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Jumpstart Your Cloud Skills with Free Oracle Cloud Learning Resources
Oracle is now offering Intro, Advanced and Expert level cloud training content, online and free to anybody interested in learning more about cloud in general and Oracle's Generation 2 Enterprise cloud in particular.
Oracle is now offering Intro, Advanced and Expert level cloud training content, online and free to anybody interested in learning more about cloud in general and Oracle's Generation 2 Enterprise cloud...
Deploying a Cross-Cloud, GPU-Enabled Kubernetes Cluster Running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure
Deploying a cross-cloud, GPU enabled Kubernetes cluster running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure using the interconnect
Deploying a cross-cloud, GPU enabled Kubernetes cluster running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure using the interconnect
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Accenture Testing Proves Low Latency and Ease of Use of Microsoft-Oracle Cloud Interconnection
Accenture has tested the multicloud interconnection between Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure, revealing a low average latency of 1.5 milliseconds, as well as an easy process of using that connection.
Accenture has tested the multicloud interconnection between Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure, revealing a low average latency of 1.5 milliseconds, as well as an easy process of using that connection.
Developer Tools
Using the Multiple-Instance Attach Block Volume Feature to Create a Shared File System on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Using the Multi-Attach Block Volume Feature to Create a Shared File System on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Using the Multi-Attach Block Volume Feature to Create a Shared File System on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Streaming Becomes Kafka Compatible
Today, we are announcing the general availability for compatibility with Apache Kafka - the leading message bus platform for building event-driven applications and real-time big data infrastructure for analytics.
Today, we are announcing the general availability for compatibility with Apache Kafka - the leading message bus platform for building event-driven applications and real-time big data infrastructure...
Oracle Cloud Joins the IO500 Fastest File Systems in the World
Oracle Cloud has been listed on the Virtual Institute for IO's list of the top 20 file system architectures in the world.
Oracle Cloud has been listed on the Virtual Institute for IO's list of the top 20 file system architectures in the world.
Solutions
Publishing GPU Instance Metrics to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring
This posts walks through the steps of publishing GPU temperature, GPU utilization, and GPU memory utilization from GPU instances to OCI Monitoring service.
This posts walks through the steps of publishing GPU temperature, GPU utilization, and GPU memory utilization from GPU instances to OCI Monitoring service.
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The Fastest File Servers in the Public Cloud
Announcing a new HPC file server solution, with the fastest file servers in the cloud using IBM Spectrum Scale on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Announcing a new HPC file server solution, with the fastest file servers in the cloud using IBM Spectrum Scale on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Further Advances the Viability of HPC in the Cloud
A look at all the advances in cloud based HPC that Oracle is working on related to the Supercomputing 2019 conference.
A look at all the advances in cloud based HPC that Oracle is working on related to the Supercomputing 2019 conference.
Announcing Oracle API Gateway, Oracle Logging, and Kafka Compatibility for Oracle Streaming
Oracle Cloud Native Services let you develop, deploy, and manage next-generation applications that are containerized, serverless, infrastructure expressed as code, and event driven. When combined with observability and messaging capabilities, they enable you to run highly scalable and available modern applications at global enterprise levels.
Oracle Cloud Native Services let you develop, deploy, and manage next-generation applications that are containerized, serverless, infrastructure expressed as code, and event driven. When combined with...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Connecting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Amazon VPC with Megaport Cloud Router
As more companies come to the cloud, what type of deployment strategy are they deciding is best for them? For most, it's multicloud. Organizations choose to implement a multi-cloud strategy for many reasons: to enable flexible distribution of workloads, increase security, improve reliability, enable versatile DevOps environments, and, of course, reduce costs. This post describes how to implement multi-cloud connectivity between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AWS.
As more companies come to the cloud, what type of deployment strategy are they deciding is best for them? For most, it's multicloud. Organizations choose to implement a multi-cloud strategy for many...
72 Hours to Cloud: How CARE Modernized Mission-Critical Applications
A look at how non-profit Care.org modernized their critical application portfolio quickly and easily on Oracle Cloud.
