Oracle has announced plans to open 12 new data centers across Asia, Europe and the Americas region in a push to expand the geographic reach of the technology firm’s cloud services. The company said Monday it will establish two facilities in the U.S. to serve Defense Department customers and another two in Canada. Other data center locations will […] More

Oracle is reducing its sales to make more money from its fastest growing sector: cloud. While the exact size of the cuts are uncertain, one report says Oracle is preparing to cut up to two-thirds of its current sales force as soon as this summer, and layoffs are expected to start after the end of this […] More

Hasan Rizvi, a more than two-decade veteran of Oracle, has joined private equity firm  Bridge Growth Partners as a senior adviser and he will be based in San Francisco. Bridge Growth Partners said Tuesday Rizvi is currently a member of the board of directors of its portfolio company Solace. He established and led virtual agent technology developer Qlue as CEO […] More

Oracle has secured a six-month, $11.2 million task order to support the development of an integrated technology platform for the U.S. Marine Corps to manage the service branch’s logistics operation. The Defense Department said Monday the company will also provide sustainment and maintenance services for the Global Combat Support System – Marine Corps Logistics Chain Management. GCSS-MC/LCM is […] More

Oracle and AT&T inked an agreement to move thousands of AT&T’s large scale internal databases to Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS,) according to a press release. Thousands of existing AT&T data stored on Oracle databases and associated applications workloads will be moved to Oracle Cloud. “This is an […] More

VMware and Oracle have agreed to streamline management and ensure security of Oracle’s portfolio of mobile business applications. Enterprise organizations with business apps built on the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service offering can leverage VMware’s AirWatch and Workspace ONE mobility management platforms under the partnership, Oracle said Thursday. VMware AirWatch works to help users manage and protect […] More

AT&T has agreed with Oracle to migrate thousands of databases and related applications workloads to the latter’s cloud platforms. Oracle said Thursday the strategic agreement with AT&T covers its portfolio of cloud offerings that include platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service and database-as-a-service. AT&T will also integrate its big data and machine learning capabilities with Oracle’s Field Service […] More

Mark Johnson, director of modern platform for government at Oracle, has said that agencies should consider three factors before moving information technology systems to the cloud and one of them is to adopt end-to-end security platforms. Johnson wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Friday that such security tools should work to protect applications from cyber vulnerabilities […] More

Mythics has received a contract from Virginia’s information technologies agency to deploy a range of Oracle products and services to various public organizations across the state. The contract is intended to give participating agencies in Virginia a streamlined acquisition process for Oracle database, applications, support, maintenance, training and professional service offerings, Mythics said Wednesday. Doug Altamura, executive vice […] More

NTT Data and Oracle have expanded a partnership with the intent to incorporate end-to-end cloud computing features into the latter’s unified healthcare analytics platform. Both companies aim to help healthcare organizations merge, expand or replace data warehouse and data aggregation tools with Oracle’s Healthcare Foundation platform, NTT Data said Monday. Healthcare Foundation is designed to support warehousing of administrative, clinical, financial and -omics modules […] More

Mythics has been awarded a multiyear contract by the Illinois Department of Central Management Services to provide Oracle products and services to public sector organizations throughout the state. The Oracle Statewide Master Contract will serve as a vehicle for the state’s government agencies to access and procure cloud, technology, applications, support, hardware, engineered systems and professional services, Mythics said Friday. “We are proud to […] More

Oracle will invest $1.4 billion in direct and in-kind to support computer science education across member states of the European Union in support of efforts to educate 3.1 million students in 110 countries. Oracle said Thursday the contract, that includes a one-year base period and four option years, will look to offer CS, Java and Database instruction training […] More