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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist, including 18 years at InformationWeek, who then worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. I’m now a VP with Method Communications. Following is my report from Informatica World 2024 in Las Vegas. Good AI requires good data. Sounds simple, but few organizations can do it.
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Hello again everyone, and a special welcome to our many new subscribers! This is my first blog post in a while, so a few things to catch up on…I’ve been on the road the past few weeks. I traveled to San Francisco to visit my son (a software engineer), and then to the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon to hike and visit.
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who went on to work in strategic communications at Oracle, IBM, MongoDB, and now Method Communications. If you received this newsletter, you’re a subscriber (thank you!) or someone forwarded it to you. Subscriptions are free. Another day, another vector database. The tech industry is being taken over by vector databases—an arcane technology even in the complex world of database software.
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report! I’m John Foley, a tech writer and long-time journalist who formerly worked at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. If you received this newsletter, you’re a subscriber (thank you!) or someone forwarded it to you. Subscriptions are free. Those are the words of Gartner analyst Adam Ronthal when he revealed that AWS had passed Microsoft to become the database market share leader. You may have missed that bit of news a few weeks ago.
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. This blog and free newsletter are independent, unsponsored, and not affiliated with my current role as a VP at Method Communications.
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who went on to work in strategic communications at Oracle, IBM, MongoDB, and now with Method Communications. If you received this newsletter, you’re a subscriber (thank you!) or someone forwarded it to you. Subscriptions are free. Hello again everyone. It’s been a few weeks since my last post. I traveled to San Francisco to visit my son, a software engineer who lives and works in the city.
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. This blog and free newsletter are independent, unsponsored, and not affiliated with my current role as VP with Method Communications. A couple years ago, I predicted that distributed data would become a business-level issue and strategy in more organizations. I believe we’ve reached that point.
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist, including 18 years at InformationWeek, who then worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. I’m now a VP with Method Communications. Oracle came up short of earnings estimates when it reported Q4 FY2024 results, but no one seemed to care.
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist who worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. This blog and free newsletter are independent, unsponsored, and not affiliated with my current role as VP with Method Communications. Is AI the most important technology in the history of IT?
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2 months ago | 
clouddb.substack.com | John Foley
Welcome to the Cloud Database Report. I’m John Foley, a long-time tech journalist, including 18 years at InformationWeek, who then worked in strategic comms at Oracle, IBM, and MongoDB. I invite you to subscribe, share, comment, and connect with me on LinkedIn.It’s been the year of AI in the database market, with LLMs, GenAI, vector embeddings, RAG, copilots, and agents showing up everywhere. No one has been busier than Oracle.