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An overview of Oracle's different Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and data science solutions available on Oracle Cloud. If you are new to this website, it is a learning and sharing platform where we will learn publicly. Before I cover today's show schedule, let me admit that procrastination is sometimes very dangerous, as I could not record/host the podcast for the last 4 months. It wasn't easy to have a work-life balance due to the two factors. First, as I am doing MSc in AI and the previous 4-5 months were crucial to complete the key subjects, now I am on the last topic of robotics, which will be completed very soon. And 2nd factor was that I was dedicating a lot of my time to office work, where I worked with several EMEA-based customers and helped them migrate on-premise workloads to the Oracle cloud. On the procrastination, James clear’s book ‘Atomic habit’ and specifically the article “Procrastination: A Scientific Guide on How to Stop Procrastinating” has helped me to come out of the phas

Project management is changing how emerging technologies are becoming on-board, and complex business transformations are happening in different industries. All this requires new approaches and methodologies. In this podcast, I discussed the role of artificial intelligence in project management, how we can get ready with the future of project management, and what it looks like. What are the traits someone needs to have? What is impacting the current project management and the challenges being faced? You will also learn why project management professionals & executives need to understand the need to transition to an AI-powered approach in project management. You will also learn the vital steps for effective collaboration between intelligent technology and project professionals. The organization is collecting enormous amounts of data and how the collected data can help have informed decisions for the project management. You will get the answers to 4 key areas: What are the current challenges with p

The cloud adoption framework of several cloud vendors helps cloud architects, IT professionals, and decision-makers have a set of protocols, best practices, and tools for the journey to the cloud. Each cloud vendor has divided the adoption framework into different phases, and in this session, I will walk you through the high-level stages of each cloud adoption framework. The first session on this topic is covered in session number 99 with the title “Cloud Adoption Framework“. In this session, I will cover the Cloud Adoption framework of Oracle, Google Cloud, AWS, IBM Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud. You’ll Learn: Different Cloud Adoption Frameworks: Different Phases of Cloud Adoption Framework of different Cloud Vendors? Resources: 99 – Cloud Adoption Framework Oracle Cloud Adoption Framework AWS CAP Microsoft Azure CAP IBM Cloud Cloud Adoption Google Cloud Adoption Framework Alibaba Cloud Migration Methodology Open Data Center Alliance Cloud Adoption Framework Unified Cloud Computing Adoption Framework during 

Cloud Adoption Framework is a set of best practices, tools, and guides that most public cloud vendors publish. The idea behind these cloud adoption frameworks is to assist organizations to embrace public cloud securely, efficiently and faster. The cloud adoption framework comprises each phase of cloud acceptance, from planning to living in the cloud. It provides a very well-tested checklist and steps to choose the right path for cloud migration and the right tools to help reduce potential security, governance, and budget problems. The good thing about the cloud adoption framework is that it covers technological, people, processes and business aspects. Therefore, it helps to align business strategies with the culture, business and technology inspirations to achieve the business benefits. Cloud growth The cloud adoption framework is your guide to making the most of your cloud investment. Most organizations are adopting the cloud as per the IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing study reveals that 92% of the organiza

A deepfake refers to a specific kind of media or photo where a person in an image or video is transacted with another person however it will look like the original person in an image or video. To make a deep fake video, a creator swaps one person’s face and replaces it with another, using a deep learning algorithm generative adversarial networks (GAN). A formal definition as per Wikipedia: Deepfakes are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness. While the act of faking content is not new, deepfakes leverage powerful techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence to manipulate or generate visual and audio content with a high potential to deceive. The main machine learning methods used to create deepfakes are based on deep learning and involve training generative neural network architectures, such as autoencoders or generative adversarial networks (GANs) – Source: Wikipedia Today’s Guest Ilke Demir, Research Scientist at Int

Cloud migration is challenging, cumbersome, and risky for traditional organizations relying on in-house custom-built systems to support achieving revenue from years on years. Today I will be discussing a wide variety of challenges organizations are facing while planning for cloud migration. These typical challenges are talks of every board room and the agenda of the meetings. However, there is no doubt that workloads migration to the cloud is helping organizations to reduce operating costs and build integrated, automated IT infrastructure. Some Facts on Public Cloud: The global public cloud computing market is continuing to grow, and according to the Statista report of August 4, 2021, it will $482 billion in 2022. IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing study reveals that 92% of the organizations are somewhat in the cloud. According to the worldwide enterprise cloud strategy 2017-2020 report by Statista, 82% of the respondent reported that they had deployed hybrid cloud strategy in their organizations. Gartner’s global f