A look at how non-profit Care.org modernized their critical application portfolio quickly and easily on Oracle Cloud.
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Advantages of Using Aviatrix to Extend Native Cloud Networking Constructs
Aviatrix solutions, now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace, embraces native Oracle Cloud constructs and helps enterprises extend with advanced networking and security services simply and securely.
Aviatrix solutions, now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace, embraces native Oracle Cloud constructs and helps enterprises extend with advanced networking and security services simply and securely.
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Elastic Performance with the Next Generation Block Storage on Oracle Cloud
Elastic Performance with the Next Generation Block Storage on Oracle Cloud You can now dynamically change the performance characteristics of all your block storage and boot volumes on-demand as you need, while they are online without any downtime for your applications and environments on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This elastic performance configuration capability for your volumes is the first in a serious of updates coming up soon as we innovate for the next generation of our block storage offering.
Elastic Performance with the Next Generation Block Storage on Oracle Cloud You can now dynamically change the performance characteristics of all your block storage and boot volumes on-demand as you...
Developer Tools
Two Tools to Bring Your Existing Infrastructure Under Terraform
Announcing two new tools to help you bring your existing infrastructure to Terraform and Oracle Resource Manager, our Terraform-as-a-Service solution.
Announcing two new tools to help you bring your existing infrastructure to Terraform and Oracle Resource Manager, our Terraform-as-a-Service solution.
Introducing New Certifications: Architect Professional and Operations Associate
Announcing two new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) certifications: Architect Professional and Operations Associate
Announcing two new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) certifications: Architect Professional and Operations Associate
Product News
New Console Features to Manage Your Cloud Account
Introducing additional Console enhancements to further improve how you manage Cloud Regions and Group access to Cloud Platform services.
Introducing additional Console enhancements to further improve how you manage Cloud Regions and Group access to Cloud Platform services.
Product News
Notifications Service Launches Integration with HTTPS Endpoints
We are excited to announce a much requested connector to any application that exposes an HTTPS endpoint. Customers can now publish messages via WebHook or Web APIs by simply providing a callback URL during the subscription creation. Webhooks provide a convenient way to take action on a third-party application when an event or alarm happens on your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tenancy.
We are excited to announce a much requested connector to any application that exposes an HTTPS endpoint. Customers can now publish messages via WebHook or Web APIs by simply providing a callback URL...
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Audit Service Enhancements Are Now Available
We are pleased to announce the general availability release of enhancements to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Audit Service.
We are pleased to announce the general availability release of enhancements to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Audit Service.
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A10 Networks Enables Application Workloads in Oracle Cloud
The A10 vThunder® solution is a purpose-built ADC and is now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. It enables enterprises to carry their secure application delivery policies and practices to Oracle Cloud.
The A10 vThunder® solution is a purpose-built ADC and is now available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. It enables enterprises to carry their secure application delivery policies and practices to...
Customer Stories
Adlib Software and Oracle Cloud Supercharge Customer Onboarding
Adlib Software helps a Fortune 100 insurance company simplify its customer-onboarding process with Oracle Cloud.
Adlib Software helps a Fortune 100 insurance company simplify its customer-onboarding process with Oracle Cloud.
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Kinetica Active Analytics on Oracle Cloud Tackles Extreme Data Challenges
As the forces of 5G, AI, and IoT drive digital transformation around the world, they’re also generating massive amounts of complex, fast moving data. Organizations are looking for new solutions to tackle this extreme data challenge. That’s where the Kinetica Active Analytics Platform running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can help.
As the forces of 5G, AI, and IoT drive digital transformation around the world, they’re also generating massive amounts of complex, fast moving data. Organizations are looking for new solutions to...
Announcing a Certified VMware Solution on Oracle Cloud
Oracle announces a brand new cloud solution for VMware based on VMware Cloud Foundation that gives customers full control of their cloud environment, easy migration and consistent controls and configurations between cloud and on-premsies VMware deppoyments.
