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Amazon to Acquire Health Care Company One Medical in $3.9 Billion Deal

Presplay — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 18:37:04 +0000

The acquisition signals Amazon’s continued foray into the healthcare market having bought PillPack in 2018 for $750 million, using the acquisition to launch its own online pharmacy years later. Amazon has also ramped up effort in its telehealth service Amazon Care, along with plans to develop at-home medical diagnostics.

The deal — one of its largest acquisitions ever — will give Amazon a physical network of health-care offices and providers, as well as access to technology the start-up has built to enable virtual doctor visits. It adds to the company’s existing health-care portfolio, which includes an online pharmacy and Amazon Care, a virtual and in-home urgent care service.

“There is an immense opportunity to make the health care experience more accessible, affordable and even enjoyable for patients, providers, and payers,” One Medical CEO Amir Dan Rubin said in a statement.

The deal is a sign of Amazon’s long-simmering health care ambitions. As the company has marched from one retail business to another — including books, CDs, electronics, dog food, diapers and clothes — it has had to look in less obvious spots to find opportunities that can provide meaningful expansion.

Oracle Extends Database Leadership with Oracle Database 21c

Presplay — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 03:11:44 +0000

Introduces more than 200 new innovations, further advancing Oracle’s converged database engine

Automated machine learning easily runs inference directly on the database

Free, native blockchain tables provide secure audit trail on transactions and processes

Persistent memory support delivers breakthrough operational database performance

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Jan 13, 2021, 11:00 ET

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 13, 2021 /Presplaycloud/ — Oracle announced that Oracle Database 21c, the latest version of the world’s leading converged database, is available on Oracle Cloud, including the Always Free tier of Oracle Autonomous Database. Oracle Database 21c contains more than 200 new innovations, including immutable blockchain tables, In-Database JavaScript, native JSON binary data type, AutoML for in-database machine learning (ML), and persistent memory store, as well as enhancements for in-memory, graph processing performance, sharding, multitenant, and security. Unlike other vendors’ single-purpose databases in the cloud or on-premises, Oracle Database 21c provides support for multi-model, multi-workload, and multi-tenant requirements – all within a single, modern converged database engine. In addition, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle APEX (Application Express) Application Development, a new low-code service for developing and deploying data-driven enterprise applications quickly and easily. The browser-based, low-code cloud service enables developers to create modern web apps for desktops and mobile devices using an intuitive graphical interface.

“Oracle Database 21c continues our strategy of delivering the world’s most powerful converged database engine,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, executive vice president, database server technologies, Oracle. “It provides leading JSON document processing performance. It provides breakthrough operational database performance with Intel^® Optane Persistent Memory support. It provides industry-leading analytic database capabilities with new Self-Managing In-Memory Column Store, highest performance graph processing, and AutoML for simplest machine learning model development. It provides Immutable Blockchain Tables for tamperproof SQL tables. Competing vendors require separate JSON document, operational, analytic, graph, ML, and blockchain databases and services to support these capabilities. Oracle’s converged database approach makes developers far more productive when building new applications, and makes it easy to later evolve applications to meet new business requirements.”

What Analysts are Saying about Oracle Database

“With the launch of Database 21c, Oracle has elevated its flagship database to a new level of convergence with broad support for a wide variety of data types and workloads,” said Carl Olofson, Research Vice President, Data Management Software, IDC. “The 200 new built-in innovations, including immutable blockchain tables and AutoML for in-database machine learning, elevate Oracle Database 21c to a new level of functionality, eliminating the need for specialized, isolated cloud services and tools to do those jobs. Users can avoid the compounding of costs and operational complexity that comes with each additional cloud service that organizations ordinarily use. In this way, Oracle is effectively slicing away at this disjointed set of services with a simplified, more technically elegant, and integrated approach that is far better suited for the enterprise needs of 2021.”

