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Oracle's infrastructure-as-a-service cloud platform, providing compute, storage, and GPU capacity in competition with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Oracle University made the OCI Architect Associate and Foundations exams permanently free on MyLearn, a dev.to walkthrough reports. Professional-level courses and labs stay behind a paid annual subscription.
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Oracle will offer NetApp's Ontap storage as a native OCI service within 12 months, NetApp's fourth hyperscaler deal after Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. A storage team planning an Oracle move this quarter gets familiar Ontap tooling, on a launch date neither company has fixed.
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Oracle says it will absorb about $300 million in rising Point Beach nuclear power costs for more than 1 million Wisconsin utility customers. The pledge needs state regulators' approval and would make Oracle a party to the plant's power deal while it builds a data center in Port Washington.
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Almost all of Oracle's near-30% revenue growth came from the single segment that rents AI servers. The buildout behind it runs on debt, and the backlog it feeds is nearly half one customer's contract.
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The $375m Series C priced Positron at $3.5bn before the money, and the up-to-$500m follow-on has to be sitting at $4.5bn pre-money to reach the $5bn headline, which only holds if every dollar of it is drawn.
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Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled to $7.4bn and the contracted backlog reached $664bn, while the $28.5bn Oracle put into capacity in three months turned a record $23.1bn of operating cash flow into free cash flow of negative $5.4bn.
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A loan quoted below par is the only continuously updated figure anyone has on Oracle's quarter-built New Mexico AI campus, and whether it prices the buildings or the tenant's rating decides how much a stall report matters.
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One Oracle micro VM held Pi-hole, the exit node and the tailnet's only resolver. When its node key came due at 180 days, both clients lost name resolution and every admin path into the box was already closed.
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NVIDIA's open source Topograph discovers cluster topology from five named clouds or from ibnetdiscover on-premises, then republishes it as node labels, Slurm config or Slinky ConfigMaps whenever a watched part of the cluster changes.
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Michael Burry's latest Substack post puts Oracle's off-balance-sheet data centre lease commitments at $261bn, which is 2.9 times the revenue the company has guided for the full year. He is short the stock.
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In a dev.to write-up, Jorge RN traces the chain from a workload's own identity to an ephemeral OCI session token, where the authorization decision reads claims such as repository, workflow and branch.
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Oracle says ten wind projects will put more than 1.7GW onto the ERCOT grid for its Abilene campus. Only two of the agreements carry a megawatt figure, and the larger of them is a virtual PPA over three farms already operating.
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Infrastructure revenue grew 121% to $7.4 billion in the quarter and Oracle delivered 850MW of new datacenter capacity, but a buyer negotiating multi-year AI capacity has to price the $664 billion Oracle has already contracted.
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Nvidia reported $96.2 billion of revenue at 75% gross margins and guided the next quarter to $108.0 billion while assuming nothing from China Data Center compute, with gross margin slipping to 74%.
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Positron says the money covers a TSMC N3P tapeout by the end of 2026, a new 2MW engineering data center and a production ramp in the second half of 2027. The larger of the round's two tranches is described as up to $500 million.
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Larry Ellison has skipped Oracle's earnings calls this year and is off next month's keynote billing. The product his successors have to explain is separated EU regions and borrowed data centre capacity.
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Oracle spent $28bn on construction and equipment last quarter, which is $5bn more than a record quarter of cash generation. Customers renewing GPU capacity into 97.9 percent utilisation are paying about 20 percent more.
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The $875 million round prices an inference chip whose performance figures come from cycle-accurate simulations and whose production date has moved from early 2027 into the second half. The system Positron ships today runs on HBM.
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The $11.36bn of customer prepayments turned what would have been roughly $16.8bn of burn into a $5.40bn shortfall, and it moves the funding question from Oracle's balance sheet to the credit of the customers writing the cheques.
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Oracle's first fiscal quarter turned 30% revenue growth into a 60% jump in net income, and the same three months consumed more cash in capital investment than the company collected in sales.
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