Oracle announces a brand new cloud solution for VMware based on VMware Cloud Foundation that gives customers full control of their cloud environment, easy migration and consistent controls...
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Introducing Simple, Unified Billing for Partner Solutions on Oracle Cloud Marketplace
By introducing a simplified and unified billing experience on Oracle Cloud Marketplace, customers can now pay for and use ISV partner products of their choice that are certified to work on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Customers have the flexibility to pay for these solutions by the hour with no long-term commitments by using Pay-As-You-Go or Universal Monthly (UCM) Flex credits. In the end, you receive just a single, consolidated bill.
By introducing a simplified and unified billing experience on Oracle Cloud Marketplace, customers can now pay for and use ISV partner products of their choice that are certified to work on Oracle...
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Launch Security and Networking Solutions from Leading ISV Partners on the Marketplace
The Oracle Cloud Marketplace continues to offer images and fully integrated solution stacks for leading security and networking products. We are excited to team up with both new and long-time ISV partners to unveil security and networking offerings that are not only simple to deploy at a click, but also easy to consume with a single, unified bill for partner and Oracle Cloud solutions.
The Oracle Cloud Marketplace continues to offer images and fully integrated solution stacks for leading security and networking products. We are excited to team up with both new and long-time ISV...
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Migrate and Augment Enterprise Apps with Oracle Cloud Marketplace Partners
With newly launched Oracle Cloud Marketplace paid listings, you can easily click-to-launch third-party solutions to help you migrate and augment enterprise applications in the Oracle Cloud. In the end, you'll receive one unified bill for both Oracle and ISV partner solutions.
With newly launched Oracle Cloud Marketplace paid listings, you can easily click-to-launch third-party solutions to help you migrate and augment enterprise applications in the Oracle Cloud. In...
Partners
Oracle Cloud Marketplace Partners Offer Solutions to Accelerate Big Data and Analytics
This OpenWorld 2019, we are pleased to highlight some new as well as some existing ISV partners that are bringing ground-breaking solutions to the Oracle Cloud Marketplace to help support your critical data management and analytics use cases.
This OpenWorld 2019, we are pleased to highlight some new as well as some existing ISV partners that are bringing ground-breaking solutions to the Oracle Cloud Marketplace to help support...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
NeuVector Container Security Platform Available on Oracle Cloud Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE)
The NeuVector Container Security Platform is now available on Oracle Cloud Container Kubernetes Service (OKE).
The NeuVector Container Security Platform is now available on Oracle Cloud Container Kubernetes Service (OKE).
Events
Oracle Cloud Year in Review and What You’ll See at Oracle OpenWorld 2019
A look back at what Oracle Cloud delivered this year and a preview of what you'll see at OpenWorld 2019 this year
A look back at what Oracle Cloud delivered this year and a preview of what you'll see at OpenWorld 2019 this year
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Federation with Microsoft Azure Active Directory
This short video shows how to setup OCI federation with Azure Active Directory in about 10 minutes. It shows single sign-on to OCI cloud console.
This short video shows how to setup OCI federation with Azure Active Directory in about 10 minutes. It shows single sign-on to OCI cloud console.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
GraalVM Powers Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
This blog post is an experience report of running GraalVM in a production service part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
This blog post is an experience report of running GraalVM in a production service part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Product News
Console Experience Enhancements Unite IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
Announcing the next suite of usability enhancements making it easier for you to manage all your Oracle Cloud services, whether they be IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS – from a single login.
Announcing the next suite of usability enhancements making it easier for you to manage all your Oracle Cloud services, whether they be IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS – from a single login.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Building Multicloud Applications On Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Part 2
This is a continuation of an earlier blog where we walked through a process to utilize Microsoft Azure and OCI cross-cloud networking for serverless ADB and a Microsoft Azure application. In this blog, we show you how to do that with ATP-D.
This is a continuation of an earlier blog where we walked through a process to utilize Microsoft Azure and OCI cross-cloud networking for serverless ADB and a Microsoft Azure application. In this...
Oracle and Microsoft Expand Their Multicloud Alliance to the London Region
The multi-cloud integration between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure that initially connected regions in the Eastern US is now generally available in London as well.