“Oracle’s latest converged database—Database 21c—focuses on making life dramatically easier for both users and developers. It supports and integrates an expanded range of data models and workloads, and includes built-in machine learning to eliminate the need for separate tooling and services by enabling organizations to run inference directly on their database, right next to their data. This is a refreshing contrast for organizations that leverage the likes of AWS, which has more than a dozen different databases, each requiring customers to deal with different APIs, ETL approaches and data integration processes. Oracle Database 21c transcends the barriers of a multi, isolated, and intrinsically non-converged, database approach,” said Mark Peters, Principal Analyst & Practice Director, ESG.

What Customers are Saying about Oracle Database

Headquartered in London, Aon is a US$46B global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions. “We’ve never been able to see all of our Oracle sales and marketing data in one, unified system. It’s a real milestone. Using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud, we’ve seen performance boosted by 50X to 60X that makes response times to complex sales queries from 500 power users much faster and analytics costs are significantly lower than our on-premises business intelligence tools,” said Liesbeth Mulder, Global Reporting Lead, Aon.

Angelini Pharma is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Italy. “The Quinaryo XRing solution has been an important step ahead in our IoT strategy to experiment with a wearable device integrated with a data security tool based on a blockchain table solution,” said Pietro Berretoni, Digital & Innovation Head, Angelini Pharma. “With Oracle Blockchain Tables, the solution provides tamper-proof records that can easily integrate with other applications without requiring a complex new infrastructure. Oracle Database includes all the tools we know and new features like Oracle Blockchain Tables that we can leverage with XRing for sensible data collection.”

New Innovations in Oracle Database 21c

Oracle Database 21c is the database engine that powers Oracle database services in the cloud and on-premises, including Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Exadata Database Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Exadata Database Machine. The latest release includes more than 200 new innovations, which extend database convergence to new use cases, optimize performance, and improve developer, analyst, and data scientist productivity. Key innovations include:

Immutable Blockchain Tables: Blockchain Tables bring the key security benefits of blockchain technology to enterprise applications. Part of Oracle’s Crypto-Secure Data Management, Blockchain Tables provide immutable insert-only tables whose rows are cryptographically chained together. By providing tamper detection and prevention capabilities directly in the Oracle Database, customers can protect against illicit changes by insiders or hackers impersonating administrators or users. Blockchain Tables are part of the converged database, accessed with standard SQL, and support full analytics and transactions – making it orders of magnitude easier to use, and more functional, than existing blockchain implementations. Blockchain Tables are a free feature in all Oracle Database editions.
Native JSON Data Type: Oracle has provided powerful SQL/JSON query and indexing support for many years. Database 21c adds a new JSON data type representation, enabling up to 10x faster scans and up to 4x faster update operations. Overall, these improvements make Oracle SQL/JSON 2x faster than MongoDB and AWS DocumentDB on the YCSB benchmark. As with previous releases, users can mix or join JSON and other data types; index any JSON element for fast OLTP; use declarative parallel SQL analytics across all formats; and run complex joins across multiple JSON documents and collections—all without any need for custom application code.
AutoML for In-Database Machine Learning: Automatically builds and compares machine-learning models at scale, and facilitates the use of machine learning by non-experts. A new AutoML user interface makes it easier for non-expert users to leverage in-database machine learning. Oracle also added new algorithms for anomaly detection, regression, and deep learning analysis to our extensive library of popular, in-database machine learning algorithms.
In-Database JavaScript: Enables developers to work efficiently in modern programming languages. The embedded Graal Multilingual Engine allows JavaScript data processing code to run inside the database – where the data resides – eliminating expensive network round-trips. In addition, users can easily execute SQL from within JavaScript code, and JavaScript data types are automatically mapped to Oracle Database data.
Persistent Memory Support: Stores database data and redo logs in local Persistent Memory (PMEM), which significantly improves the performance of IO-bound workloads. SQL runs directly on data stored in the direct-mapped Persistent Memory file system, eliminating the IO code path and the need for large buffer cache. In addition, new database algorithms prevent partial or inconsistent stores to Persistent Memory.
Higher Performance Graph Models: Allows modelling of data based on relationships, and enables exploration of connections and patterns in social networks, IoT, and more. Further improvements in memory optimization reduce the amount of memory required to analyze larger graphs, which enables existing applications to run faster with no changes. In addition, users can create or extend graph algorithms using Java syntax, which can execute as native algorithms since they are compiled with the same optimizations.
Database In-Memory Automation: Oracle supports both row and column formats in the same table to allow analytics and transactions to run simultaneously on the same table. Oracle Database 21c introduces a Self-Managing In-Memory Column Store that simplifies and improves efficiency by automatically managing the placement and removal of objects in the In-Memory Column Store, then tracks usage patterns and moves and evicts objects from the column store. In addition, columns are automatically compressed based on usage patterns. Oracle Database 21c also introduces new in-memory vector join algorithms to speed up complex queries.
Sharding Automation: Native Database Sharding delivers hyperscale performance and availability while enabling global enterprises to easily meet data sovereignty and data privacy regulations. Data shards share no hardware or software, and can reside on-premises or in the cloud. To simplify the design and use of sharding, Oracle Database 21c includes a Sharding Advisor Tool that assesses a database schema plus its workload characteristics and then provides a sharded database design optimized for performance, scalability, and availability. Backup and Recovery across shards is also automated.

