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ig data is rapidly becoming the key driver in the financial services industry. Big data covers a lot of areas: transactions, customer accounts, vendors, and more. All include individual fields of data, from time stamps to payment amounts to unstructured text fields of additional data (such as call center notes). Consider these numbers: the volume of digital banking users has increased from 20% in 2010 to 61% in 2018—more than tripling in a number of years. At the same time, the number of connect …

Data lakes, such as Oracle Big Data Service, represent an efficient and secure way to store all of your incoming data. Worldwide big data is projected to rise from 2.7 zettabytes to 175 zettabytes by 2025, and this means an exponentially growing number of ones and zeroes, all pouring in from an increasing number of data sources. Unlike data warehouses, which require structured and processed data, data lakes act as a single repository for raw data across numerous sources.What do you get when you …

If you are considering deploying, or looking at ways to optimize performance, scalability, and total cost of ownership of running Oracle Database, Why Oracle Database runs best on Oracle Linux is well worth a read. This technical brief explains what makes Oracle Linux the best choice for a cloud-ready, cost-effective, and high-performance operating environment when modernizing infrastructure or consolidating Oracle Database instances.When you deploy Oracle Database on Oracle Linux, you can have …

Hackers love endpoints—those end-user devices that connect to your enterprise network. With a little ingenuity, bad actors (outside or inside your organization) can access sensitive data through employees’ laptops and smartphones, the office security cameras, printers, and a host of other entry points.Endpoint security protects your enterprise resources by safeguarding these end-user devices from breach or physical theft. But many organizations are asking how cloud computing fits into the equati …

No matter what you’re doing on your Mac, whether you’re working or streaming your favorite TV show, you’re most likely using the modifier keys on your keyboard. Those are keys like Command and Option, which are arguably the most important keys on your keyboard, because they can perform shortcuts that are impossible with only a single key.The most basic and common examples are copy (Command-C) and paste (Command-V), but these keyboard shortcuts also allow you to do more complicated things like fo …