MySQL HeatWave is a cloud database service that has enabled Oracle to create differentiation in the open-source MySQL market. With the latest announcement that MySQL HeatWave is available natively on AWS, Oracle looks to accelerate that separation from other cloud database providers. What exactly is HeatWave, and what did Oracle announce? I’ll try to answer …
Digital transformation, modernization, zero trust and data-driven are buzzwords every IT executive has likely heard one too many times. Nevertheless, these concepts are keys to survival in the digital economy. This is a truism for companies across all vertical industries, including those that build the technology fueling modernization projects. HPE started its transformation in 2018, …
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Another year flew by, and we had the second Google Data Cloud Summit. The multi-week event is a comprehensive overview of the “state of Google Cloud.” In this article, I will describe some the most important announcements from this annual event and add some opinion. A single unified data platform Before diving into Google’s new …
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Every time I write about AMD, I start with “it’s been a great few weeks for the company….” This piece will begin the same way. The company had a great quarter; its 2022 outlook is strong, the Xilinx acquisition closed, and EPYC continues to gain share across all market segments. Last week, AMD launched Milan-X …
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Oracle announced its next-generation MySQL HeatWave offering today, focusing on machine learning (ML)-based automation and scalability that the company claims will drive greater performance and price-performance leadership in the market. As part of today’s news, a raft of new publicly accessible and repeatable benchmarks became available, demonstrating Oracle’s claim that MySQL HeatWave is an incredible …
Last year I took a much closer look at Oracle Cloud. I discussed how the traditional cloud boundaries are becoming blurred with the integration of Oracle Autonomous Database, which provisions databases, configures and tunes for specific workloads, and scales compute resources when needed, automatically. And while I previously had very little good to say about its Gen1 OCI, …
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