Actifio, the copy data virtualization company and a Platinum-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that its copy data virtualization platform is now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.
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“We are in the middle of a generational shift in computing that is no less important than our shift to personal computing”, said he.
Oracle India is the only organisation outside its California headquarters to represent all divisions including sales, marketing, consulting and education operations for the domestic market, global product management, global consulting, support to global customers and global financial accounting analysis.
He pointed to recent breaches including one at the US government that exposed more than 20 million personnel records, and talked up new Oracle products that he said will better protect companies’ data. We no longer pay any attention to traditional competitors SAP SE and worldwide Business Machines Corp. Ellison adds, “It is quite a shock”. They haven’t been in any kind of hurry to move to the cloud. These big companies also recognize that the growing number of Millennials in the workforce prefer to work in a different way, and that is better served by cloud implementations.
The EIU survey shows that companies are well aware of the responsibilities of holding digital identities and are taking them seriously. In the report, Gartner said Oracle had yet to enter the market with a full strategic investment.
“We are not losing a war, but we are losing a lot of battles”, he added, “we have to rethink how we deliver technology, especially as vast amounts of data are delivered to the cloud…we have to make sure it is secure”. Nearly all our competitions are new. “Microsoft and Oracle are the only two companies we know of that have large suites of applications”.
“We started building all our application on the cloud and for this, we had to rewrite our entire database”.
Oracle wants to compete primarily with Amazon(AWS) on the IaaS space, with Google occasionally.
For all that Ellison claimed Oracle never thinks about IBM anymore, the company set aside a good chunk of time to talk about the three-letter company.
So how does the overall competitive landscape looks like for Oracle? It brings together data on consumers’ in-store purchasing information, loyalty information and credit card program data that Oracle gained access to in its Datalogix acquisition, which it purchased for $1.2 billion in 2014.
“Cloud is our top priority and we are aligning our resources to that strategic initiative”, says Shawn Price, senior vice;president: cloud at Oracle.
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“Skanska implemented Oracle as a common BI solution for all users around the globe, for easy mobile access, self-service tools, and improved decision-making – and it reduced costs”, said Peter Bjork, vice president of information systems strategies, Skanska AB.
