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Oracle Announces Opening of Information Assurance CenterFormer CIA Executive Will Head Virginia-Based Facility Focused on Security, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery SolutionsREDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Nov. 7 / -- ( http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?1070499 ) Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - news), the world's largest enterprise software company, today announced the opening of the Oracle Information Assurance Center at its Reston, Va., offices. The center will educate customers on prevention, detection, crisis management and consequence management, and provide a test bed for leading-edge security, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.Oracle has hired former top CIA official David Carey to head the new center, which will operate in a physical and virtual environment. Carey served as CIA Executive Director -- often referred to as the chief operating official and No. 3 position at the agency -- before his retirement in September. Carey, who has 32 years of analytic, operational and managerial experience in intelligence and security issues, is now Oracle's vice president of information assurance. ``Oracle is the undisputed leader in providing secure enterprise software solutions to government and business, and we are proud to open this center to address the needs of our customers and partners,'' said Tim Hoechst, senior vice president of technology for Oracle Service Industries. ``We provide not only security, but also provide for secure collaboration within an organization and between organizations. There are very few companies that have the technology, the history and the people to really assist in these areas at this time.'' Planning for the center began more than six months ago, with a focus on commercial enterprises and public sector agencies in industries including government, healthcare, financial services and telecommunications. The center enables customers and partners to test technology, including solutions that mitigate vulnerability to system failure and facilitate response to potential emergencies and threats. Oracle's emergency preparedness solutions include infrastructure survivability, information security, geographic information management, mobile data access and information discovery. Oracle has its roots in the government, with its name being derived from its first project for the intelligence community, resulting in Oracle offering the first commercial SQL relational database management system in 1979. Today, Oracle is synonymous with scalability, reliability and security. In an era when security is at the forefront of the minds of citizens and politicians alike, Oracle has met more independent worldwide government security criteria than any other database platform in the world. About Oracle Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more information about Oracle visit our website at www.oracle.com. OracleMobile 415/401-4000 jmorgan@tenthdimension.com top of page |
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