Each year, Brendan Tierney’s students at Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) take a course where they use technology to solve real-world problems for different charities.
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Last year, one group of students decided to work with a hospital in Dublin that treats people with mental and physical disabilities. After one meeting with staff and patients, the students realized they needed a different technical environment in order to make progress on their project.
Tierney, who is a lecturer at TU Dublin, worked closely with them and saw a way to assist. “I said, ‘You need a database environment and a couple of other things,’” he recalls. “And within five minutes I had everyone working in Oracle Autonomous Database.”
What’s an autonomous database? It’s Oracle’s cloud-based database that uses designed to reduce, or in some cases eliminate, the human labor associated with tasks such as database tuning, security patching, software updates, data backups, and other routine efforts. Introduced in 2018, this family of cloud services frees database administrators and other users to do more valuable work.
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To help remove as many barriers as possible for professors and students to realize the benefits of the cloud, Oracle has launched Oracle
Tierney applauds this move, noting that it provides assurances to professors that the cloud database they start using in their classrooms will be with them for the long haul. For students, he adds, it means that they’re learning on the best database in the marketplace—and students, whether or not they’re using Oracle
In addition, Oracle Academy institutional member educators and their students will be able to access these cloud services and free credits through a new Oracle Academy
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