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After getting star billing, Oracle's Fusion Applications take a supporting role

Posted September 30, 2013 - 4:44 pm

Last week's OpenWorld conference made on thing clear: Oracle remains committed to its next-generation Fusion Applications but massive growth in the product line is probably not around the corner.
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Cisco, Intel push 'trusted geolocation in the cloud'

Posted September 30, 2013 - 3:54 pm

Cisco and Intel say that companies wanting to make use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds should be aware that controls exist for keeping virtual workloads on servers within country borders.
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Cloud Storage and Backup

Posted September 30, 2013 - 2:45 pm

The proliferation of cloud computing options has begun to change the way storage is thought about, procured and used. IT managers and departments need to think through how cloud options might fit into and complement their onsite data infrastructures.
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DCIM: Total Management Insight

Posted September 30, 2013 - 2:45 pm

The pace of change in the data center continues to accelerate. At the same time, organizations are demanding more from IT. The ever-growing stores of data they collect equate to more storage requirements as well as faster and more agile servers
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How do you explain cloud computing to the business?

Posted September 29, 2013 - 10:35 pm

There are now shortage of definitions for cloud computing. Jamal Khawaja offers several, identifying three common characteristics: fully orchestrated; multi-tenant; and ubiquitous access. However, all of these don't mean much to the business side. They are too technical, too difficult to explain.
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Why Office 365 is a better value than Evernote Premium

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:45 pm

Evernote Premium has a number of new features and updates, but at half the cost of an Office 365 subscription the math doesn't add up.
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Why RMS built its cloud environment in Iceland

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:14 pm

While Iceland has long been touted as an ideal spot for a data center, companies have been slow to take advantages of its climate, renewable energy and government incentives. Risk Management Solutions, though, jumped at the chance to put its new cloud environment on the Nordic island.
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Multifactor authentication available on Windows Azure

Posted September 27, 2013 - 2:56 am

Microsoft has announced the general availability of multifactor authentication on its Windows Azure cloud platform.
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Vendor to IT: You're blocking the wrong services

Posted September 26, 2013 - 1:45 pm

Security vendor cites blocking of low-risk cloud services but not higher-risk applications.
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Without these tools, you might hate JavaScript a lot more

Posted September 26, 2013 - 6:00 am

Firebug, the popular web development debugging tool, was inspired by these utilities that came before it
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Microsoft sails past Oracle in bringing Java SE to the cloud

Posted September 25, 2013 - 5:08 pm

While Oracle CEO Larry Ellison focuses his attention on the America's Cup sailing race, Oracle is rushing to keep up in another race, the one to get its Java SE (Standard Edition) in the cloud.
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Private Cloud: It's More than Just Virtualization

Posted September 25, 2013 - 3:16 pm

Maximize Your Private Cloud Benefits By Including All Core Functionality
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Scale-out storage helps optimize your storage infrastructure

Posted September 25, 2013 - 3:16 pm

Clustered Storage: What is it?
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Best of Breed Private Cloud with NetApp and Windows Server 2012

Posted September 25, 2013 - 3:16 pm

The benefits of the private cloud
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Big data: what’s it good for?

Posted September 25, 2013 - 6:00 am

A couple of new surveys indicate that while businesses are moving full steam ahead toward big data, they don't have a firm grasp on what it can do for them.
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Oracle OpenWorld attendees fume over Ellison keynote

Posted September 24, 2013 - 8:30 pm

Oracle customers pay handsome fees to attend its OpenWorld conference each year, and many of them felt short-changed Tuesday when Larry Ellison skipped his final keynote to watch an America's Cup sailing race.
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SkyDrive stumbles, becomes latest cloud app to get glitchy

Posted September 24, 2013 - 6:26 pm

Another day, another cloud app gets stung by a bug. Microsoft's SkyDrive cloud storage service began malfunctioning on Tuesday afternoon, a day after Google's Gmail got tripped by a network breakdown.
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Citrix aims for VMware, Amazon with new cloud strategy

Posted September 24, 2013 - 4:14 pm

Citrix Tuesday updated its cloud computing strategy, saying that its platform – which is based off the Apache CloudStack project - can span both private on-premises deployments and public clouds and is the only one in the market that takes an application-centric approach to architecting clouds.
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Demand for cloud skills still outpaces supply of workers

Posted September 24, 2013 - 3:11 pm

Cloud technology is a 'must-have' for organizations building out or replacing their data center architecture, but there's still a major cloud skills gap that's impeding faster adoption and growth
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Oracle’s Nimbula integration bolsters enterprise OpenStack cred

Posted September 24, 2013 - 2:50 pm

Businesses will be able to use Nimbula with a whole suite of Oracle products
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Oracle takes the fight to Amazon, Salesforce.com with new cloud services

Posted September 24, 2013 - 2:37 pm

Oracle is offering a series of new services that position it as a one-stop shop for all things cloud and directly target the likes of Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com.
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Red Hat serves middleware to cloud developers

Posted September 24, 2013 - 12:19 pm

In a move to jump ahead of other PaaS (platform as a service) providers in the enterprise space, Red Hat will augment its OpenShift offering with a suite of middleware to ease the process of deploying cloud-based applications.
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CERN wants us to surf like it’s 1990

Posted September 24, 2013 - 6:00 am

The birthplace of the web wants to preserve the first website, and the experience of surfing it
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Oracle pushes into database-as-a-service

Posted September 23, 2013 - 4:04 pm

Oracle has hyped its new 12c database as faster and more powerful than ones that have come before, and now it's highlighting the release's ability to easily serve up multiple databases of varying size and scope according to a particular user's needs.
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Could the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 be your only device?

Posted September 23, 2013 - 3:52 pm

Today Microsoft held an event to announce and showcase the Surface 2 tablet and accessories. While there are several flashy new items like the thinner, back lit Type Cover 2 and the dedicated DJ type cover - the real potential of the new device comes in the form of business productivity enhancements.
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