Growth In Private Cloud Adoption Continues To Rise

Explore da.feedsportal.com (Jan 24 2012) Cloud Computing

...sted private clouds will run into the first speed bumps, thanks to the efforts of companies such as Microsoft, HP, IBM and Oracle. All of which are offering and developing the tools needed to build private clouds on internally su... (Read Full Article)

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Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...f — to the big cloud operators. That roster includes the aforementioned players as well as Google, Microsoft, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and others that are building out more of their own data center capacity for use by customers. Do ... (Read Full Article)

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Salesforce, a Leader in Cloud Computing, Draws Big Rivals

Explore The New York Times (Dec 12 2011) Cloud Computing

...nues of $3 billion in 2012. That is $5 billion, and that is what has them worried. Where are SAP, Microsoft, Oracle? Why haven’t they taken our customers?” Much of the enterprise software industry, it’s true, has ha... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The New York Times   Amazon.com   Oracle

Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

... consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by the name of Red Hat. I spoke with Red Hat's VP of co...... value end users." End users here, of course, being Red Hat's customers. Consider it the inverse of Oracle's engineered systems, where Oracle claims to save customers money by building proprietary ... (Read Full Article)

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Data center energy consumption will increase. Are you (not) surprised?

Explore ITworld (Sep 26 2011) Cloud Computing

...YahEZHHDL commented on Unix tip: Inter-host trust on Unix, part 1 AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft: Enterprises will self-host Windows Azure someday AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Microsoft loses $106 million patent verdict to VirnetX AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on Web hosting outage a......BO in deal with DreamWorks: $30 mil per movie alpha440 has just joined ITworld mzddlin commented on Oracle, Google will hold third settlement conference mzddlin has just joined ITworld Dipmvh has ... (Read Full Article)

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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...igurations of datacenter hardware, the analyst said, adding that "preconfigured roll-on boxes" from Oracle and SAP, for instance, may take up less space but these devices consume "a lot more power". He adde......by virtual machines. As such, David Fosberg, vice president of Samsung Asia, said companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook are leading the way in terms of how they are relooking their datacenter archit... (Read Full Article)

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Organizational Charts- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, and Microsoft

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 5 2011)

..., it was more fun to break up the sections. Organizational Charts- Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, and Microsoft Date Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 1:48PM Here is a post a a friend shared on some tech companies organi... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Slashes Cloud Data Transfer Fees

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 1 2011) Cloud Computing

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Amazon Cloud Now Stores 339 Billion Objects

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...s building advanced applications, some using cloud-certified versions of applications from SAP and Oracle, two software companies that are huge players in the enterprise market. An example: The U.S. gover......market. An example: The U.S. government’s Recovery.gov web site, which is powered by software from Microsoft, SAP and ESRI and runs completely in the Amazon cloud. Spot Pricing Drives Enterprise Usage Vogel s... (Read Full Article)

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NYSE Launches Cloud Service for Wall Street

Explore CIO.com (Jun 20 2011) Cloud Computing

...ing the experiences of three enterprises with virtualizing their tier 1 applications, which include Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases and a Microsoft Exchange email system. Cloud computing is here, and it's real. It is, as we hear more often these d... (Read Full Article)

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Google Bids $900 Million for Nortel Patent Assets

Explore The New York Times (Apr 4 2011)

...to hold the auction in June. The dozens of patent lawsuits that Google is fighting include one from Oracle, which has sued Google for patent infringement related to Java software used on the Android mobile ...... patents, according to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, while Apple has around 3,830. Microsoft said it has about 18,000. Google could also use the Nortel patents to protect its partners, like ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Oracle

What's Hot (and What's Not) for Servers

Explore ServerWatch (Mar 2 2011)

...ed the most votes as being the vendor best suited for a Windows solution. A certain history between Oracle and Microsoft shows up in the user responses. "Not one of our survey respondents felt that Oracle was tops in Windows server capability," said Olds. "It's the first time we've ever seen a complete ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Joins Crowded Market With Virtual Desktop Platform

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 26 2011)

... ahead of IBM in this sector, including such longtime competitors as Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Wyse, Oracle, and Cisco Systems. Oh, and don’t forget all those brazen newcomers that include Kaviza, nComputing......s on the new product. Nor did we cite Virtual Bridges, which is supplying the management interface. Microsoft is providing the Windows interconnect. “Yes, we’re always pretty deliberate with the partners we ch... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Oracle   Cisco   Hewlett Packard

