Press Release Pennsylvania State University Joins Oracle Academy to Help Students Become Cloud Developers and Technology Leaders Penn State’s 22 Campuses Gain Free Cloud Resources, Curriculum, Faculty Training, and Technology Redwood Shores, Calif.—Oct 28, 2020 Today, Oracle announced that The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) will now offer Oracle Academy computing education curriculum and resources across 22 campuses, which serve nearly 100,000 students. Through the collaboration, students receive hands-on technology experience and develop skills to become career-ready in the era of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, data science, and beyond.   “In today’s economy, technology is essential to every industry,” said Donald...

Press Release Sultanate of Oman Launches Major National Project to Strengthen Digital Economy Selects Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to Realize Country’s Vision for 2040 Redwood Shores Calif—Jul 13, 2020 Today Oracle announced that the Government of the Sultanate of Oman has selected Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer to support the Government’s national initiative to accelerate digital transformation across more than 120 government and semi-government entities with an integrated Government Cloud (G – Cloud) platform. The initiative is led by the Oman Information and Communications Technology Group (OICTG), a new entity established by the Oman Investment Authority (OIA), owned by the Government of the Sultanate of...

Press Release Oracle Awarded Framework Agreement from Government of Canada New initiative expands cloud options for Oracle-based workloads including Oracle Database, Weblogic, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and Siebel Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 9, 2020 Oracle announced today the award of a Framework Agreement for the provision of secure cloud services to the Government of Canada. This agreement gives Oracle’s Canadian federal government customers the ability to securely store, manage and process sensitive data and applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Focused on a “cloud-first” strategy, the Government of Canada uses cloud services as its preferred delivery option when initiating information technology investments, initiatives, strategies and projects....

Press Release Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC Explores Breakthrough Tissue "Fingerprints" Concept for Cancer Diagnostics Using Oracle Cloud Technology Tissue “fingerprinting” enables deep-learning algorithm to predict biomarkers, prognosis and theragnosis, set to improve understanding of cancer biology and accelerate clinical workflows, new research finds. Los Angeles and Redwood Shores, CA—Jul 9, 2020 The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC (“Ellison Institute”) and Oracle reveal a promising two-step technique to train a high-confidence predictive algorithm for enhanced cancer diagnostics. The study uses novel tissue “fingerprints”—discriminating microscopic hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) histologic features—of tumors paired with correct diagnoses to...

Press Release Oracle Announces Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer Industry’s first fully managed cloud region brings 100% of Oracle’s public cloud services, including Oracle Autonomous Database and Cloud applications, to customer datacenters Pricing starts at only $500K per month, a small fraction of what customers would have to pay for a one-off region from other cloud providers Customers include Nomura Research Institute (NRI) in Japan and Oman Information and Communications Technology Group Redwood Shores, Calif.—Jul 8, 2020 Driven by strong customer demand, Oracle today announced Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, the industry’s first fully-managed cloud region that brings all of Oracle’s second-generation cloud services, including Autonomous Database and...