New Relic has named John Gray, a former long-time channel exec for Oracle, as its new SVP of business development. Gray, who…
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Private cloud? Public cloud? Rackspace erases the difference
Rackspace is going to stop distinguishing between the money it makes from public cloud and what it derives from “dedicated” cloud, a category that encompasses a…
Read MoreWill calling Boston “CEO City” make it so?
John Cullinane, who co-founded what many characterize as the industry’s first standalone software startup back in 1968 near Boston, thinks the city…
Read MoreOracle paid north of $1.2B for Datalogix, says WSJ
Right before Christmas, when [company]Oracle[/company] announced plans to buy Datalogix it didn’t detail price. Now, The Wall Street Journal, (paywall) is filling in the…
Read MoreNot a shocker: SAP puts HANA at center of new biz apps push
When you hear from SAP these days, the software giant always leads with HANA, its in-memory database. HANA is to SAP what…
Read MoreSAP’s lower profit guidance blamed on “tough” cloud transition
SAP, like its enterprise software competitors, has been talking cloud for years, putting a ton of effort into promoting HANA as a…
Read MoreOracle names former CIA director Leon Panetta to its board
Leon Panetta, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense and CIA director under President Obama, is now an Oracle director. Panetta served as defense…
Read MoreOracle names Thomas Kurian president
When Oracle CEO Larry Ellison promoted co-presidents Safra Catz and Mark Hurd to co-CEOs in September, a slot opened up for a new president. Now…
Read MoreWatchdog group urges FTC to scrutinize latest Oracle deal
The Center for Digital Democracy wants the Federal Trade Commission to really look over Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Datalogix, announced Monday morning. The…
Read MoreOracle’s at it again: Acquires data broker Datalogix
Oracle continues to build its cloud-and-data arsenal, announcing its intention to buy Datalogix, a data marketing specialist that gleans consumer sentiment data via…
Read MoreRed Hat’s success aside, it’s hard to profit from free
Red Hat, which just reported a profit of $47.9 million (or 26 cents a share) on revenue of $456 million for its…
Read MoreFormer cloud pariah Oracle claims stronger cloud sales
Oracle, which ramped up its cloud marketing and product rollouts over the past year, touted some encouraging signs for that business in its second quarter, ending November 30.…
Read MoreThink AWS doesn’t have designs on in-house apps? Think again.
Some people still see Amazon Web Services as “out there” and think of their own on-premises servers as islands onto themselves. But, as we keep…
Read MoreOracle humbly suggests that you try its cloud
Oracle, which was late to cloud, nonetheless has arrived in time for mission-critical apps to make the cloud leap, according to the company’s new…
Read MoreMore from Facebook on its new networking architecture
Facebook's networking guru Najam Ahmad on why the company had to go to core-and-pod from less module cluster technology.…
Read MoreShocker: Lots of new product-and-feature news at AWS confab, but nary a price cut in sight
At AWS Re:Invent, Amazon may be signaling an end to the race to the bottom with lots of higher-end products and services, but not a mention of price cuts. There is another day to go, but still.…
Read MoreOracle “say on pay” proposal narrowly defeated by shareholders
Shareholders voted down the Say on Pay proposal again at Oracle, but the margin of defeat was narrower than last year and the year before.…
Read MoreGoogle urges Supreme Court to act on Oracle ruling, shut down copyright claims on APIs
Unless the Supreme Court steps in, companies like Oracle are set to own small pieces of code that are the basic building blocks used by developers in all sorts of technology. Here's Google's petition challenge to that.…
Read MoreDon’t write off that HP-EMC merger just yet
The specter of an HP-EMC merger loomed large over Monday morning's Hewlett-Packard analyst call, which was held to discuss HP's impending split into two public companies.…
Read MoreOracle dives into cloud (again), and this time it really means it
This week in cloud: It was all-cloud-all-the-time at Oracle OpenWorld as Larry Ellison again vowed that Oracle will lead the world in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Good luck with that says AWS, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, et al.…
Read MoreEricsson mind melds with Apcera, Talko takes on communications, and what’s up with Watson?
Jason Hoffman, the former Joyent CTO who's now spearheading Ericsson's cloud computing show talks about what he and Apcera are up to. In addition, the Oracle succession saga, Talko talks, and what's up with Watson.…
Read MoreOracle CEO changes — laying out the conspiracy theories
The week in cloud: Oracle CEO change bombshell-that-may-not-be-a-bombshell overshadowed a week that also brought more OpenStack cloud M&A.…
Read MoreSo, huge changes at Oracle with Ellison stepping down right? Wrong!
The more things change ... Ellison may no longer be Oracle's CEO-for-life, but he's still running the show.…
Read MoreExpense this? Concur Technologies said to be on the block
Concur Technologies, which fields SaaS-based expense report and travel management for businesses, is for sale, according to Bloomberg News.…
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