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Oracle announced that Rescale's cloud HPC simulation platform is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Rescale cloud HPC platform, built on a powerful high-performance computing infrastructure, seamlessly matches software applications with the best cloud or on-premises architecture to run complex data processing and simulations.
Oracle announced that it was chosen to become TikTok's secure cloud technology provider. "TikTok picked Oracle's new Generation 2 Cloud infrastructure because it's much faster, more reliable, and more secure than the first generation technology currently offered by all the other major cloud providers," said Oracle Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison.
With these capabilities, Oracle is the only cloud service provider to offer a cloud security posture management dashboard at no additional cost, with numerous pre-built tools that automate response to reduce customer risk quickly and efficiently. Oracle Maximum Security Zones and Oracle Cloud Guard embed decades of enterprise security expertise and best practices into the Oracle public cloud in an autonomous fashion, accelerating customers' ability to ramp up to their cloud estate securely from inception.
Oracle on Monday announced the general availability of its Cloud Guard and Maximum Security Zones cloud security tools. Cloud Guard and Maximum Security Zones were some of the new security services univeled by Oracle in September 2019.
American tech giant Microsoft said Sunday its offer to buy TikTok was rejected, leaving Oracle as the sole remaining bidder ahead of the imminent deadline for the Chinese-owned video app to sell or shut down its US operations. The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported that Oracle had won the bidding war, citing people familiar with the deal, although the company did not immediately confirm that to AFP. But two Chinese state media outlets - CGTN and China News Service - said Monday that ByteDance will not sell TikTok to Oracle either, citing unnamed sources.
Data Intensity announced the launch of Safe-Switch, a life-cycle approach to migrating and managing Oracle applications and database platforms on Microsoft Azure. In response to the Oracle and Microsoft Cloud Interoperability Partnership announcement, Safe-Switch was created to help customers accelerate their consumption of heterogenous cloud adoption, with freedom of choice and seamless integration for Oracle and Microsoft workloads.
The number of vulnerabilities being disclosed by major technology companies is returning to normal levels after a lower-than-usual first quarter, due in no small part to the disruption from the coronavirus pandemic. "It is also important to note that 2015's single Fujiwhara event saw a total of 277 disclosed vulnerabilities from all reports that day, less than half of what we saw from the April Fujiwhara this year. During April's Fujiwhara event we saw 506 new vulnerabilities reported, 79% of which came from seven vendors. Compared to other Patch Tuesdays this year, the highest reported"only" 273 new vulnerabilities on June 9th.".
Sourcepoint has formed a relationship to help Oracle customers protect consumer privacy and manage compliance and user consent. Sourcepoint offers a fully customizable compliance management platform that allows companies to capture, manage, and optimize customer privacy preferences across a range of channels, including web, apps, AMP, and even emerging areas such as OTT and audio.
Salesforce and Oracle are to face a GDPR lawsuit in London and the Netherlands that could cost them up to €10bn in fines, a legally aggressive privacy campaign group has claimed to The Register. Dr Rebecca Rumbul of the Privacy Collective told The Register: "We're looking at informed consent. Bluekai would collect data not just on one particular site but other sites too and then aggregate that data. The key thing is, under GDPR who is the data processor legally? You should be able to figure that out."
With this offering, enterprises get the exact same complete set of modern cloud services, APIs, industry-leading SLAs, superior price-performance, and highest levels of security available from Oracle's public cloud regions in their own datacenters. Over the past few years, enterprise adoption of public clouds has gone mainstream as companies took advantage of the pay-as-you-go economics, scale, and agility of cloud computing.