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Oracle Database Service for Azure Makes Multi-Cloud Real

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the introduction of Oracle Database Services for Azure is empowering Azure customers and applications with full access and integration to OCI database services through unified portals as well as delivering a simpler, more flexible cloud architecture that fulfills customer multi-cloud demands and sharply differentiates the Oracle and Microsoft multi-cloud proposition.

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MongoDB Announces Availability of MongoDB 6.0

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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcement of MongoDB 6.0. As customers look to innovate and garner better insights into vast quantities of data, they need simplified data platforms and an overall improved developer experience. MongoDB is laser focused on delivering the developer data platform and these announcements build on this holistic vision.

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Cloudera Can’t Wait! Apache Iceberg Now Available on Cloudera Data Platform

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the general availability of Apace Iceberg on Cloudera Data Platform advances the ecosystem-wide mission of expanding openness for data lakehouses while handling data anywhere across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, as well as addresses increasing enterprise demand for improving time to value for their data science teams while operating at the speed of innovation while avoiding vendor lock-in.

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Snowflake’s Unistore: The CNN+ of Transactional Application Workloads

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Snowflake’s recent Unistore launch represents a notable divergence from the company’s portfolio development strategy of using a single, specialized platform to address the evolving data warehousing and analytics demands of customers, emulating the converged database portfolio development strategies of rivals such as Oracle who already offer market-proven transactional and analytical capabilities.

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MongoDB World – MongoDB Going All in on the Cloud and Platform

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Futurum senior analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements coming out of the MongoDB World conference in New York this week. During the event MongoDB announced a raft of updates, including updates to Atlas, its core database offering, and launched a Developer Data Platform. It’s clear that MongoDB wants to compete in a crowded marketplace, but can it manage that?

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Pure Storage Expands Portworx Portfolio to Make Kubernetes More Rewarding for Developers

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Pure Storage’s new Portworx portfolio enhancements, including general availability of Portworx Data Services, meet growing developer demand for swift ease of use combined with elastic scaling and automated capabilities as well as strict organizational requirements for data protection and access control across fast-growing Kubernetes development environments.

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Oracle Exadata Cloud Infrastructure X9M Raises the Cloud Database Market Stakes

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Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the Oracle Exadata Cloud X9M debut can enable Oracle to defend and upgrade its vast X9M/X8M customer base through OLTP and Analytics performance and scale advances that maintain existing costs as well as create the differentiation needed to compel rivals such as AWS and Azure to take swift heed of Oracle’s latest cloud database portfolio development and marketing moves.