The multi-cloud integration between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Microsoft Azure that initially connected regions in the Eastern US is now generally available in London as well.
Product News
Use Quotas for Better Control and More Effective Cost Management in the Cloud
Announcing the release of two Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cost management and governance features that will give administrators more control over resource allocation and better tools to understand resource availability.
Announcing the release of two Oracle Cloud Infrastructure cost management and governance features that will give administrators more control over resource allocation and better tools to understand...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Announcing the Object Storage Plugin for Splunk
The Splunk Add-on for OCI Object Storage allows a Splunk Enterprise administrator to gather log data from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Buckets.
The Splunk Add-on for OCI Object Storage allows a Splunk Enterprise administrator to gather log data from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Buckets.
Integrating OCI Service Broker with Autonomous Transaction Processing in the Real World
This article describes a new feature in OCI Service Boker that enables you to better integrate with ATP and ADW instances.
This article describes a new feature in OCI Service Boker that enables you to better integrate with ATP and ADW instances.
Developer Tools
Getting Started with Oracle Functions and Object Storage
This introductory blog post shows how you can build and deploy a serverless Java function in Oracle Functions to list the objects of a bucket in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage in a secure manner with fine grained access to the bucket.
This introductory blog post shows how you can build and deploy a serverless Java function in Oracle Functions to list the objects of a bucket in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage in a...
Product News
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events Service Now Generally Available
We're excited to announce the general availability of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events service, which lets you subscribe to changes in your cloud resources and respond to them using Oracle Functions, Notifications, and Streaming.
We're excited to announce the general availability of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Events service, which lets you subscribe to changes in your cloud resources and respond to them using...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Functions Now Generally Available
Oracle Functions, Oracle’s functions as a service platform, makes it easy to build cloud native applications by letting developers focus on writing code and not on managing infrastructure. With Oracle Functions you simply write, deploy, and call your function. There are no servers to provision, monitor, or upgrade—it’s serverless!
Oracle Functions, Oracle’s functions as a service platform, makes it easy to build cloud native applications by letting developers focus on writing code and not on managing infrastructure. With Oracle...
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Functions and Events: Managed Services for Conquering Complexity
The general availability (GA) of Oracle Functions and Events on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure begins a new generation of simplification and openness for cloud users and developers.
The general availability (GA) of Oracle Functions and Events on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure begins a new generation of simplification and openness for cloud users and developers.
Product News
Best Practices for Using Tags to Manage Costs, Operations, and Governance
Best practices on how to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Tagging and some of its more unique features to optimize cost management, simplify operations and maintain governance. In this blog post, I'll discuss the different purposes of tags versus compartments, and the best way to leverage tags across your enterprise to maximize your ability to track costs and organize your cloud resources.
Best practices on how to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Tagging and some of its more unique features to optimize cost management, simplify operations and maintain governance. In this blog post, I'll...
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Securing Multiple-Tier Applications by Using Network Security Groups
To enhance our cloud security offering we recently introduced Network Security Groups feature which provides users with a comprehensive toolset to create granular security rules to controls traffic at resource within the virtual cloud network
To enhance our cloud security offering we recently introduced Network Security Groups feature which provides users with a comprehensive toolset to create granular security rules to controls traffic at...
