Blockchain Cloud Real-world uses of blockchain are starting to bubble up—examples include bringing more trust and transparency to supply chain transactions or allowing easier intracompany financial transfers. To turn those ideas into action, though, companies need a production-ready blockchain system, one where developers don’t need to worry about the plumbing of IT infrastructure and don’t have to master the implementation details of complex peer-to-peer protocols.
That’s where the new Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service comes in, with the kind of resilience, recoverability, security, and global reach you need before trusting your financial systems, supply chain and customer experience to blockchain. Developers can design a blockchain network, program the business logic, and integrate blockchain with new and existing applications. And Oracle Cloud handles the operation and security. Blockchain is now fully baked, so bring on the enterprise use cases. — Alan Zeichick, Oracle director of strategic communications
Protect Your Most Precious Asset: Data Hackers need to be successful only once to break in, which means that businesses must protect themselves with a database that reacts to attacks autonomously—without your IT team having to orchestrate the response to each attack. Built-in self-securing features are just the beginning of what you need from your cloud platform.
Five Startup CEOs on Their Proven Success Strategies One important piece of advice: Tap partners to fill critical gaps and scale the business. For Interactive Scientific, participation in the Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator program gave the education technology company access to tech partners and potential customers it otherwise wouldn’t have met, “which is raising our profile so that top universities want to work with us,” says the CEO, Dr. Becky Sage. Read more details, and more strategies.
Rakuten Card is one of Japan’s largest credit card companies, but its IT systems were antiquated, making it too hard to add new products or upgrade the customer experience. Rakuten Card’s fix was moving to the cloud—while still keeping the IT systems inside its own data center.
