Alan Zeichick
Forbes
Phoenix, AZ, United States
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Oracle BrandVoice: How AI Can Take The Drudgery Out Of Tuning Machine-Learning Models
Data scientists can spend weeks tuning machine learning for specific needs. Artificial intelligence can do the job many times faster, Oracle Labs finds. → Read More
Chief Information Security Officer Priorities For 2020
Chief information security officers have a lot to worry about in 2020, but many of the answers involve employee education, managing privacy laws, securing the cloud, and implementing intelligent automation solutions. → Read More
Canada Embraces Digital Payments, With Some Behind-The-Scenes Help
Interac, a domestic debit payment network in Canada, is seeing rapid growth in digital payments. Next step: Moving those transactions into the cloud. → Read More
4 Techniques To Unlock Creativity, Including Saying ‘Yes’
A former Disney veteran shows how we can use imagination to disrupt markets and reinvent products. → Read More
CARE’s Work In Bihar Shows Progress Is Possible Against The Toughest Problems
CARE delivers emergency and longer-term humanitarian aid to millions of people around the globe. Its cloud-backed IT strategy helps that mission by letting CARE assure donors of how their support is used. → Read More
The Cloud Can Provide Both High Security And Maximum Flexibility
Oracle, with its Gen 2 Cloud Infrastructure, is expanding the regions it operates in and the configurations it offers. → Read More
Go Big, Really Big, As High-Performance Cloud Computing Scales To Millions Of Jobs
Not long ago, it was cheaper to run a heavily utilized high-performance cluster on premises. No more. → Read More
The Cloud Stops Email Hackers Before Your Employees Start Clicking
As attackers keep honing their phishing tactics to plant malware, employers are fighting back with cloud-based email protection as a service. → Read More
A New Oracle And Microsoft Agreement Simplifies Cross-Cloud Computing
Oracle and Microsoft have a partnership agreement to connect Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure Windows Server to make it easier for companies to run cross-cloud workloads with very low latency. → Read More
Staffing Company Delivers Personnel At Speed And Scale By Reworking Its Back Office
TrueBlue, a staffing, hiring, and recruiting company, has moved from 20 legacy applications running on-premisis in data centers to Oracle Applications Cloud using Software as a Service for ERP, HCM, and EPM, with help from human resources, IT, and finance. → Read More
You Can’t Improve Cybersecurity By Throwing People At The Problem
A new survey study on the uses of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity delves into risks as well as solutions, including autonomous databases and the cloud. → Read More
Telcos Make The Leap To The Cloud For Critical Apps
Telecommunications companies don’t need huge data centers to support the latest technologies like the Internet of things and 5G wireless. Today, disruptive companies like PortaOne can offer all those capabilities to telcos large and small using the cloud. → Read More
Construction Software Firm Sees Growth From Cloud Infrastructure Move
CMiC Global, a 45-year-old software company focusing on the construction business, is ready to expand thanks to its multitenant software-as-a-service platform hosted on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. → Read More
Chief Information Security Officer Priorities For 2019
The Chief Information Security Officer supports the business by reducing risk. This isn’t easy when faced with the erosion of traditional perimeters, new threats, and internal hazards from employees,. → Read More
Fast Food’s New Recipe: Custom Orders, Uber Delivery, And The Right Data
The logistics and inventory challenges from the customization trend in fast food are made easier with the cloud. → Read More
A Java Developer Walks Into A Ruby Conference: Charles Nutter’s Open Source Journey
For his successful coleadership of JRuby during more than a decade, Charles Nutter received a Groundbreaker Award at Oracle Code One. → Read More
Hadoop Pioneer Says Developers Should Build Open Source Into Their Career Plans
Doug Cutting, recently honored with a Groundbreaker Award at Oracle Code One in San Francisco, shared his thoughts about collaborating on open source software and creating a fulfilling career in software. → Read More
Want A Bigger Bang From AI? Embed It Into Your Apps
Here's a framework to think about your AI strategy, plus examples of how AI embedded in your apps can help supply chain, customer service, HR, and more. → Read More
This Online Game Features Out-Of-Tune Pop Songs. The End Game Is About Much More
Startup relies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to keep its online music trivia game in tune. → Read More
What Makes Oracle Autonomous Database Truly ‘Autonomous’
Here are examples of how Oracle Autonomous Database frees database administrators from mundane tasks and lets them focus on higher-value work. → Read More