Amazon Web Services New Certification SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – September 20, 2010) – ORACLE OPENWORLD Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today announced that a wide selection of Oracle enterprise software has been certified to run on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using Oracle VM virtualization. As a result of running on Oracle VM, Oracle now fully certifies and supports the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle Linux on Amazon EC2. Customers who power their business with Oracle software will now be able
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Practically Speaking about Cloud Storage Part 2 The marketplace for cloud storage is getting more and more crowded each and every day. Whether it is targeted towards individuals, SMBs or Enterprises more new players are trying to offer service value. As in the case with Dropbox. There are at least a dozen others in the limelight. They are: Box.net, SugarSync, Apple Mobileme, Carbonite, ZumoDrive, iBackup, LiveDrive, Mozy etc… For the business and enterprise section, in addition to Amazon S3, there are Nirvanix, MozyPro, Parascale ( now with HDS), Vembu, Caringo, Microsoft Windows Azure, IronMountain, EMC Atmos etc.. Practically end users
Oracle Reveals New Exalogic Elastic Cloud SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) — Oracle Corp. (ORCL) Chief Executive Larry Ellison kicked off his keynote address at Oracle’s annual customer conference on Sunday with comments on cloud computing and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM), rather than focusing on Oracle’s strained partnership with partner Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ). “Cloud stands in stark contrast to Salesforce.com,” Ellison said, calling out several ways in which he thinks Saleforce is not an example of cloud computing. Cloud computing, he added, “is a platform upon which you build applications. It includes hardware and software.” The comments were a build-up to his
Cloud Computing Event Oracle Announces Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne and Oracle Develop San Francisco 2010 Keynote Lineup REDWOOD SHORES, CA–(Marketwire – September 17, 2010) – Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts Industry leaders from Oracle, Fujitsu, Dell, HP, Infosys and Intel will deliver keynotes at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference, JavaOne and Oracle Develop Conferences, September 19-23, 2010 at Moscone Center and Hilton, in San Francisco. This year’s keynotes will feature insights into industry trends, the latest technology developments and innovations and key strategies for achieving new business trends. Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne and Oracle Develop 2010 Keynote Lineup Sunday, September 19 | 5:30
Google TV Coming To A Living Room Near You – Next Month… The New Cloud Computing Entertainment Center There has been a lot of speculation as to when Google TV will make its debut. It appears that it will be available at some point in October. More specifically Oct 17th, 2010 based on this leaked document found over at Engadget. The new Google TV platform will be available as a set-top box and will be shipping later this month for a cost of roughly $299. Best Buy will be one of the major retail chains stocking the new Google TV
Practically Speaking about Cloud Storage If we ever have a chance to sit back and think, we will wonder how easily we accumulate things and store them in various places. Whether it is in our personal life or in the companies that we work or connected with, we can find that. In digital life too, we gather a lot of information and data and try to store them in convenient places that we find. Worldwide there is a huge growth of digital data. Data here means a lot. Not necessarily a text message or a spreadsheet. Audio, Video included. If
Equinix Chief Stephen Smith on the advantages of being a digital middle-man. Article By Forbes.com SAN FRANCISCO — Equinix‘s business is straightforward. The company owns more places, where more networks meet, than any other. That’s what brings new customers to its data centers. Each new customer ultimately makes this business more valuable. That’s because in the Internet era it’s the number, and quality, of your connections that count, whether you’re a high-speed fiber optic network operator looking for a place to connect with your customers and competitors, a Web company such as Google or Facebook, or a wireless carrier looking
National Survey of Corporate Financial Executives Reveals Accelerating Adoption Among Smaller Companies SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – September 16, 2010) – Proformative, The Resource for corporate finance, accounting, and treasury professionals, today announced the results of an extensive survey of CFOs, Controllers, and other financial professionals regarding the use and understanding of Cloud computing and ‘software as a service,’ or ‘SaaS.’ The survey was designed to elicit critical information on what could be the largest change in technology platforms since the emergence of the Internet. Proformative received 432 responses from executives and directors around the country, with responders representing companies of
