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“By this time next year, Oracle employees won’t be using passwords” — Larry Ellison wants a biometric future in cybersecurity
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison took a strong stand on cybersecurity at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, calling passwords a “terrible idea” in need of replacement with biometric security measures. “The idea that we use passwords is a ridiculous idea. It’s obsolete. It’s very dangerous,” Ellison said during his keynote at the company’s flagship event in Las Vegas. “They are 17 characters long…
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Sovereign cloud demand is “truly global” according to Oracle — and the company is well placed to capitalize on it
The demand for sovereign cloud capabilities is “truly global” according to a senior figure at Oracle, and the company intends to fully capitalize on this trend in the year ahead. Speaking to ITPro at a roundtable at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, Scott Twaddle, SVP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), product and industries, described the burgeoning sovereign cloud computing market as “fascinating”…
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‘Many of our long-time rivals are now our partners’: Why Oracle is doubling down on multi-cloud
Oracle has announced a new partnership with AWS at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, forming part of the firm’s wider mission to bolster multi-cloud environments across the enterprise. The new offering will allow customers to use Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS environments, providing a connected experience across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS. Similarly, customers will be…
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Oracle can do for AI what it did for cloud – and CloudWorld 2024 is its chance to show that
At nearly half a century old, Oracle is the definition of an industry veteran. The firm has weathered decades of technological change, including the advent of cloud computing and the more recent explosion of generative AI. It would be fair to say Oracle hasn’t always rushed to adopt new trends. The company was notably slow to join the cloud computing…
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