Recent Posts by Bill Jacobs

More and more, businesses need the ability to scale quickly and easily. One way to gain that agility is through using applications hosted in the cloud. With cloud-based applications, fast-growing businesses don’t need to worry about adding servers to the data center or hiring additional IT staff as demands increase. They can deploy additional capacity as needed, managed by the application hosting provider. The right solution also provides end-to-end data security...

Businesses looking to modernize operations and improve customer experience know that the path to digital transformation lies in the cloud. No wonder, then, that the adoption of cloud native technologies in production has increased by 267% between 2017 and 2018. But most  businesses have realized that they have a need for both private and public clouds. Therefore, they’re exploring multi-cloud strategies that let them respond to fast-changing market needs while still ensuring...

If your organization is like most, many of your critical enterprise workloads are still running on on-premises infrastructure. But the future of the digitized organization lies in a multi-cloud environment with the agility to respond to market shifts rapidly while still providing data sovereignty and compliance. Application portability within a secure and agile infrastructure is the right way to go. The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is an integrated, wire-once,...

Your organization’s databases are fundamental to success, holding your most critical assets and supporting mission-critical applications. They also represent a significant part of your IT spend, so optimizing deployment is key. Oracle Database Appliance is a fully integrated solution purpose-built and optimized for Oracle Database and applications, speeding deployment, reducing risk, and providing capacity on demand to reduce licensing costs. Announced at Oracle OpenWorld...

Today's guest post comes from Laura DuBois, Program Vice President for IDC's Storage practice. Today’s businesses face the challenge of building for the future while supporting the current environment. They need to run the business – and build it – simultaneously. Organizations need to build new applications to do better customer engagement, drive new revenue sources, and develop new products and services. And they need to do this while managing existing workloads that may...

Today's post was written in partnership with my colleague Mary Jane Greenfield, Principal Product Marketing Director, Platform. ‘Scale-out and cloud infrastructure at commodity prices’. ‘SPARC comes to Oracle Cloud’.  ‘Accelerate data analytics and Oracle Database 12c in-memory performance’. ‘ Solaris virtualization is the right virtualization for your application’. ‘The Software in Silicon revolution continues’.  ‘This is just a glimpse of what you’ll hear and learn about...

Today's guest blogger is Paul Villers Barriga from Oracle. On Thursday June 30th, we announced Oracle’s new cloud platform, including a new line of servers for cloud and scale-out applications: Oracle’s SPARC S7-2 and S7-2L servers. These servers are based on the breakthrough SPARC S7 processor and extend the outstanding features and capabilities of the SPARC T7 and M7 systems into scale-out form factors. With the combination of Oracle’s breakthrough Software in Silicon...

Today's guest post is by Josh Rosen, a Senior Principal Product Strategy Manager for Oracle’s x86 servers, focusing on Oracle’s software and cloud offerings. Today Oracle announced the new Oracle Server X6-2 (read the white paper: Oracle Server X6-2 System Architecture) and Oracle Server X6-2L (read the white paper: Oracle Server X6-2L System Architecture), based on the latest processors from the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v4 processor family, also known as the Intel Broadwell-EP...