IDG News Service - Box announced on Tuesday an HTML5 framework that makes it possible for customers and other vendors to fully integrate features of its file sharing and cloud storage software into websites and enterprise applications. ...
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Google has acquired Wildfire Interactive, a social media marketing company, aiming to creating new opportunities for its clients to engage with people across all social services, it said Tuesday. Started four years ago, Wildfire in ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle is planning to unveil new migration tools that help customers port applications written for SAP's Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise product over to Oracle's own flagship database and Exadata database machine, ...
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Computerworld - Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at chip maker AMD, recently deployed a 6TB all-NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment. The result, he said, was astounding. In AMD's virtualization ...
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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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Enterprise software provider CA Technologies has appointed Michael Gregoire as its new chief executive officer after a six-month search. Gregoire, 46, has worked in the software and IT services industry for 25 years, most recently at the ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle may soon fully transition away from the much-maligned, Flash-based version of its support portal over to a new HTML edition next week, according to an official blog post on Thursday. Next Friday, July 13, the ...
Tags: Oracle, HTML edition, My Oracle Support, company news
ccwith the unveiling of a new service called Work.com next month during the Dreamforce event in San Francisco. The news first emerged in a Bloomberg profile of the company published on Thursday. A Salesforce.com spokeswoman confirmed the ...
Tags: Salesforce, human resources software, new service, Work.com
Microsoft today said it will patch at least 14 vulnerabilities next week, including four in Internet Explorer (IE), making it three months in a row that the company has plugged holes in its browser. Of the nine updates set for Aug. 14, ...
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Infoworld - Oracle is finding its road map for enterprise Java is a bit too ambitious, with the company now proposing a postponement in cloud computing capabilities that had been anticipated for Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) 7 ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle database customers running version 11g Release 1 have until the end of this month to upgrade, or else face increased annual maintenance fees. The vendor provides five years of Premier Support after a new product ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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A California court on Wednesday ordered Oracle to continue porting its software to the Intel Itanium chips used by Hewlett-Packard in a number of its servers. Last year, Oracle, which competes with HP in the hardware market but shares ...
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IDG News Service - Oracle did the right thing this week when it pledged to resume porting its software to Hewlett-Packard's Itanium-based servers, but it should never have pulled that support from a critical platform as it did in March ...
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If planned technical sessions are any indication, Oracle will remain undaunted in intentions to champion both the low-profile JavaFX rich client platform and the notion of Java on Apple's iOS devices, where Java has been stymied. These ...
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