IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to roll out a new IaaS (infrastructure as a service) offering that will compete directly with Amazon Web Services, along with a service called Oracle Public Cloud that runs inside customers' facilities, ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company's next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, saying they constitute a more modern approach to cloud-based ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle has finally answered a big question hovering over its emerging family of cloud services: What do they cost? While not giving a public price for every one of its cloud products, Oracle's website now has pricing ...
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Infoworld - Nearly 15 years since the term "open source" was first applied, the trends driving the open source movement are not the same. Back then, price advantage, direct differentiation on licensing versus proprietary software, ...
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webMethods 9.0 unites cloud, social, mobile and big data technologies in a major development of the company's Cloud & Big Data strategies. Software AG unveiled a major update to its webMethods product suite at its ProcessWorld event in ...
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This analyst report from Nucleus Research assesses the business benefits of cloud solutions for managing the workforce. As the workforce management (WFM) market has evolved over the past decade, cloud applications have gained in ...
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Windows Azure customers will be able to use Linux-based operating systems, open source tools and languages for the first time now that Microsoft Azure officially supports those offerings. The move to support Linux and open source ...
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SAP has laid out a set of pricing and policies for tying together its array of cloud-based and on-premises applications, providing some options at no charge, but others that will cost customers additional money. Application integration is ...
Oracle said Monday it has inked a deal to buy software-defined networking vendor Xsigo Systems, in a move that will support Oracle's ongoing foray into cloud computing. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close within a few ...
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Chances are you're already doing business with CDW. After all, the Vernon Hills, Ill.-based provider of tech products and services boasts more than a quarter-million customers to whom it ships more than 2,200 custom-configured systems every ...
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Oracle touted what it called strong early adoption of its next-generation Fusion Applications on Monday, but also discussed how it will continue to support and add new features to the company's other business software lines, such as ...
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South Lanarkshire council has invested in an IBM XIV disk storage platform as part of its move to virtualisation. The IBM XIV environment supports email, file and print and virtualised line of business applications to minimise downtime. ...
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As staff bring their own devices to work, IT will need to rethink its printing and scanning policies, a study commissioned by Canon has reported. The pan-European survey of 729 users and decision-makers across Europe found that employers ...
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The enterprise software market on Thursday suddenly got an intimate look inside Workday, a red-hot startup that makes cloud applications for human resources and financials, with the public release of its S-1 IPO filing. Workday, which was ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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