It is 2nd part of the session on CIS Benchmarks and controls for Cloud. The Center for Internet Security is a nonprofit organization with the mission to 'identify, develop, validate, promote, and sustain best practice solutions for cyber defense.’ Experts and IT professionals from different governments, institutes, and businesses across the globe are participating and finalizing the controls based on the consensus decision-making model. Now let us link this to why it is essential for every one of us and every organization. I have got a chance to read the article on data breaches affecting millions of users and some of the biggest breaches in recent times published by CSOonline with the title “The 15 biggest data breaches of the 21st century.” CIS Benchmarks The CIS Controls consists of a recommended best practices to secure systems and devices, and CIS Benchmarks are rules for hardening specific operating systems, middleware, software applications, and network devices. The CIS Controls and the CIS Be

The Center for Internet Security is a nonprofit organization with the mission to 'identify, develop, validate, promote, and sustain best practice solutions for cyber defense.’ Experts and IT professionals from different governments, institutes, and businesses across the globe are participating and finalizing the controls based on the consensus decision-making model. Now let us link this to why it is essential for every one of us and every organization. I have got a chance to read the article on data breaches affecting millions of users and some of the biggest breaches in recent times published by CSOonline with the title “The 15 biggest data breaches of the 21st century.” CIS Benchmarks The CIS Controls consists of a recommended best practices to secure systems and devices, and CIS Benchmarks are rules for hardening specific operating systems, middleware, software applications, and network devices. The CIS Controls and the CIS Benchmarks are developed using a consensus-based approach by communities o

A cloud migration strategy is a plan which any organization develops to move its systems and applications from on-premises architecture to the cloud.  Not all applications and systems benefit from running on the cloud; that’s why you must indorse the most efficient way to work on it and migrate applications. Therefore, a systematic, documented strategy is essential. Any strategy needs to start from some barefoot, and then it builds on it. Similarly, the vital first step to creating a migration strategy is getting to know what you have? What are the collections of applications, systems, etc.? Once you have documented existing applications, you need to refer to the most common migration strategies. Gartner is calling 5R; some vendors mentioned as 6Rs or 7Rs. (These strategies are: refactor, replatform, repurchase, rehost, relocate, retain, and retire) Your organization will fall in these options, and you need to choose based on the workload discovery/assessment. Rehost refactor revise rebuild replace

Implementing cloud or migration to cloud is challenging. Organizations that have built thousands of applications over the past two to three decades require re-architecting to run efficiently, securely, and resiliently in the cloud. Your next steps are to perform a cloud migration assessment based on your cloud strategy and business objectives. It will help identify the right migration pattern and cloud architecture required to go for the workload. Today we will talk about three vital areas Cloud migration scenario / strategies Cloud migration approach - Take a Workload-centric Approach Cloud migration assessment method You could have different business goals to introduce digital products and services to market faster. You want to reduce your technical debt or replace on-premises infrastructure due to the end of life. All these reasons are leading you to migrate to the cloud. However, you need to decide and call which application/system is the right candidate for cloud migration. You need to have a clear und

Tech Talk on Cloud Security Posture Management with John Grange Detecting and preventing the misconfigurations and threats that lead to data breaches and compliance violations in your multi-cloud environments. For organizations embarking on a multi-cloud strategy, cloud security posture management (CSPM) helps them secure multiple cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. Today’s Guest John Grange, CTO of Ops Compass How the journey so far starting from pure data center guy, who has started from hosting provider to a solution for the cloud security management. Get to know about John’s favorite books and what is essential for a beginner startup owner to focus. Website: opscompass.com References: Ops Compass Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security 2020

Workload migration to Cloud has become integral to IT optimization and driving business forward with the increased espousal of cloud technologies. Moving to the cloud enables firms to be more agile, remove inefficiencies and provide required customer, employee experiences. Migration of on-premise enterprise workload to the public cloud has reached the situation of being considered a ‘best practice’. These workload migrations still giving challenges to the traditionally run IT organizations as everything on-premises. It’s no longer moving to the cloud is just selecting your favorite cloud provider, and then magic will be reviled. You and your organization have to face the challenge of making the right choices: Which enterprise workload needs to be migrated to the cloud? What skills required to run the cloud? How will you build a team today & in the future? What services will be available when businesses need them? Some critical factors have to be kept aligned or on top of the list when deciding on the ar

