This week: Fighting disease in Africa. Making supercomputing power more widely available. Moving beyond tech expertise to help solve business problems. Plus: Why startups should partner with an established technology platform.
“There’s a possibility of Africa leaping ahead. There’s the opportunity for a great leap forward, if countries want to take it, to use technology not just for health, but to digitize the economy.”
The Tony Blair Institute is teaming with Oracle to fight disease outbreaks in Africa, leveraging a cloud-based system that speeds data sharing to improve public health.
Companies and researchers are accessing new heights of computing power—and making new discoveries—thanks to high-performance computing (HPC) in public clouds.
It takes more than technology for Oracle to help businesses meet their customer service goals—it takes knowledge of specific industry needs. Here’s how Oracle plans to combine the two elements.
The first-mover advantage doesn’t last—just ask Yahoo, Lycos, Friendster, and Myspace. Companies that come late to market can still win. That, and other lessons from Oracle’s Jason Williamson, based on his experience in the startup world.
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