Intel Blockchain Technology Offered as a Service in Oracle Cloud

Blockchain is transformative technology that has the potential to change the way enterprises, governments, and consumers coordinate workflows and exchange data and assets. Today at Oracle OpenWorld, Intel announced that its processor technology is being utilized by Oracle to deliver a cloud-based blockchain service to its enterprise customers. More: “Putting ‘Data Front and Center’ of … Continued

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Intel Blockchain Technology Offered as a Service in Oracle Cloud

Blockchain is transformative technology that has the potential to change the way enterprises, governments, and consumers coordinate workflows and exchange data and assets. Today at Oracle OpenWorld, Intel announced that its processor technology is being utilized by Oracle to deliver a cloud-based blockchain service to its enterprise customers. More: “Putting ‘Data Front and Center’ of … Continued

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Putting ‘Data Front and Center’ of Innovation in the Enterprise-Class Cloud

By Doug Fisher Data is a powerful force – one that is transforming nearly every aspect of our lives. Intel’s transformation into a data-driven company means that we deliver technological advancements to enable our customers to extract the maximum value from data. This, in turn, helps them grow and transform their businesses. Nowhere was the … Continued

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Putting ‘Data Front and Center’ of Innovation in the Enterprise-Class Cloud

By Doug Fisher Data is a powerful force – one that is transforming nearly every aspect of our lives. Intel’s transformation into a data-driven company means that we deliver technological advancements to enable our customers to extract the maximum value from data. This, in turn, helps them grow and transform their businesses. Nowhere was the … Continued

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BlockApps CEO Likens The Block Chain ‘Sandbox’ To Oracle’s Database Role

BlockApps, a Microsoft affiliate designed to provide an enterprise block chain toolkit to help businesses develop new functionalities, brings to mind the role that Oracle plays in the future of decentralized databases, according to Victor Wong, BlockApps CEO. In an interview with International Business Times, Wong cited Oracle’s role as a database provider as a parallel to BlockApp’s role providing tools such as smart contracts for businesses to use to create new functionalities. Microsoft Enters The Block Chain Arena Microsoft partnered with an Ethereum-based startup, ConsenSys, to deliver block chain as an enterprise solution for clients of its cloud-based Azure […]

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Chip Shot: Intel Joins OpenJDK to Extend Open Source Engagement

During his keynote today at Oracle OpenWorld’s JavaOne, Michael Greene, vice president of Intel’s Software and Services Group and general manager of the System Technologies and Optimization division, announced that Intel is joining the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) community to further its collaboration on open source implementation of Java. Intel is broadening its work with Oracle by extending its open source Java contribution. Intel’s involvement in the OpenJDK community will result in more expansive engagement with Java that includes contributing math library functions to boost big data analytics performance for machine learning. Learn more about the OpenJDK community.

Chip Shot: Intel Delivering Customized Silicon for Enterprise Solutions

Intel has created a customized SKU based on its latest Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v2 family that, when coupled with Oracle software enhancements, allows Oracle to deliver an “elastic compute environment.”  The solution requires customization of the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 SKU as well as software changes that enable the Oracle application to dynamically scale the frequency and number of cores to maximize performance. Disclosure of this work was made today at the announcement of Oracle’s new Exadata Database Machine X4-8. This is another example of Intel providing optimized solutions for its partners to address specific workload needs, in this case for enterprise customers.

Chip Shot: Intel’s Doug Fisher Keynotes at Oracle OpenWorld

Today during his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, Intel Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Software and Services Group, Doug Fisher, outlined a new era of innovation and data mining that will help drive the evolution of IT. This transformation of IT continues  with the explosion of connected mobile devices and the Internet of Things, each consuming services and generating massive amounts of varied data. Fisher described Intel’s strategy to provide building blocks and collaborate with Oracle to provide enterprise-class solutions, including certified Oracle Big Data Connectors with Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop. More information on this collaboration will be available in Q4’13.