How to deploy a server/instance on the newly released Arm Ampere AI compute shape in Oracle OCI. In this session, we will summarize what we have learned from the last seven sessions on the basics of OCI and you will see how those basics concepts are helping us create a new virtual machine. Two days back, Oracle has announced the release of Arm Based computing on the OCI; with this, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers Ampere Altra processors with an 80-core Arm server. The Arm is at the ‘heart’ of mobile gaming, and the Arm architecture belongs to ‘reduced instruction set computing (RISC)’ architectures for computer processors. Some of the critical features of this architecture are to provide predictable performance, high scalability, and power efficiency. ARM makes 32-bit and 64-bit RISC multi-core processors. RISC processors are designed to perform a smaller number of types of computer instructions so that they can operate at a higher speed, performing more millions of instructions per second (MIPS).  B

In this session part 7, we will cover three topics: How to manage the virtual network interface cards (VNICs) in a virtual cloud network (VCN). How your instances are assigned private and public IP addresses, and the use of DNS within your cloud network. How to manage the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) options in a virtual cloud network (VCN). The Journey started from the first station of networking to learn the basics of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In the second station of our journey to learn Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). We will cover different gateways available in the VCN like: Network address translation (NAT Gateway), Service Gateway, Internet Gateway, Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG), Local Peering Gateway (LPG), and Remote Peering Gateway (RPG). When you will arrive at the third station of our journey, to learn OCI, you will get the basics of default components of VCN, including the below three-component comes by default with the Virtual Cloud Network on OCI. Default 

In this session, how to secure your cloud network as part of the Networking service covers two virtual firewall features to control traffic at the packet level a-Network security groups b-Security lists and to configure VCN flow logs to get details about the traffic that passes through your VCN. It is part 6 of our series to learn the basics of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In part 5 & 6, we have covered key 5 areas: Access controls Security Rules Network security groups Security Lists VCN Flow logs Oracle OCI - How to Secure Your Network - Part 5 (otechtalks.tv)

How to secure your cloud network and compute instances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; you will be using private subnets, Security rules, Firewall rules, Gateways and route tables, IAM policies, and Security zones. we will also compare the Security Lists and Network Security Groups. what are the top 5 best practices to be followed for the Security Rules that are also covered in this session?

Networking scenarios in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure depend on your network design and your application requirements, how you want to set up. In this session, you will get the three networking choices, which will give you a basic understanding and clarity on the different components and how you can choose each of them while designing it.. Before you go to today’s topic, I want to share with you the mindset of a ‘lifelong learner.’ Lifelong learning is the “ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated” pursuit of knowledge for personal or professional reasons. Therefore, it enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, personal development, self-sustainability, and competitiveness, and employability. So you can summarize the “self-started education focuses on personal development is a lifelong learning.”

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure networking overview will be covered in this session. It is in continuation of the series of sessions, We have started to cover the basics of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Networking includes Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), subnets, and other components of the networking. This episode will cover the default components of VCN, below three-component comes by default with the Virtual Cloud Network on OCI. Default route table, with no route rules Default security list, with default security rules Default set of DHCP options, with default values

Oracle cloud infrastructure networking overview is the topic of our session. We have started to cover the basics of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Networking includes Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), subnets, and other components of the networking. In this second station of our journey to learn Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). We will cover different gateways available in the VCN like: Network address translation (NAT Gateway), Service Gateway, Internet Gateway, Dynamic Routing Gateway (DRG), Local Peering Gateway (LPG), and Remote Peering Gateway (RPG).

What are the fundamental concepts of Oracle cloud infrastructure of networking is the topic of today. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Networking includes Virtual Cloud Network (VCN), subnets, and other components of the networking. Today’s session number is 85. However, today we will start new audio series to learn the Essentials of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Over the past few years, what I thought was whenever I am going to the gym or a jogging or a long drive for meetings, I always thought to listen something which will give a new fruit of thought, usually I was listening to podcasts that’s how it led me to start this podcast back in early 2015.