Hear what customers, partners, and analysts are saying about the new Oracle Database 21c.

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IBM Has a Lot to Prove this year

Presplay — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 02:50:32 +0000

Many tech stocks have soared as markets recovered from the pandemic-driven sell-off early last year. IBM (NYSE:IBM) is an exception. The century-old tech giant was already disliked by investors before the pandemic as it slogged through a multiyear turnaround; the company’s results have deteriorated since, as customers pull back on spending amid unprecedented uncertainty.

IBM’s fourth-quarter report last week sent the stock down around 10% on Friday, erasing the gains logged so far this year. While there were some green shoots in IBM’s results, it’s clear that the company has a lot of work to do to win over investors this year.

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Tumbling revenue and profit

IBM’s total revenue for the fourth quarter sank 6% to $20.4 billion; it was down 8% adjusting for divested businesses and currency. All of IBM’s segments struggled. The cloud and cognitive software segment, which houses some of IBM’s key cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) products, suffered a 7% sales decline. That was entirely due to a 26% plunge in sales of transaction processing products.

The services businesses fared no better. Global business services sales were down 5%, while global technology services sales were down 8%. “Our performance reflects the fact that our clients continue to deal with the effects of the pandemic and broader uncertainty of the macro environment,” said CEO Arvind Krishna during the earnings call.

The bottom line took a big dive thanks to lower revenue and a large restructuring charge. Adjusted earnings per share tumbled 56% to $2.07.

A return to growth this year

It wasn’t all bad news for IBM. Total cloud revenue grew by 10% during the quarter to $7.5 billion, pushing cloud revenue for the full year up to $25.1 billion. Red Hat also performed well, with normalized revenue soaring 19% from the prior-year period. The debt from the Red Hat acquisition is being quickly brought down, with IBM reducing its total debt load by $3.9 billion in the fourth quarter alone.

IBM expects to produce revenue growth in 2021 as spending from clients recovers, and as the company’s hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence initiatives take hold. IBM also expects to produce between $11 billion and $12 billion of free cash flow for the year, excluding cash spending related to restructuring and the planned spinoff of the managed infrastructure services business. The company logged $10.8 billion of free cash flow for 2020.

Krishna explained in the earnings call: “In 2021, the significant changes we have made to focus on hybrid cloud and AI will also begin to take hold. The company will look different at the end of the year, particularly with the execution of the spinout, but also with the operational changes to sharpen our focus.”

