article thumbnail

Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud services and sales of SaaS applications boosted Oracle revenue for its last fiscal quarter, but the price of keeping up with the leading hyperscale cloud providers dragged down overall profit. Oracle’s user base grows. Oracle did have results to brag about, in terms of growing its cloud user base. Ellison said.

Oracle 105
article thumbnail

Optimizing The Data Warehouse: A Big Data Blueprint from Pentaho

CTOvision

Time to value: MapReduce development time is reduced by up to 15x versus hand-coding based on comparisons. Architecture Example: Pentaho Benefits: Easy to use ETL and analysis for Hadoop, Hbase, and Oracle data sources. Faster job execution: Pentaho MapReduce runs faster in cluster versus code generating scripting tools.

Big Data 298
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Elizabeth Holmes saga is far from over

Vox

Holmes did have support from some prominent tech investors, including venture capitalist Don Lucas and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. Often dressing in a uniform black turtleneck and embracing her status as a college dropout-turned-founder, Holmes also welcomed comparison to Silicon Valley royalty, like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.

Film 67
article thumbnail

Oracle names new cloud infrastructure leader, signals broader ambitions to challenge Amazon

GeekWire

Six-year Oracle veteran Clay Magouyrk is the new executive vice president in charge of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, based in Seattle, reporting to co-founder Larry Ellison, executive chairman and chief technology officer. Photo by Marc Fiorito / Gamma Nine Photography, via Oracle.).

Oracle 141
article thumbnail

Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO Business Intelligence

Overall, Quinlan warns against treating job titles as apples-to-apples comparisons across companies. with fixed income trading software, coming either from a competitor, or having worked as a fixed income trader themselves), as well as technologically (e.g., The more expert they are in the product domain commercially (e.g.,