Events
Join Us at Identiverse for Identities for Everything
Photo courtesy of Dan Vogel If you're in the Washington, D.C. area on Thursday, June 27, and attending Identiverse, swing by. Dan Vogel and Norka Lucena from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team are presenting Identities for Everything at 2:35 in the Ballroom at the Washington Hilton. As a growing cloud service provider, we faced a problem when building our robust multitenancy identity system. The implementation for authorizing advanced services like compute and DBaaS instances was safe but could be complicated for customers to easily reason about. We solved this problem by creating a new type of principal actor, called resource principals, that abstracts both physical and logical resources, and self-identifies when communicating with infrastructure services. Resource principals are a novel way to distribute trust at scale. We have found four patterns of resource principals that can be mixed to define all of our cloud resources to date: Infrastructure—using physical identifiers (for example, compute instances) Ephemeral—using injected identifiers (for example, Kubernetes ReplicaSets) Stacked—projecting one principal into another (for example, a managed cache) Asserted—collective resources reduced into an individual (for example, object storage) By assigning Identities to everything in our infrastructure, we reduce the scope and number of distributed credentials, better capture customer intention of infrastructure interaction, and produce more precise and actionable audit logs. Dan and Norka will show how it works by building a simple cloud app and applying these patterns to result in a clear authentication and authorization story. We hope that by sharing these patterns we can improve identity solutions of other cloud products by embracing the idea of safe, secure identities for everything. If you can't attend our session but still want to learn more about how to use Resource Principals with Oracle Cloud, check out this white paper on best practices for IAM on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Photo courtesy of Dan Vogel If you're in the Washington, D.C. area on Thursday, June 27, and attending Identiverse, swing by. Dan Vogel and Norka Lucena from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team...
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Click-to-Launch Solution Stacks with Marketplace to the Oracle Cloud
Launch announcement for Marketplace Stacks on Oracle Cloud, a framework that allows third party software vendors to build out optimal templatized architectures for the deployment of available software on Oracle Cloud.
Launch announcement for Marketplace Stacks on Oracle Cloud, a framework that allows third party software vendors to build out optimal templatized architectures for the deployment of available software...
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Machine Learning with H2O.ai and Oracle ERP
Packaged line-of-business (LOB) applications are an area where Oracle is a market leader. These applications contain an enormous amount of data that has the potential to give amazing insight into core business functions, enabling gains in areas such as: Operational efficiency Cross sell / up sell Customer experience Oracle is investing heavily in moving these LOB applications to our cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In parallel, we're investing in the ecosystem, partnering with key ISVs to enable their workloads on our cloud, which allows our customers to leverage the latest innovations in conjunction with the LOB applications that they depend on. H2O Driverless AI H2O.ai is a leader in the AI/ML space. Their platform, Driverless AI (DAI), automates much of the machine learning lifecycle, from data ingestion to data engineering and modeling, on to deployment. It enables both data scientists and relatively naive users to generate sophisticated ML models that can have an enormous impact on their business. Late last year, we began integration work with H2O.ai. Initial efforts focused on creating Terraform templates to automate the deployment of Driverless AI on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Building on that, H2O.ai was the first of our Quick Start templates to go live. Driverless AI can be deployed today on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure by using Terraform modules that our team and the H2O.ai team developed jointly. Those modules are available on the Quick Start on GitHub. We’re currently exploring ways to use this kind of data in Oracle enterprise applications to build tailored ML models. An example architecture might look like this: On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Driverless AI can be deployed on NVIDIA GPU machines. This accelerates the building of models, further reducing the end-to-end lifecycle for machine learning. Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning The Oracle Retail Advanced Inventory Planning (AIP) module in Oracle ERP is one potential source of interesting data for ML with H2O.ai. An external merchandising system, forecasting system, and replenishment optimization system are integrated with AIP to provide the inventory/foundation data and the forecasting data to AIP to effectively plan the inventory flow across the retailer's supply chain. Because AIP can integrate with any forecasting system, Driverless AI could be used to build a model that accounts for both high frequency (for example, weekend) and lower frequency (for example, holiday) seasonalities. Driverless AI ships with a time-series recipe based on causal splits (moving windows), lag features, interactions thereof, and the automatic detection of time grouping columns (such as Store and Dept for a dataset with weekly sales for each store and department). Oracle Retail Merchandising System The Oracle Retail Merchandising System (RMS) module in Oracle ERP is another fascinating touchpoint. This module includes the following information: Expenses: The direct and indirect costs incurred in moving a purchased item from the supplier's warehouse/factory to the purchase order receiving location. Inventory Transfers: An organized framework for monitoring the movement of stock. Return to Vendor (RTV): Transactions that are used to send merchandise back to a vendor. Inventory Adjustments: Increase or decrease inventory to account for events that occur outside the normal course of business (for example, receipts, sales, and stock counts). Purchase Order Receipts (Shipments): Record the increment to on-hand when goods are received from a supplier. Stock Counts: Inventory is counted in the store and compared against the system inventory level for discrepancies. RMS contains a rich dataset that could be used to build models in Driverless AI for anomaly detection around RTV, inventory adjustment, and other events. Oracle Retail Price Management The Oracle Retail Price Management module in Oracle ERP includes the following information: Item ID: ID that is assigned when the price event is created at the transaction item level. Cost Change Date: The effective date of the past or future cost change. Retail Change Date: The effective date of the past or future retail change. Cost: The cost on the effective date of the cost or retail change. Retail: The regular selling retail on the effective date of the cost or retail change. Markup %: The markup percent on the effective date of the cost or retail change. The markup percent is calculated using the calculation method specified by your system options. With Driverless AI, we could use past cost changes to train a regression model. That model could suggest future pricing, automatically incorporating both seasonality and product lifecycle. Also, by combining Retail Price Management data with marketing, clickstream, or other end-customer data, a regression model could be built to predict the benefit of pricing changes while accounting for other variables that affect sales. Oracle Retail Trade Management The Oracle Retail Trade Management module in Oracle ERP includes the following information: Landed Cost: The total cost of an item received from a vendor inclusive of the supplier cost and all costs associated with moving the item from the supplier's warehouse or factory to the purchase order receiving location. Expenses: The direct and indirect costs incurred in moving a purchased item from the supplier's warehouse/factory to the purchase order receiving location. Country Level Expenses: The costs of bringing merchandise from the origin country, through the lading port, to the import country's discharge port. Zone Level Expenses: The costs of bringing merchandise from the import country's discharge port to the purchase order receiving location. Assessments: The cost components that represent the total tax, fee, and duty charges for an item. Transportation: The facility to track information from trading partners as merchandise is transported from the manufacturer through customs clearance in the importing country. Actual Landed Costs: The actual landed cost incurred when buying an import item. With Retail Trade Management data tracking costs and delays in items being received at their final stocking location, Driverless AI could be used to build a risk model to estimate the impact of changing exact import/transportation routes. Oracle Retail Invoice Matching The Oracle Retail Invoice Matching module in Oracle ERP includes the following information: Invoice Matching Results for Shipments: Shipment records are updated with the invoice matching, which attempts to match all invoices in ready-to-match, unresolved, or multi-unresolved status. Receiver Cost Adjustments: Updates the purchase order, shipment, and potentially the item cost in RMS, depending on the reason code action used. Receiver Unit Adjustments: Invoice matching discrepancies are resolved through a receiver unit adjustment. By joining the information in Retail Invoice Matching with data in other modules, we can build a risk model in Driverless AI for suppliers to predict the probability of invoicing issues for future orders. Next Steps This post gives a high-level view of how an open Oracle ecosystem enables our customers to leverage the latest technologies from our partner ecosystem with the LOB applications that they've relied on for decades to run their business. We're actively working with several customers to prove this out in their environments. In addition, my team is working to create a more detailed demo of the integration described here. We look forward to presenting that in more detail, both on this blog and at several upcoming meetups that Oracle and H2O.ai are jointly organizing. If you have questions, please reach out to Ben.Lackey@Oracle.com or Peter.Solimo@H2O.ai. We'd love to work with you and see what ML can do with your data!
Packaged line-of-business (LOB) applications are an area where Oracle is a market leader. These applications contain an enormous amount of data that has the potential to give amazing insight into...