Time is not on IBM’s side

IBM has been transforming itself for the better part of a decade at this point. A return to sustainable growth has proved elusive. The acquisition of Red Hat in 2019 and the managed infrastructure services spinoff are the two biggest moves the company has made so far, and IBM is undoubtedly a leader in the hybrid cloud market that it sees as a $1 trillion opportunity. But there’s been little in the way of improved financial results, which is what the market cares about.

Revenue growth this year isn’t going to be enough on its own to convince investors that the IBM turnaround story is worth investing in. The bar is low: Revenue slumped 5% in 2020 as the pandemic raged. IBM needs to convince investors that its return to growth is for real this time, driven by its bets on hybrid cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and other growth areas. Another temporary return to growth isn’t going to cut it.

For patient investors who believe in IBM’s strategy, the stock has a lot to offer. It now trades for just 9.5 times the low end of the company’s free cash flow guidance for 2021, and it sports a dividend yield of 5.5%. There’s a strong value case to be made for IBM; whether it works out for investors in the long run depends on the company’s all-in bet on hybrid cloud computing paying off.

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PRESPLAY technologies-DBA support system and L1 support

Presplay — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:39:37 +0000

This article talks about the DBA support system and the basic level that is L1 support of PRESPLAY technologies.

A database link connection allows local users to access data on a remote database. Each database in distributed system must have a unique global database name in a network domain. We get to know from Noel Yuhanna’s blog how many databases a DBA typically manages, then form many interviews of organizations he gets to know that current industry average is 40 databases to a DBA for large enterprises, with the lowest ratio seen around eight and the highest at 275. This is a huge variation. PRESPLAY is having trusted resources who know your data inside and out when database changes are required through DBA support system. We have dedicated DBA support team that works on shifts to provide your database at 24*7*365 days continuous support.

There are some roles and responsibilities of an oracle database that it monitors the event alerts and notify to the concerned department and process the request, it also monitors the backups, recovery errors and many more responsibilities. It plays three roles in general, they are L1, L2, and L3. DBA L1 support plays a general role in which it alerts monitoring, reporting, and escalations. It also works on incident management process and L1 support escalates the incidents to L2 if not resolvable by L1. PRESPLAY technologies support system of database scale up and down as per your requirements. L1 support typically includes individuals that have very limited technical expertise. L1 tracks tickets until successfully resolved. L1 engineers can implement basic, documented tasks and it is the first level of support system.

We have a tendency to perform any DBA support task anytime you would like it. Here we manage the database with the support team by distributing their defined roles and responsibilities of each team member and they complete their roles with full dedication. Each member works on a defined model and procedures with defined time-constraint. We implement and manage these services on a very cost-effective way by working on global database models. We also assure that you get the standard expertise help in managing your remote database. We provide you the access to monitor and manage your database. We believe that quality services, check and standardization changes to the organization, server or instance at the same time whereas internal DBA team work on alternative priorities.

Remote assistance is essential for critical solutions for maintaining the database server. Whenever the databases are functioning round the clock 24 x 7 with highly scope of consideration, and databases are accessed by global users. Finding out the critical issues from unknown database errors should be resolved instantly. Implementing vital security at all the levels is very crucial to utilize and control all the levels of databases and operating systems. Omission of security may straightly collision the scope of database server. For illustration, besides any requisite security, unauthorized users can access the data and despoil data from the database.

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Daily maintenance of huge and critical database errors on the server is not an easy task for every DBA. Particularly when more than one databases include in the critical environment with different versions of databases on different operating systems platforms with multi-level use of hardware peripherals usage its highly critical to manage database environment. Only highly skilled level of expertise DBA can understand the multiple types of the environment without any hassle and proficient to manage the mysterious oracle – errors and user errors.

Performance of Oracle database is the ultimate challenging mission for every Oracle DBA. Analysis of quick and secure performance issues are solved quickly with a wide knowledge of experience. Dedicated tasks are done with highly skilled professional to resolve the required the performance blockage of the Database server.