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Oracle expands cloud footprint with a second region in Chile

CIO Business Intelligence

Oracle on Wednesday said it is opening a second cloud region in Chile as part of ongoing efforts to expand its global cloud footprint to compete with the larger rivals including AWS, Microsoft, and Google. In contrast, Google has two cloud regions in South America — Santiago, Chile, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Cloud Computing

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

The engineer “replaced one file with another” in “an honest mistake that cost the country millions,” with the incident holding some obvious lessons for ensuring critical data is backed up redundantly, especially if you’re going to be mucking around with the backup system. Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Generative AI, IT Strategy

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10 top priorities for CIOs in 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

Gain stronger control over data Jae Evans, global CIO and executive vice president at Oracle, is planning to prioritize data control in 2024, and CIOs across industries would be wise to follow suit. “As As a large enterprise, we have vast amounts of data from disparate sources,” she says.

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Fountainhead: Private Clouds are Real and In Use

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. It wanted an early-warning system that could analyze data from its 100-plus clinics and hospitals and spot outbreaks of infectious diseases, and it had to do so on a tight budget. Big Data. (6). Business Models. (1). Data Center efficiency. (1).

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Kamal Goel has migrated from one data centre operator to another. Before that he worked in a number of other roles in IT infrastructure and data centre planning and management. Web Werks operates Tier-III data centres, in Mumbai, Pune and Delhi, with plans to open others in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai.

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CIOs weigh the new economics and risks of cloud lock-in

CIO Business Intelligence

The more applications and businesses that depend on a single cloud provider, the greater the potential for wide-scale impact of business continuity failures, Gartner’s surveys revealed. McGowan asks about SaaS partners such as Salesforce, Veeva, Box, and Oracle Cloud. It is no longer a decision between AWS and Azure.

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Never miss a payday again

Dataconomy

Traditional AP methods often involved manual data entry, a painstaking process prone to errors. The laborious task of keying in data from invoices and documents not only consumed time but also led to inaccuracies that could have far-reaching consequences. According to a study by the Aberdeen Group , businesses can save up to $1.50

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