Oracle and NetSuite are to jointly offer cloud services to mid-size business customers. The alliance announced Wednesday was the third last week around Oracle's technologies. The Redwood Shores, California, company announced earlier last ...
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Rivals Microsoft and Oracle are to team up on their cloud-based platforms as they face growing competition from new agile internet-based tech firms that sell cheaper services. For years Microsoft and Oracle had been competing for the same ...
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Oracle and Microsoft have announced a partnership that will see Oracle's database,application server,Java programming language and other products find a home inside Microsoft's Azure cloud service.? The deal,which will also provide Oracle ...
Dell has introduced a converged computing, storage and networking system for small and remote offices, the PowerEdge VRTX, saying it will let customers deploy a system with virtualization in hours. Converged systems are playing a growing ...
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Report shows 55% will change backup tool by 2014, in order to better protect virtual environments. Veeam Software, provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, has ...
Microsoft is updating a number of its IT infrastructure and development tools to work more seamlessly with its Azure hosted cloud services, including Windows Server, System Center, Visual Studio and SQL Server. "You can think of all these ...
For the kickoff of Microsoft's annual North American TechEd conference, the company is urging administrators and IT professionals to think of it as the provider of the "Cloud OS." Microsoft announced a sweeping range of updates to its ...
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While some progress has been achieved in getting virtual machines to run across different types of hypervisors, more work is still needed to bring them to the level of portability that enterprises are seeking, according to a study released ...
In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation. Citrix announced the donation Monday at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration ...
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Cisco?last week extended its?data centre?product line to support Microsoft's?Windows Server 2012?hypervisor and VM management features to more tightly align the two companies' data centre and cloud architectures for joint customers. The ...
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Silver Peak Systems announced a new virtual application designed to dramatically speed up data duplication for disaster recovery without the purchase of additional hardware. The company's VRX-2, VRX-4 and VRX-8 products are part of its ...
VMware plans to acquire Virsto Software, maker of a "storage hypervisor" that will be added to VMware's popular virtualization lineup and licensed by EMC. Virsto's software is designed to let enterprises virtualize their storage systems ...
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Flash storage vendor STEC is super-sizing the kind of flash storage used in smartphones and portable music players, coming out on Monday with 2TB SSDs in configurations for enterprise equipment vendors. The SSDs (solid-state drives) being ...
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VMware has bucked recent hiring trends in the tech sector by announcing 900 job losses, despite unveiling a three per cent rise in 2012 income to $746m (£475m), while revenue rose 22 per cent to $4.61bn (£2.94bn). The ...
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Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach. Cisco and NetApp, a storage rival of EMC's, are ...
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