Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
EVERYDAY LIFE WITH ORACLE CLOUD SERVICES THE NEW NORMAL WITH JEFF ERICKSON ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 14 Cloud and the User Group IOUG members go beyond presentations to deliver experience at COLLABORATE 17 People join Oracle user groups and attend conferences to stay on top of the technology that runs their businesses At COLLABORATE 17 members of the Independent Oracle Users Group IOUG Cloud Computing Special Interest Group SIG led the Cloud Experience all day session Attendees brought their own laptops and signed in to Oracle Cloud trial accounts and then fellow user group members guided them through using Oracle Cloud services to set up OS secure authentication create storage containers and back up data to Oracle Cloud and recover it to on premises servers Participants also learned new ways to leverage cloud based infrastructure and monitor both infrastructure and user experience Oracle Magazine spoke to three Cloud Experience session leaders about their hands on experience with Oracle Cloud services and what they learned Tariq Farooq ORACLE ACE DIRECTOR In less than 30 minutes we spun up an entire cloud service instance Its nothing short of a revolution Its point click click you provision services and its ready to go That process used to take weeks or months Erik Benner ORACLE ACE DIRECTOR Oracle PaaS platform as a service provides different components As an application developer you can combine them to make a complete application and rapidly deploy it to your users Kai Yu ORACLE ACE DIRECTOR Previously developers starting a project had to prepare hardware and software and get it all to work together With Oracle Cloud PaaS you have the toolbox as well as the environment so you can focus on new ideas
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