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 Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for busin...May. 23, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,757 |
 NetSuite, the cloud-based ERM house majority-owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, has agreed to buy OrderMotion, a cloud-based Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) order management company.
Financial terms were not disclosed. OrderMotion, which has been around for a long time, has gotten over $10 m...May. 9, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,376 |
 Today's developers want platforms that make innovation faster, less complex, and more efficient.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Gene Eun, Sr. Director, Oracle Cloud at Oracle, will provide an overview of Oracle Cloud's easy-to-use, enterprise-grade, and open sta...Apr. 26, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,102 |
 What's the difference between "DBaaS" and "DRaaS"? What's the current status of Hadoop? What's the US Government doing right now in the Cloud? How about the financial industry? Why is the Cloud so important to the Big Data boom?
Which cloud model is right for your company? How can y...Apr. 26, 2013 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,881 |
 Many enterprises are pursuing cloud computing to reduce costs and speed time to value, all with lower risk and improved service levels. We've seen many customers succeed by organizing their transformation into distinct, manageable phases: a Journey to the Enterprise Cloud.
Service De...Apr. 23, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,212 |
 What are all the requirements for planning, preparing, deploying, monitoring, and managing enterprise private clouds from a cloud builder's perspective?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Anand Akela, Sr. Principal Product Director at Oracle, will show how Oracle En...Apr. 23, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,688 |
 Larry Ellison’s latest scheme for proving his multibillion-dollar investment in Sun was a brilliant scheme will be to move features from the Oracle database like accelerated queries and Java middleware into Sun silicon.
“Software in silicon is redefining enterprise computing,” he sai...Apr. 1, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,194 |
 Oracle said Monday that it’s buying Tekelec, which makes mobile broadband software that service providers use to manage and monetize multimedia applications and the increased mobile data traffic they’re seeing.
Tekelec claims 300 SP clients in 100 countries.
Terms were not disclose...Mar. 26, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,933 |
 Amazon Web Services EC2 Cloud is full scale public data center offering services that are in many aspects far ahead of ancient practices present in regular IT environments. Fast provisioning and virtually unlimited scale make old fashioned server procurement and installations look like...Oct. 19, 2011 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,527 |
 Red Hat has transitioned into a leadership role for the OpenJDK 6 project, effectively extending support for the technology and its users. The move reinforces Red Hat’s commitment to the broader Java community and its future as a leading platform for mission-critical enterprise applica...Mar. 11, 2013 04:13 PM EDT Reads: 4,083 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Wednesday gave the world another lesson in how to spend like a billionaire. He announced that he’s bought Island Air, the airline that makes hops between the Hawaiian Islands, to go with his purchase last year of almost all of Lanai, the resort island off Maui,...Feb. 28, 2013 03:00 AM EST Reads: 1,697 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has evidently called in a few markers and persuaded some of his friends to stand up with him in his legal battle over Java against Google and its Android operating system.
On Tuesday, the last day to file amicus briefs supporting Oracle’s appeal of the distri...Feb. 25, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,917 |
 After you have secured your private electronic information using encryption and learned how to encrypt and digitally sign files for others, how do you extract the information and determine who encrypted the file? Asymmetric public/private key encryption allows you to decipher the infor...Feb. 22, 2013 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,154 |
 Identity management just isn’t what it used to be. Gone are the days when knowing who had access to what was simply enough. In today’s world of increasing government and industry regulation; networked communications and collaboration; and pervasive mobility, the requirements have funda...Feb. 21, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 3,835 |
 Oracle Monday appealed the multibillion-dollar Google-Java decision that went horribly against it last year when Android was found not to infringe on its patent or copyrights. It says if works of fiction are protected by copyright, so should the Java language claiming that Google copie...Feb. 17, 2013 04:00 PM EST Reads: 3,774 |
 Remember back almost two years ago now when Oracle said it wasn’t going to write software anymore for the Itanium chip that HP depended on for its high-end, high-margin Integrity and Superdome servers with their lucrative service contracts because the Itanium chip was secretly nearing ...Feb. 15, 2013 10:29 AM EST Reads: 2,097 |
 We are looking at problems these technologies attempt to solve and their inherent limitations, in relations to their usefulness in enterprise computing.
Oracle database is a relational database management system that mostly complies with ACID transaction requirements (atomicity, consi...Oct. 24, 2011 04:07 PM EDT Reads: 7,061 |
 In today’s environment, information security is crucial for everyone. Security needs vary widely from protecting social security numbers to guarding corporate strategy. Information espionage can occur at all levels. A human resources employee or manager takes employee personnel files h...Feb. 11, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 3,784 |
 Oracle is going to buy Acme Packet, a Massachusetts networking gear player that sells secure IP video conferencing, data and voice calling to SPs and the enterprise.
Acme is a company, described as a “one of Boston’s recent success stories,” as well as a rival of Cisco and Juniper, m...Feb. 5, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,622 |
 Social interactions driven by mobile devices are causing a huge growth in infrastructure needs by enterprises. This write-up is about an event held for enterprise users.
The growth of mobile devices generated by smartphones and tablets is driving universal access to information in th...Feb. 4, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 2,461 |
 Modern enterprise class Oracle shops typically operate hundreds of Oracle databases, all managed by sizable DBA teams.