HPC Investments Continue into ISC 2019
Today, 95 percent of all traditional high-performance computing (HPC) is still done in traditional on-premises deployments. The sporadic demand cycles and rapid evolution of specialized HPC technologies make flexible cloud deployment a great fit for enterprise usage. But other cloud providers simply haven’t been able to penetrate this market for a range of reasons, from performance to cost to a lack of key features, such as remote direct memory access (RDMA) capability. Over the last 12 months, we have invested significantly, in both technology and partnerships, to make Oracle Cloud Infrastructure the best place to run your Big Compute and HPC workloads. At OpenWorld 2018, Larry announced clustered networking, which lets customers run their Message-Passing Interface (MPI) workloads with performance comparable to, and in some cases better than, on-premises HPC clusters. This was the first, and is still the only, bare metal HPC offering with 100G RDMA in a public cloud.* It's in limited availability today, and we expect it to be generally available later in the year. Even further out, we’re working on a truly flexible and scalable architecture in which you can have bare metal GPUs, HPC instances, and even Exadata on a clustered network. This opens up use cases such as running a distributed training job on a cluster of GPUs that pull data from an Exadata, and then deploying the model on a set of compute nodes, all over the clustered network. We pushed the boundaries on this new offering with the ability to scale to up to 20,000 cores for a single job. This is far beyond what any other cloud can offer today for MPI workloads while maintaining efficiency and performance. To see the benchmarks that compare us and other providers, see the blog post that we published this week. Here’s a peek: We also partnered with Altair last year at OpenWorld to launch their Hyperworks CFD unlimited running our bare metal NVIDIA GPU offerings. We recently started working with them on their crash application, called Altair Radioss, and how clustered networking can help reduce the time and cost for these crash simulation jobs. For details, including benchmarks, read the blog post. This week we’re in Frankfurt at ISC 2019, along with our partners, showcasing some of these capabilities. You can talk to our engineering teams and try out some of the technologies at our booth, located at H-730. Some other things you’ll want to catch during the week: Vendor Showdown on Monday, June17, at Panorama 2, starting at 1:15 p.m. Exhibitor Forum Session on Tuesday, June 18, at Booth N-210, starting at 11:20 a.m. Blog: Accelerating DEM Simulations with Rocky on Oracle Cloud and NVIDIA Blog: Making Cars Safer with Oracle Cloud and Altair Radioss Blog: Large Clusters, Lowest Latency: Clustered Networking on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Hands-on demos and labs at our booth H-730 Looking forward to seeing you there! Karan * Based on comparison to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform as of June 3, 2019.
Today, 95 percent of all traditional high-performance computing (HPC) is still done in traditional on-premises deployments. The sporadic demand cycles and rapid evolution of specialized...
Accelerating DEM Simulations with Rocky on Oracle Cloud and NVIDIA
It’s a sunny afternoon, you’re mowing your lawn, and the grass buildup in your mower disrupts your smooth progress. This disruption could have been avoided if the design process for your mower involved airflow modeling with particles. Similarly, you’d hope that the discrete element method (DEM) was used to simulate the flow of beans through the coffee machines that you trust to brew your coffee. DEM simulation packages like Rocky DEM from ESSS include particles and can be coupled with computational fluid dynamics or the finite element method to improve results. However, they add a layer of complexity that results in increased simulation time. To speed up the simulation, Rocky DEM provides the option to parallelize to a high number of CPUs or gain even more speed by unleashing multiple NVIDIA GPUs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. No special setup or driver is needed to run Rocky on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Import your model, choose the number of CPUs or NVIDIA GPUs, and start working. Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure removes the wait time for resources in your on-premises cluster. It also avoids having people battle for high-end GPUs at peak times and then having those GPUs sit idle for the rest of the week. “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Rocky DEM have collaborated to provide a scalable experience to customers with performance similar to on-premises clusters. The bare metal NVIDIA GPU servers, without hypervisor overhead, further help to tackle very large problems in a reasonable amount of time,” said Marcus Reis, Vice President of ESSS. Depending on the simulation, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides different machine shapes to stay cost-effective without compromising on compute power. The following table shows the machine shapes suited for Rocky. Explore all the different storage options, remote direct memory access (RDMA) capabilities, and the composition of NVIDIA GPUs on our Compute service page. Shape CPU GPU VM.Standard2.4 4 - BM.Standard2.52 52 - BM.HPC2.36 36 - VM.GPU2.1 12 1 x P100 VM.GPU3.1 6 1 x V100 BM.GPU2.2 28 2 x P100 BM.GPU3.8 52 8 x V100 “NVIDIA and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are collaborating to help customers reduce their computation time from days to hours by providing GPUs for HPC applications. The Tesla P100 and advanced V100 GPUs increase customer productivity while reducing cost,” said Paresh Kharya, Director of Product Marketing, Accelerated Compute, NVIDIA. The following chart shows that NVIDIA GPUs offer up to 6X better price-performance than CPU-based instances for this simulation. It also shows faster results at a similar price when switching from P100 to V100 GPUs or increasing the core count of CPUs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides bare metal instances with up to 8 Tesla V100 GPUs, and it’s making a difference. Companies can start thinking about the engineering and the design of their next product rather than worrying about simulation runtimes or compute resource availability. Get started on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and run your Rocky DEM workloads today!
