligence) products and the Azure public cloud. CFO Amy Hood said the company’s Azure cloud platform had experienced higher than expected AI consumption, which contributed to revenue growth in Azure. The company…
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If only fast IT operations (ITOps) was just about choosing the right tooling. Instead, as so often in IT, ensuring optimum software and services delivery that gets business results involves the solving of “people’ problems too. “There’s a big gap between what we see people do, and what we think they should do,” says Andy…
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Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle Applications product development, spoke to Computer Weekly at Oracle Cloud World 2023 in Las Vegas about what he sees as an inflection point among the firm’s customers – a tipping point from project-based to business-driven conversations with the supplier. He also spoke about how generative AI is a big…
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Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, advocated a slew of traditional “old-school” machine learning and generative AI (GenAI) products as offering ways for customers to do more with less, at the supplier’s 25th anniversary global conference in Las Vegas. The vendor also trumpeted newly NetSuite minted field service management and enterprise performance management (EPM)…
SuiteWorld 23: Oracle NetSuite pushes business efficiency by way of AI Read More »
Insufficient disk space on database servers was the cause of Toyota car production grinding to a halt for 36 hours at 14 plants in Japan late in August. But just how does such a situation arise? What’s pretty likely here is a failure in database capacity planning and to provide for sufficient storage. That’s an…
Toyota car plant outage shows database capacity planning is vital Read More »
Oracle chief technology officer and founder Larry Ellison endorsed a radical vision of what generative artificial intelligence (AI) could achieve in the future during his keynote speech at Oracle CloudWorld 2023 in Las Vegas. He told attendees not to underestimate the technology. “ChatGPT has captured our imagination. Most new technology does not capture the attention…
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Ahead of next week’s Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas, Oracle and Microsoft have announced Oracle Database@Azure. This is said to give direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and deployed in Microsoft Azure datacentres. It also opens up Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI services to Oracle customers. “Our expanded partnership with Oracle…
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It is probably safe to say that Salesforce and Zoom are two of the most high-profile software companies operating today, and outside of an IT context, two of the best known to the public. And it’s certainly safe to say that thanks to their prominence, both are targets for threat actors and cyber criminals who…
Salesforce and Zoom embrace ethical hackers. You should, too Read More »
In 1999, Salesforce created the first true software-as-a-service (SaaS) package. Now there are more than 10,000 cloud-based applications aimed at enterprises and SMEs, covering everything from core business functions, such as finance or enterprise resource planning (ERP), to niche tasks. This proliferation of SaaS technology has helped organisations to modernise, digitise and automate business processes.…
