Petabytes
of Data
AT&T will migrate thousands of its existing Oracle Database
instances and related application workloads to run in Oracle Cloud
as part of a long-term agreement under which it will tap Oracle
platform-, infrastructure-, and software-as-a-service offerings.
Those AT&T databases and applications, which underpin a range
of the global telecom carrier's services, contain many petabytes of
data. Oracle CEO Mark Hurd called it a "historic" agreement, and
it's one that should be of interest to IT leaders considering how
to move existing workloads to the cloud.
AT&T is in the midst of virtualizing and software-controlling
its global wide area network, enabling it to introduce new services
more quickly and enable "a seamless and intuitive network
experience for our customers," says John Donovan, chief strategy
officer and group president of AT&T Technology and Operations.
"This collaboration with Oracle accelerates our network
transformation and migration to the cloud to expand efficiency and
performance and reduce cost while improving overall customer
service." The first
step.
— Rob Preston, Oracle editorial director
More Cloud News
The
CFO's New Team
"The cloud plays a big role here, but so do people," says Oracle's
big data strategist Paul Sonderegger, in describing how CFOs must
add to their technology tools and ensure that these new
technologies integrate into their existing enterprise architecture.
"CFOs need to build data science teams to quickly create and test
new hypotheses about the business." Where should CFOs
begin?
NetSuite and the Elephant in the Room
There was a big question on everyone’s mind at the recent
SuiteWorld event: how would things change now that Oracle has
acquired NetSuite? Jim McGeever, executive vice president of
Oracle’s NetSuite, reassured customers that the cloud application
provider would remain its own business unit and described five ways NetSuite can now
deliver more as part of Oracle.
Terraform Provider Adds Built-in Cloud Support
HashiCorp's Terraform, an open source orchestration tool for
provisioning cloud infrastructure, now fully supports Oracle
Compute Cloud with a built-in Terraform provider for Oracle Cloud
services. How to use
it.
Oracle’s
IoT Lets Noble Plastics Better Serve Its Customers
“These cloud projects are made to be customized, so I see them as a
good companion to our robotics,” says Scott Rogers, technical
director at Noble Plastics. Here, he explains how the Oracle
Internet of Things enables the company to be more competitive and
to better serve its customers. Here's
how.
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