25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

...nity will be short -- particularly in the hardware market -- because billion-dollar vendors such as Oracle, IBM, HP and Microsoft will jealously guard profit margins, and try to push out new competitors by swallowing them up or r... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

Limitations of Saas highlighted at Gartner Itxpo

Explore ITWorld Canada (Oct 20 2010) Cloud Computing

...ments are often constructed. Examples of SaaS vendors include Salesforce, Taleo, Workday, NetSuite, Oracle, SuccessFactors, and Microsoft Dynamics. DeSisto points out that the irony, though, is that enterprise customers can end up with "......ound IT entirely," DeSisto said, and that has been known to happen. By: Rafael Ruffolo (12 Oct 2010)Microsoft Corp. is expected to wait until next year before directing any significant attention to enterprise IT sh... (Read Full Article)

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Regulations and Security Concerns Hinder Asia’s Move to Cloud Computing

Explore The New York Times (Oct 11 2010) Cloud Computing

... connections. “What will drive adoption is broadband penetration,” said Emilio Umeoka, president of Microsoft’s Asian operations in Singapore. “If you don’t have the pipe, you can’t get onto the cloud.” For po......fida so far have dominated the market, crowding out international firms like NEC, SAP of Germany or Oracle of the United States. Poor bandwidth access, however, is keeping China from becoming a cloud hub. T... (Read Full Article)

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HP-SAP merger talk considered far-fetched

Explore ITWorld Canada (Oct 5 2010)

...on that HP will acquire the enterprise applications giant to compete more effectively against rival Oracle, but some analysts say the notion is mere piffle. That's not to say there aren't obvious upsides......plug on its Android 2.2 tablet plans to hold out for Androi ... By: John Cox (10/5/2010 10:06:00 AM)Microsoft Corp. plans to phase in a limited number of Windows Phone ... (Read Full Article)

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Is Apple About to Unleash the iDataCenter?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing

...luding IBM’s HACMP and HAGEO solutions for high-availability clusters, Veritas Cluster Server, and Oracle’s DataGuard and Real Application Clusters. + Job candidates are also asked to be familiar with stor......ing chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed... (Read Full Article)

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Modern data centers require efficiency-oriented changes in networking with eye on simplicity

Explore it-analysis.com (Aug 20 2010) Cloud Computing , Networking

...egree of physical servers for especially some big apps that may not be virtualized for a long time, Oracle, SAP, some of the Microsoft things. Even when they are, they are going to be done with potentially different virtualization tec... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud Fears

Explore Linux (Aug 11 2010) Cloud Computing

...pects will improve as information technology shifts to an on-demand model. There you go folks. Even Microsoft, the doyen of “private computing” now sings the cloud song! Jnan Dash is Senior Advisor at EZShield......rly he was the Chief Strategy Officer (Consulting) at Curl Inc., before which he spent ten years at Oracle Corporation and was the Group Vice President, Systems Architecture and Technology till 2002. He was... (Read Full Article)

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Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 3 2010)

...ing on servers will continue to be slow in 2010 * By: Jeffrey Burt * August 3, 2010 Tags:Dell, IBM, oracle, Sun Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stumble Upon ...... such as more power- and energy-efficient processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, and Microsoft’s Windows 7, are expected to further give corporations incentive to spend. However, Gill said ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Larry Ellison   Sun Microsystems   Intel

The Technology Inside Apple’s New iDataCenter

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 21 2010) Cloud Computing

...luding IBM’s HACMP and HAGEO solutions for high-availability clusters, Veritas Cluster Server, and Oracle’s DataGuard and Real Application Clusters. + Job candidates are also asked to be familiar with stor......ing chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed... (Read Full Article)

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Container Design: Busting Out of The Box

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 12 2010) Construction , Container

...uirements, temporary capacity, or novel designs like the cloud computing facilities being built by Microsoft and Google. But some data center design and construction firms are now rolling out designs that emp......on to the incumbent data center container offerings from HP, IBM, SGI, IBM, Verari and perhaps even Oracle (which appears to be continuing Sun’s BlackBox program, but has not confirmed this publicly). More ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Oracle   IBM

Cisco, Ingram Micro Launch Asia's First Unified Computing Center

Explore MarketWatch.com (Jun 24 2010) Cloud Computing

...g and migration support. It will also feature technology from APC, CA, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec, VMware and other partners. As the pioneering solution center in the region, the Cisco... (Read Full Article)

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