Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 49 | Page 9

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Routed achieves VMware Principal Partner status

which partners can engage with the company and their customers .
Andrew Cruise , Managing Director , Routed , said the Principal Partner status is hugely significant and is testament to Routed ’ s continuous growth year after year , not only via milestone verifications , but also by increasing in size , relevance and competency . “ We are thrilled to reach Principal Partner status and look forward to delivering our skills and expertise within the cloud sector .”

Routed , a local vendor neutral cloud infrastructure provider , has announced that it has achieved VMware Principal Partner status as a cloud provider .

The Principal Partner status as a cloud provider reflects Routed ’ s levels of competency achieved to date , revenue and overall presence in the VMware ecosystem .
According to VMware , the Principal Partner status was recently announced within its VMware Partner Connect programme and offers a simplified and flexible mechanism by
“ Routed has made a significant contribution to the development and advancement of the VMware cloud services and offerings in the local market ,” stated Dave Funnell , Cloud Provider Manager , VMware Sub- Saharan Africa . “ Their continual investment into upskilling their team , their knowledge of the VMware cloud solutions and their continued growth is testament to their commitment to driving VMware as the cloud solution of choice .”

Oracle extends database leadership with Oracle Database 21c

IT giant Oracle has announced that Oracle Database 21c , the latest version of its converged database , is available on Oracle Cloud , including the Always Free tier of Oracle Autonomous Database .

Oracle Database 21c contains more than 200 new innovations , including immutable Blockchain tables , in-database JavaScript , native JSON binary data type , AutoML for in-database Machine Learning ( ML ) and persistent memory store , as well as enhancements for in-memory , graph processing performance , sharing , multitenant and security .
“ Oracle Database 21c continues our strategy of delivering the world ’ s most powerful converged database engine ,” said Andrew Mendelsohn , Executive Vice President , Database Server Technologies , Oracle .
“ It provides leading JSON document processing performance . It provides breakthrough operational database performance with Intel Optane Persistent Memory support .
“ It provides industry-leading analytic database capabilities with new self-managing in-memory column store , highest performance graph processing and AutoML for simplest Machine Learning model development .”
In addition , Mendelsohn added that it provides immutable Blockchain tables for tamperproof SQL tables . “ Competing vendors require separate JSON document , operational , analytic , graph , ML , Blockchain databases and services to support these capabilities .
Oracle ’ s converged database approach makes developers far more productive when building new applications , and makes it easy to later evolve applications to meet new business requirements ,” he said .
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