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Oracle makes its pitch for the enterprise cloud. Should CIOs listen?

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In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East. Long-term aspirations What are Oracle’s long-term goals for the cloud?

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Google Cloud Platform vs AWS: Is the answer obvious? Maybe not.

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Google Cloud Platform vs AWS: what’s the deal? After the release of the latest earnings reports a few weeks ago from AWS, Azure, and GCP, it’s clear that Microsoft is continuing to see growth, Amazon is maintaining a steady lead, and Google is stepping in. Is Google Cloud catching up to AWS?

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Feeding America turns to data to feed the hungry

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We coordinate donations from manufacturers, retailers, grocers. MealConnect connects retailers with food banks to support local food rescue. The data warehouse was built on Google Cloud with Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services for data integration and Tableau for data outputs. We source a lot of food.

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Which workloads are best suited for cloud vs. on-premises or edge?

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Where I’ve seen AI projects fail is in trying to bring the massive amounts of data from where it’s created to the training model [in some public cloud] and get timely insights, versus taking the model and bringing it closer to where the data is created,” Lavista explains. Artificial intelligence (AI) projects are another useful example.

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MoneyGram profits from mainframe move to multicloud

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The Dallas-based money transfer service provider continues to derive roughly half its annual revenue from traditional sources: international money transfers at retail storefronts and customers paying down payments for cars and rent by purchasing money orders. For example, in Mexico, the company’s market remains 95% cash pickup.

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3 Things to Look Forward to at Google Cloud Next 2019

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Google Cloud Next 2019 will be our first Google event – and we’re looking forward to it! Google hopes to attract 30,000 attendees this year – up from 23,000 last year – to the San Francisco conference. At the event last year, Google Cloud made over 100 announcements.

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Which Workloads Belong On-Premises as Part of Hybrid IT

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Where I’ve seen AI projects fail is in trying to bring the massive amounts of data from where it’s created to the training model [in some public cloud] and get timely insights, versus taking the model and bringing it closer to where the data is created,” Lavista explains. Artificial intelligence (AI) projects are another useful example.