Properly deployed Oracle databases actually require little administrative effort. I am here exploring ideas, technologies and techniques that bring us closer to the...Jan. 28, 2013 03:34 PM EST Reads: 1,457 |
 EPractize Labs offers mock exam simulator with study guide for OCEJWCD 6 (SCWCD 6) certification and it was released during OCE Web Component Certification beta stage itself.
The software kit, OCEJWCD 6 Certification Training Lab Kit contains 706 practice questions with brief expla...Jan. 18, 2013 09:50 AM EST Reads: 2,323 |
 NetSuite said Thursday that it’s bought 28-year-old Retail Anywhere in a deal that’s supposed to deliver the first cloud-based system that unifies POS and e-commerce in a single application.
The company, which is majority owned by Larry Ellison, says it’s bringing brick-and-mortar re...Jan. 11, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 3,826 |
 Are you suffering from double vision in your IT? As odd as it sounds, this is a common occurrence. Line-of-business (LOB) stakeholders often use a different set of criteria to measure IT than IT uses to measure itself. This can lead to a kind of “double vision”that can hurt IT prospect...Aug. 27, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 7,804 |
 There are quite a few academic papers and products inspired by the vision of memory-centric DBMS. Most of modern databases serving business applications can already fit within large server RAM available today (2TB). DBMS are heading to memory centric designs and implementation.
Contem...Jan. 2, 2013 05:00 AM EST Reads: 2,668 |
 automation and revenue performance management software.
It’s agreed to pay $23.50 a share, a 31% premium over Eloqua’s close Wednesday. Oracle said it would lay out $871 net of Eloqua’s cash. It seems we might figure about $811 million.
Eloqua, which got started in 2000, only IPO’d ...Dec. 21, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 3,315 |
 What changes in the cloud computing and big data landscape should we be expecting in 2013? In this article we offer a round-up of industry experts' opinions as they were asked by Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan to preview the year ahead.Dec. 18, 2012 01:00 AM EST Reads: 18,631 |
 Oracle said Thursday that it’s buying California-based DataRaker for its cloud-based analytics platform, which pulls Big Data off utilities’ sensors and smart meters.
It’s supposed to help electric, gas and water utilities improve their operations and efficiency.
Oracle didn’t say ...Dec. 14, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,771 |
 Autonomy is more shopworn than we knew.
Michael Dell confided to a reporter from Britain’s Sunday Telegraph this weekend that, like Oracle, he was offered the UK software company before HP bought it.
Michael said he quickly passed because it was “overwhelmingly obvious” that it was ...Dec. 11, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,434 |
 This article provides enough info about Oracle Java Certification program that plays an important role in a Java Professional's career growth.
The answer is simple, do all the certifications which can improve your career potential in terms of money(high salary) and technologies.
Ther...Nov. 19, 2012 05:21 AM EST Reads: 6,483 |
 Oracle has made a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, the Platform-as-a-Service company with the cloud development platform that supports the Ruby, PHP and Node.js development languages.
The exact sum, position and valuation went unmentioned. Engine Yard will continue to ...Nov. 14, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,104 |
 The latest OSX update released last week removes all traces of what used to be an Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from Mac-compatible browsers when it installs.
Apple doesn’t say why but it’s telling users to go to Oracle for the latest version of the plug-in if they need it for a...Oct. 25, 2012 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,808 |
 Oracle has formally advised Judge William Alsup that it intends to appeal the verdict in its patent and copyright suit against Google and Android.
Judge Alsup, you’ll remember, decided Oracle’s Java APIs weren’t copyrightable, an issue it’s got to prevail on in its appeal.
Whether ...Oct. 7, 2012 11:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,264 |
 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, a late convert to the cloud, formally announced the coming of an Oracle Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud to compete primarily with Amazon Web Services.
The announcement was made during his keynote Sunday at Oracle OpenWorld. Larry, being Larry, and t...Oct. 3, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,759 |
 Oracle turned in its fiscal Q1 scorecard Thursday when the market closed and said earnings were up 11% to $2 billion (41 cents a share) on revenues down 2% to $8.2 billion. Wall Street expected $8.4 billion
New software licenses and cloud software subscriptions revenues were up 5% to...Sep. 24, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,969 |
 Oracle is buying SelectMinds, a New York maker of cloud-based social talent sourcing and corporate alumni management apps that are supposed to empower recruiters, hiring managers and employees to leverage social connections for higher-quality referrals.
Referrals are the #1 source of...Sep. 19, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,417 |
 For enterprise class cloud services, companies need a broad, comprehensive and flexible platform for their applications. The Oracle Cloud, which offers a broad set of best-in-class, integrated services that are secure, elastic, and 100% open standards-based, offering organizations choi...Sep. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,098 |
 Java trial judge William Alsup has ordered Oracle to pay $1,130,350 for Google’s court costs, mostly for a court-appointed expert witness.
Google, the “prevailing party,” wanted $4,030,699, but the judge cut it back $2,900,349 refusing to accept its bill for third-party e-discovery. ...Sep. 6, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,971 |
 Back from the long Labor Day weekend, Oracle bit its lip and said that – at the point of a court order – it would continue to make software for HP’s high-end Itanium systems.
HP took Oracle to court after it said the Itanium chip was dead in the water and it wouldn’t develop any more...Sep. 6, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,325 |
 Oracle is appealing to get the whole $1.3 billion in damages a California jury awarded it last year in its copyright infringement case against rival SAP.
SAP admitted that its third-party maintenance subsidiary TomorrowNow illegally downloaded scads of software from Oracle’s servers....Sep. 5, 2012 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,150 |
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