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May 12, 2022
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 phase and be back with the podcast 😊

Let's dive into today’s topic. Oracle has solutions that broadly cover three areas from the product's point of view. We will also talk about some of the use cases along with these products.

1-Artificial intelligence services, 2- Machine learning services and 3- AI apps for SaaS services

1-Artificial intelligence services deliver pre-trained models that can also be custom trained to improve model quality and enable organizations to use the AI services.

2-Machine learning services enable organizations to build, manage and deploy machine learning models with the different open source frameworks or they can use in-database machine learning capabilities.

3-AI apps for SaaS services provide organizations with capabilities in pre-integrated and fully functional AI functionalities in the Software as a Services (SaaS) model. These services are primarily part of the Oracle Cloud Applications. It uses deep semantic parsing with natural language processing (NLP), natural language understanding (NLU), and custom algorithms to understand common conversations to derive real intent and context. In addition, users can communicate with the business application using voice commands capabilities available in the digital assistant offered by Oracle’s Voice, it is not relying on any third party offerings.

You’ll Learn:

Different offerings for AI, ML and Data Science from Oracle Cloud:

Resources:

Jun 6, 2021

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 providerand 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 are 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 architecture. I will mention what points I keep in mind while suggesting an architecture of enterprise workload migration.

You’ll Learn:

Three key areas to assist you in getting started to migrate workload to the cloud

  • Appoint the workload migration Architect Role
  • Identification of the right workload/applications
  • Correct data of the workload

https://www.otechtalks.tv/workload-migration-to-cloud-getting-started/

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May 30, 2021

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).  By stripping out unneeded instructions and optimizing pathways, RISC processors provide outstanding performance at a fraction of the power demand of CISC (complex instruction set computing) devices.

I have seen another article written on how to deploy Minecraft on the Cloud. So these two things coincided, and I thought, let me try and create my own Minecraft server on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run an Arm-based workload. All the steps are recorded in the video below, and it took me just twenty minutes to complete the entire process. I am looking forward to deploying enterprise workload to Arm-based instances.

So I thought, let me try and create my own Minecraft server on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. All the processes is recorded in the video below, and it took me just twenty minutes to complete the entire process. I am looking forward to playing this weekend game installed on the OCI server 

You’ll Learn:

Practical work to deploy a server on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the audio course – part – 8 (Practical Work)

  1. Basics of the Oracle Compute service
  2. Different types of compute shapes
  3. Build and deploy a server on ARM Ampere A1 compute

https://www.otechtalks.tv/deploy-a-server-on-the-oci-arm-ampere-a1-compute-part-8/

 

May 23, 2021

In this session part 7, we will cover three topics:

  1. How to manage the virtual network interface cards (VNICs) in a virtual cloud network (VCN).
  2. How your instances are assigned private and public IP addresses, and the use of DNS within your cloud network.
  3. 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 route table, with no route rules
  • Default security list, with default security rules
  • A default set of DHCP options, with default values

In the fourth station of our journey, we will cover the three different scenarios, public subnet, Private Subnet with a VPN, and Public and Private Subnets with a VPN.

In the fifth and sixth station of the journey to learn the basics of OC we have covered below areas:

  1. Access controls
  2. Security Rules
  3. Network security groups
  4. Security Lists
  5. VCN Flow logs

May 16, 2021

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:

  1. Access controls
  2. Security Rules
  3. Network security groups
  4. Security Lists
  5. VCN Flow logs

Oracle OCI - How to Secure Your Network - Part 5 (otechtalks.tv)

May 9, 2021

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?

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