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EDB Says It Tops Oracle, Other Databases in Benchmarks

EDB Postgres AI, the latest PostgreSQL-based database from EnterpriseDB (EDB), outperformed four other databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL, on a pair of benchmark tests that span SQL and NoSQL wor Read more…

Trump Rescinds Biden’s AI Order, Announces $500B Investment in AI Infrastructure

President Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders during his first day in office, including one that rescinded his predecessor’s order addressing AI risk. The new president indicated he viewed the old order as Read more…

Oracle Touts Performance Boost with Exadata X11M

Oracle today unveiled the Exadata X11M, the latest in its line of high-performance appliances for AI, analytics, and OLTP workloads. The company says the X11M will give customers substantial speedups across the board at Read more…

Oracle Bolsters Big Data, Analytics, and AI at CloudWorld

Oracle unleashed a torrent of new analytic and AI capabilities this week at its Oracle CloudWorld conference in Las Vegas. The fun kicked off yesterday with an expansion of capabilities in AWS and Google Cloud, updates t Read more…

The Spark-to-Ray Migration That Will Save Amazon $100M+ Per Year

When Ray first emerged from the UC Berkeley RISELab back in 2017, it was positioned as a possible replacement for Apache Spark. But as Anyscale, the commercial outfit behind Ray, scaled up its own operations, the “Ray Read more…

Crunchy Data Goes All-In With Postgres

The emergence of Postgres as a defacto standard for new development projects has surprised many IT observers. But one group that’s not surprised are the folks at Crunchy Data, a South Carolina company that’s been bui Read more…

Oracle Brings Autonomous Database To Microsoft Azure

Strengthening its partnership with Microsoft Corporation, Oracle has announced the general availability of its Autonomous Database on Microsoft Azure. Oracle will operate and manage the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud S Read more…

The IBM-Meta AI Alliance Promotes Safe and Open AI Progress

IBM and Meta have co-launched a massive industry-academic-government alliance to shepherd AI development. The new group has united under the AI Alliance banner to promote responsible innovation in AI. Historically, techn Read more…

Aerospike Unifies Storage Format, Delivers DBaaS

Aerospike today announced that version 7.0 of its NoSQL database will introduce a unified storage format for data stored on SSDs drives and in memory, setting the stage for multi-record transaction support in the next re Read more…

Oracle Announces GA of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse

Oracle recently announced the general availability of MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, a fully managed database service. The company previously debuted the service at its CloudWorld event last October. This lakehouse is the Read more…

This Just In

Oracle Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape

Feb 6, 2025 |

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 6, 2025 — Oracle has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51813824, January 2025). Read more…

Oracle and Google Cloud Expand Availability, Enhance Oracle Database@Google Cloud

Jan 31, 2025 |
AUSTIN, Texas and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan 31, 2025 — Oracle and Google Cloud today announced plans to add eight new regions, as well as powerful new capabilities for Oracle Database@Google Cloud that will help customers fortify database instances, optimize costs, and achieve greater flexibility and resiliency.
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Oracle Unveils Exadata X11M with Performance Gains Across AI, Analytics, and OLTP

Jan 8, 2025 |

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 8, 2025 — Oracle today introduced Oracle Exadata X11M, the latest generation of the Oracle Exadata platform. Starting at the same price as the previous generation, Exadata X11M delivers significant performance improvements across AI, analytics, and online transaction processing (OLTP). Read more…

Oracle Unveils Limited Preview for Cloud Database Integration on AWS

Dec 2, 2024 |

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 2, 2024 — Oracle today announced the limited preview of Oracle Database@AWS. Customers will now be able to run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Amazon Web Services (AWS), starting with the AWS US East Region. Read more…

Oracle and Yurts Collaborate to Bring Secure GenAI Solutions to Defense and Intelligence Sectors

Oct 25, 2024 |

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25, 2024 — Yurts, the secure and private Generative AI (GenAI) integration platform that empowers people to do their best work, announced a collaboration with Oracle, the cloud technology company that provides organizations around the world with computing infrastructure and software to help them innovate, unlock efficiencies and becomes more effective to bring Yurt’s advanced, secure generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) solutions to the defense and intelligence sectors. Read more…

AMD Instinct MI300X Accelerators Available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Demanding AI Applications

Sep 26, 2024 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 26, 2024 — AMD today announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has chosen AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators with ROCm open software to power its newest OCI Compute Supercluster instance called BM.GPU.MI300X.8. Read more…

Volumez Now Available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace

Sep 23, 2024 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 23, 2024 — Volumez, a modern cloud data infrastructure company and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, has announced that its Volumez ISV Solution is available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace and can be deployed on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Read more…

NVIDIA and Oracle to Accelerate AI and Data Processing for Enterprises

Sep 13, 2024 |

Sept. 11, 2024 — Enterprises are looking for increasingly powerful compute to support their AI workloads and accelerate data processing. The efficiency gained can translate to better returns for their investments in AI training and fine-tuning, and improved user experiences for AI inference. Read more…

Oracle Unveils Cloud Computing Cluster with Up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

Sep 11, 2024 |

LAS VEGAS, Sept. 11, 2024 — Oracle today announced new cloud computing clusters accelerated by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is now taking orders for the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud—available with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Read more…

Deloitte Partners with NVIDIA and Oracle to Accelerate GenAI Solutions with AI Factory

Sep 11, 2024 |

NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2024 — Deloitte has announced the launch of AI Factory as a Service, a scalable, one-stop shop suite of Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities built on the NVIDIA AI platform, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise software, NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints, accelerated computing and leveraging Oracle‘s enterprise AI technology. Read more…

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