Daily Archives: June 23, 2021

Oracle to customers: Spend more on cloud, save on support

In its ongoing push for the cloud, Oracle is willing to cut CIOs a deal, offering to hand back up to one-third of new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) spend to existing customers as part of a program it calls “Oracle Support Rewards.” Naturally, there are caveats: The discount cannot exceed a customer’s spend on Oracle…

Casey's General Stores IT delivers business outcomes in product management shift

Adrian Butler grew up in a farm community of no more than 100 people, so when he became CIO of Casey’s General Stores, a $9 billion convenience store chain with a large rural presence, the job had real meaning for him. “Casey’s opened its first store in Boone, Iowa in 1968,” says Butler. “In many…