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"As organizations across Canada continue to accelerate their technology transformation programs, we anticipate the demand for Oracle solutions to grow significantly," said Jeffrey Russell, president of Accenture in Canada. Jennifer Jackson, Accenture Technology lead for Canada, said, "Cloudworks is a well-known Oracle services provider that has worked with organizations across Canada and across industries. We are thrilled to grow our Technology practice in Canada with the Cloudworks team who strengthen our ability to meet the growing need from Canadian organizations to unleash the power of cloud, data and innovation to create truly future-ready organizations."
MariaDB announced the general availability of MariaDB Community Server 10.6, a major new release that brings significant advancements to the open source MariaDB community. MariaDB Community Server 10.6 adds important features for developers with JSON table functionality, frees users from expensive proprietary ties with expanded PL/SQL compatibility and adds powerful insurance for bad database days with atomic DDL that supports MariaDB's multiple storage engine architecture.
Wipro announced it is collaborating with Oracle to launch Wipro Zero Cost Transformation, a new offering that helps organizations migrate to the cloud. With Wipro's Zero Cost Transformation, companies can migrate their workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with lower cost, shift from a Capital expenditures to Operating expenses model, and benefit from application and infrastructure support provided under a managed-services framework.
Oracle this week announced the release of 390 new security fixes as part of the April 2021 Critical Patch Update, including patches for more than 200 bugs that could be exploited remotely without authentication. The quarterly set of security patches addresses a total of 41 vulnerabilities considered critical severity, including 5 that feature a CVSS score of 10.
Zimperium announced that it is collaborating with Oracle to offer Zimperium's mobile threat defense solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The two companies are working together to help enterprises around the world combat advanced mobile threats.
Knoa announced the availability of its UEM product for Oracle Cloud applications. Knoa UEM for Oracle Cloud enables visibility into employee interactions with the Oracle Cloud applications, user adoption during a new rollout, the level of performance delivered to the end-user, the locations of process bottlenecks and the cause of user experience issues with the software.
Confluent announced Confluent's Premium Connector for Oracle Change Data Capture Source, a bridge for one of the most common and critical sources of enterprise data to connect to Apache Kafka. As the first in a series of Premium Connectors, Confluent makes integrations with complex, high-value systems seamless, reliable, and cost-effective to establish a continuously flowing stream of data that powers the business.
A financially-motivated threat actor notorious for its cryptojacking attacks has leveraged a revised version of their malware to target cloud infrastructures using vulnerabilities in web server technologies, according to new research. Deployed by the China-based cybercrime group Rocke, the Pro-Ocean cryptojacking malware now comes with improved rootkit and worm capabilities, as well as harbors new evasion tactics to sidestep cybersecurity companies' detection methods, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 researchers said in a Thursday write-up.
The financially-motivated Rocke hackers are using a new piece of cryptojacking malware called Pro-Ocean to target vulnerable instances of Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis. The new malware is a step up from the previous threat used by the group in that it comes with self-spreading capabilities, blindly throwing exploits at discovered machines.
To help organizations increase the efficiency of their global supply chains, Oracle announced new logistics capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing. The updates to Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management, a part of Oracle Cloud SCM, help customers reduce costs, make better planning decisions, and improve customer experience.