It’s a sunny afternoon, you’re mowing your lawn, and the grass buildup in your mower disrupts your smooth progress. This disruption could have been avoided if the design process for your mower...
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Large Clusters, Lowest Latency: Cluster Networking on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has expanded cluster networking by enabling remote direct memory access (RDMA)-connected clusters of up to 20,000 cores on our BM.HPC2.36 instance type. Our groundbreaking, backend network fabric lets you use Mellanox’s ConnectX-5, 100-Gbps network interface cards with RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) v2 to create clusters with the same low-latency networking and application scalability that you expect on premises. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is leading the cloud high performance computing (HPC) battle in performance and price. Over the last few months, we have set new cloud standards for internode latency, cloud HPC benchmarks, and application performance. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's bare metal infrastructure lets you run on-premises performance in the cloud. In addition to connecting bare metal nodes together through RDMA, cluster networking provides a fabric that will enable future instances and products to communicate at extremely low latencies. Performance Ultra-low node-to-node latency is expected on HPC systems. Partners like Exabyte.io have demonstrated Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's leading edge with those metrics. But when you have applications running on thousands of cores, low node-to-node latency isn’t enough. The ability to scale models down to a very small size is more important. In computational fluid dynamics (CFD), users typically want to know the smallest amount of work they can do on a node before they hit a network bottleneck that limits the scalability of their cluster. This is the network efficiency of an HPC cluster or, in other words, getting the most “bang for your buck”! The following chart shows the performance of Oracle’s cluster networking fabric. We scale above 100% below 10,000 simulation cells per core with popular CFD codes, the same performance that you would see on premises. It’s also important to note that without the penalty of virtualization, bare metal HPC machines can use all the cores on the node without having to reserve any cores for costly overhead. The ability for a simulation model to scale this way highlights two important design features. The first is the stability of the underlying network fabric, which can transfer data fast and consistently. The second important design feature is that there is no additional traffic or overhead on the network to limit throughput or latency. You can see this stability in the following chart, which compares on-premises HPC network efficiency to cloud HPC network efficiency. CFD is not the only type of simulation to benefit from using Oracle’s cluster networking. Crash simulations, like those run on Altair’s RADIOSS or LS-Dyna from LSTC, and financial matching simulations, like those offered by BJSS, also use cluster networking. Price Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the best performance by default. You don’t pay extra for performance of block storage, RDMA capability, or network bandwidth, and the first 10 TB of egress is free. Cluster networking follows that same paradigm—there is no additional charge for it. Availability Today, cluster networking is available in the regions that have our HPC instances: Ashburn, London, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. Cluster networking will continue to spread throughout all of our regions as cluster networking-enabled instances continue to roll out. To deploy your HPC cluster using cluster networking, reach out to your Oracle rep or contact us directly. Also, visit us at the ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt June 16–20. We’re in booth H-730. Hope to see you there.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has expanded cluster networking by enabling remote direct memory access (RDMA)-connected clusters of up to 20,000 cores on our BM.HPC2.36 instance type. Our groundbreaking,...
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Ksplice Provides Zero-Downtime Patching for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Instances
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now offers zero-downtime patching for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS instances.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure now offers zero-downtime patching for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS instances.