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New Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences to be Powered by AMD EPYC Processors for VMware Users Running Hybrid Cloud Environments

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Futurum analyst Todd R. Weiss examines Oracle’s latest plans to offer all-new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E4 Dense Compute Inferences powered by AMD EPYC processors for hybrid cloud users as Oracle expands its use of AMD EPYC CPUs beyond Oracle’s existing E3 and E4 compute instances.

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Are You Using Virtualization Security Yet?

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If you’re not, you’re already behind. Studies show more than 75 percent of businesses have already been virtualized, and all of these businesses—regardless of size or sector—need a way to help secure their virtualized data resources. In other words, if you’ve already moved to the cloud, but you haven’t launched a coordinated virtualization security program, you have some work to …

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Why Backup is Not Disaster Recovery

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We often read the phrase “Backup and Disaster Recovery” as if the two things were inexorably linked. In a way, they are. But backup is not disaster recovery. And, while you can’t have disaster recovery (DR) without having backups—you can back up your data without having a DR plan in place. Although it might seem cheaper and easier, it’s is …