With 400,000 customers in 145 countries, more than 132,000 employees and $38.2B in revenue (FY15 data), Oracle is a giant of modern IT. To maintain its forefront position, Oracle is increasingly investing in R&D (more than $39B invested since 2004); Oracle Labs is a division that focuses on exploring higher risk and long term projects and ideas. The mission of Oracle Labs is to Identify, explore, and transfer new technologies that have the potential to substantially improve Oracle's business.
Nowadays, these new technologies span from novel hardware architectures that strive to leverage the "scale-out" computing paradigm to all the software stack to support high-level interfaces to powerful analytics tools, enabling data scientists to extract highly valuable information from massive datasets.
With 9 location scattered around the globe and hundreds of researchers, Oracle Labs is developing these new technologies to address two fundamental and related issues that are conspiring to change the fabric of data processing: the need for power-efficient hardware and the need for parallel software.
In this talk, I will give an overview of some of the research we are working on at Oracle Labs and point out some research questions that we will be addressing in the next months and years.