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Oracle And NIH Networks Collaborate To Help End HIV

The HIV Vaccine Trials Network, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the NIH, today launched a new HIV awareness campaign and the Red Ribbon Registry with the goal of helping end HIV. Built by Oracle, the unique cloud-based registry makes it easy for anyone to volunteer to be considered for an HIV clinical study—getting us one step closer to a cure. To learn more or volunteer for an HIV clinical study visit https://www.helpendhiv.org/ The registry expands on Oracle’s work with the NIH and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Oracle developed the COVID-19…

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How Tens Of Thousands Of Japanese Found Their Way To COVID-19 Vaccination Centers With The Help Of Navagis And Google Maps Platform

Editor’s Note: David Moore, Founder and CEO of Navagis, shares his story of teaming up with the Google Maps Platform team to help people across Japan get vaccinated amid COVID-19 pandemic. The roots of Navagis go back to Hurricane Katrina, when I led an Army Corps of Engineers team that deployed 3D mapping technologies with Google Earth to respond to critical needs on the U.S. Gulf Coast. As a Google Cloud Premier Partner we work across various industries and organizational types to solve location intelligence challenges with our software solutions. The experience taught me how powerful mapping insights can be in protecting…

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Four Ways States Use Digital Tools To Deliver Critical Services

Government leaders are reimagining the way they serve communities in the new digital era. They’ve traded manual, paper-based processes and in-person services for digitized, flexible solutions that offer better constituent experiences and improve operations. Google Cloud is working with SpringML to help public sector agencies address four pandemic-driven challenges with digital solutions. Keeping the World Moving: Digital Immunization Pass The speed and accuracy in processing COVID-19 documents is important to many organizations, including transportation authorities, hospitals, entertainment venues, educational institutions, fitness centers, and businesses of all sizes. Unlike paper, digital immunization credentials are easy to access and difficult to forge.…

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IBM Bolsters Investments in CEE, Extends Client Engineering In Prague, Warsaw And Moscow

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the expansion of its Client Engineering team in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for customers and business partners. Located in Prague, Warsaw and Moscow, IBM Client Engineering fosters innovation in the region by providing an enhanced customer experience, focused on co-creation, technical eminence, and speed. IBM Client Engineering brings together teams of designers, technical developers, solution architects, data scientists, security experts, dev ops experts and more. They work side-by-side with clients to bring IBM Technologies and Services to life solving critical business challenges at speed – all before a contract is even signed. In CEE, a…

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Salesforce Launches Safety Cloud To Help Businesses And Communities Get Together Safely

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in CRM, today announced Safety Cloud to help people get together safely. Building on Salesforce’s own event and workplace experience — and expanding on existing health and safety innovations announced in December — Safety Cloud helps businesses and communities better manage testing, health and entry protocols to create safer in-person experiences at events and in the workplace. Data shows that getting people together safely and in-person is imperative to building and maintaining culture, employee retention and satisfaction, and business growth. In a recent Salesforce employee survey, 77% of employees said they want to get together in-person…

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Making Extreme Programming Work For Remote Teams

I am a software engineer and have been working on extreme programming (XP) teams since 2015. Currently, I work within VMware Tanzu Labs, which has a long history of practicing XP and teaching it to clients. The COVID-19 pandemic is massively affecting how teams practice XP by forcing practitioners to operate in a remote-first world, usually from home. And many teams won’t return to full-time in-person work when the pandemic ends. While this creates new challenges, teams can still do effective XP by adapting their processes to better accommodate remote teams. What is extreme programming? If you’re not familiar with XP,…

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Empowering DevOps To Foster Customer Loyalty In Modern Retail With MongoDB Atlas On Google Cloud

Consumer demands are becoming more complex, driven by high expectations for personalized experiences that strike the right chord at the perfect time. One study from McKinsey found that nearly three-quarters of consumers demand personalization when interacting with retailers. Retailers old and new of any size must embrace the challenges head on and learn to capture customer loyalty. While each business has a unique modernization journey, all of them share something in common: Effective approaches to DevOps and data analytics underpin their success. Established retailers sometimes struggle to change previous retail models into the much more intimate, personalized, and real-time retail experiences that…

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Vodafone Provides Anonymized Mobile Phone Signal Data To Help Monitor The Spread Of COVID-19 And Inform Early Warning Systems For New Outbreaks

n this blog post I highlight how you can accelerate your application modernization journey by taking advantage of Anthos on bare metal’s support for running on OpenStack. I also introduce the recently published “Deploy Anthos on bare metal on OpenStack” and “Configure the OpenStack Cloud Provider for Kubernetes” guides. I point to different starting points of these guides depending on expertise and OpenStack environment, so you can leverage it. What is OpenStack? OpenStack is an open source platform that enables you to manage large pools of compute, storage and networking resources. It provides you a uniform set of APIs and an…

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Pandemic-Driven Changes In Pharma Here To Stay As New Clinical Trial Models Take Hold

COVID-19 physical distancing requirements forced change in how traditional clinical trials were conducted and a new Informa Pharma and Oracle study shows the industry is not looking back. Of the 251 people surveyed, 84% implemented alternative tactics to continue their existing clinical trials and/or start new trials during the pandemic. Of those respondents, 82% said these approaches had positively impacted their clinical trials overall. Looking to the future, 97% indicated their organization would continue using at least one of these new methods moving forward, leading with remote monitoring and video (eHealth) visits. “At the onset of the pandemic, the industry had to…

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Cloud Migration Plans Surge Despite Security Concerns

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company™, has found there has been a significant year-on-year leap in companies planning to move business-critical applications to the cloud, despite cybersecurity concerns. The need to remain competitive and cater to increased user demands has prompted a 15% jump to 37% of companies saying they plan to move business-critical applications to the cloud in 2020-21, compared to the previous year. As digital leaders build robust digital infrastructures to ensure future success, it is estimated that almost half (47%) of their IT infrastructure globally is now on the cloud, despite ongoing concerns over cloud security. These…

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