Flexential, a leading provider of data center colocation, cloud and connectivity, and a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced it will offer connectivity to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect. Flexential is expanding its Cloud Fabric ecosystem by offering low latency interconnection options to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This can allow customers in any Flexential data center across its national FlexAnywhere platform to connect to OCI. Through collaboration with Flexential, Oracle customers can benefit from reliable network access to their cloud data and applications from any Flexential facility via Oracle FastConnect on-ramps located in Ashburn, VA, San Jose, CA, and Chicago, IL. This has the potential to facilitate improved performance, enhanced control, flexibility, and scalability through easier access to critical business data and functions.

With implementations spanning from manufacturing to transportation and healthcare, the completed projects provide clients with an automated capital lifecycle process that helps shorten the time required to complete capital portfolio planning activities, from request to execution. Alithya's Capital Portfolio Planning is a proprietary solution built on decades of experience gleaned from Oracle clients in asset intensive environments. It helps manage the capital budget lifecycle from investment ideation to capital budget setting, project authorization, and ongoing monitoring of the financial health of the in-flight capital program. Alithya's CPP provides a request-based capital investment proposal process coupled with cloud-based workflows to set and manage capital budgets. Latest Insights: What Techniques Will Deliver for Measuring Attention in 2023?

Oracle is bringing Nvidia's AI Enterprise software suite alongside thousands of its latest GPUs to its cloud infrastructure, which could fuel the chipmaker's plans to make billions from subscription services. The partnership, which builds on earlier deployments, sets up Nvidia with the kind of infrastructure it requires to expand on a long-term goal to become a software powerhouse. It also gives Oracle's cloud service the plug-and-play hardware capacity and software framework to easily deploy AI software. Oracle and Nvidia have common expertise in areas that include healthcare, manufacturing, communications and financial services, and there's a lot of opportunity to collaborate there, said Leo Leung, vice president at Oracle, during a press briefing. The companies are "looking at the full stack so not just the GPUs and infrastructure but getting into the software layer, getting into the service layer," Leung said. Nvidia is known as a graphics chip company, but is betting its future on generating more revenue from software and services.

Trinamix, a Platinum-level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), announced the launch of Industry 4.0 Lab to help enterprises enable smart manufacturing using Oracle Internet of Things (IoT), Oracle Adaptive Intelligence, and Oracle Blockchain applications. Hosted at Trinamix's San Jose office, the lab will offer visiting customers a miniature experience that highlights how Oracle solutions will work in an industrial scenario, connected with machines through devices and gateways. Trinamix has been working on Industry 4.0 (I4.0) solutions for the last two years and has undertaken various initiatives to provide an end-to-end offering to its customers. Trinamix offers design thinking, creating quick proof of concept, road map and implementation services on I4.0. This lab drives Trinamix's focus on the newest and the next wave of disruptive technologies including Artificial Intelligence, blockchain, data science and factory automation.

Modern agriculture depends on bees. In fact, our entire ecosystem, including the food we eat and the air we breathe, counts on pollinators. But the pollinator population is declining according to Sabiha Rumani Malik, the founder and executive president of The World Bee Project. But, in an intriguing collaboration with Oracle and by putting artificial intelligence, internet of things and big data to work on the problem, they hope to reverse the trend. Why is the global bee population in decline?

"Innovation" is such an exciting concept, it's a shame the mainstream conversation about it has gotten so boring. My Twitter feed is an endless scroll of promises about the next-best, game-changing technology that's going to be "über of" whatever industry. The buzzwords alone are enough to make my eyes glaze over, which is a shame because the startups and founders emerging today, no longer beholden to the Silicon Valley zip code, have fresh approaches to solving the world's pressing problems. So with the global proliferation of thought-provoking solutions in fields like artificial intelligence, blockchain, sustainability, and diversity, how do we overcome innovation fatigue and remember why we love startups and their technology in the first place? Here's my take: innovation is only as exciting as its application.

Delivering that kind of responsive experience is not only possible, it's here today. Digital Home Service, powered by Oracle Cloud, taps into the power of machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and predictive analytics to give providers a cloud-based weapon in the war for media and entertainment industry consumer loyalty. It's safe to say that no one likes waiting for the service technician to get new TV service set up. The technology behind Digital Home Service can eliminate this part of the consumer experience entirely. In its place is a self-serve set-top box setup guided by a user-friendly mobile app, intelligent chatbot, and, if needed, live video support.

Oracle embeds artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities across its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) solutions, including big data, analytics, and security operations, to enable digital transformations. Together, Oracle says, the two companies will provide customers with a single data science platform that leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the breadth of Oracle's integrated SaaS and PaaS offerings to help them realize the full potential of machine learning.

When it's time to demo the latest Internet of Things and chatbot technology for a bunch of developers, you might as well have fun. Beer is also a plus. That was the thinking as members of the Oracle Developer Community built interactive cloud experiences for the Developer Lounge at the annual JavaOne conference in San Francisco, California. The experiences demonstrated how Oracle Cloud technology can open up fields such as art and filmmaking to new possibilities and how it can be a catalyst to innovations in robotics and industrial automation. JavaOne attendees enjoy consuming IoT technology by the glass.

American tech giant Oracle on Thursday announced the first batch of startups for its Startup Cloud Accelerator programme in New Delhi and Mumbai. The selected young ventures are using technologies such as artificial intelligence and Internet of Things to solve problems such as diagnosing diseases among newborn babies to providing anti-counterfeiting solutions to enterprises. "What is interesting is that majority of the companies that applied are using artificial intelligence and machine learning and these are areas that we have (already) embraced tremendously," said Sanket Atal, group vice president of Development, Oracle, in a telephone interview. "This underscores how the synergy is happening between Oracle cloud offering and startups," said Mr. Atal.