The Future of Big IT Lies within a Hybrid of Cloud and Localized Technologies

Bert Latamore | September 22nd

Large applications like ERP systems in enterprise-class organizations are not easily turned into SaaS-type cloud services, despite the huge pressure to move systems off-premise, says Dell Managing Director for Services Sukumar Narayanan. Although his present brief is running

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Cloudera Co-Founder Amr Awadallah on Hadoop’s Role for the Enterprise

Maria Deutscher | September 22nd

Editor's Note:  The following is an interview SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier held with Clouder co-founder, Amr Awadallah.  This is one of several in-depth interviews held at the conference, which was streamed live at SiliconANGLE.tv. Cloudera, a...»

Generosa Litton: Oracle Wants to be the Next IBM

Bert Latamore | September 22nd

“I was really surprised when Oracle bought Sun,” says NetApp Senior Manager Generosa Litton in an interview with Wikibon founder David Vellante on a SiliconAngle.tv webcast from OracleWorld 2010 (http://www.siliconangle.tv/video/changes-oracle-netapp-generosa-litton-peter-schay). “I really expected Oracle to remain a

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Dell Moves from an Infrastructure to a Solutions Provider

Bert Latamore | September 22nd

As Dell moves from an infrastructure and mainly a hardware company to a full solutions provider, competing with the likes of IBM, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard, one of its largest differentiators is its open architecture stack, says Sukumar Narayanan,...»

Cloud Wars Get Stormy with Takeover Resistance from Oracle Customers and Employees

Kristen Nicole | September 22nd

The cloud war is brewing up some choppy seas this week, with Oracle’s OpenWorld revealing long-planned plots towards world domination. Between Oracle’s Fusion release and massive acquisitions like Sun Microsystems, the storage and...»

Animoto.com: Making Slideshow Music Videos Easy for Three Years and Counting

Kyt Dotson | September 22nd

In the news today, Animoto.com just had a birthday bash and a cake with three candles. Animoto is an online resource and application set that allows users to collage together their photos and video...»

Oracle Stacks the Deck with Integrated Hardware and Software: Convenience, Lock-in and Higher Prices

Dave Vellante | September 22nd

Each year, Oracle takes over San Francisco for a week and showcases its enormity to the world. At 40,000+ attendees, this year’s OpenWorld is bigger than ever and includes the JavaOne developer conference. Indeed, Oracle’s acquisition of Sun...»

Providing Burst Capabilities to Large Enterprises and Important Part of Switch Strategy

Bert Latamore | September 22nd

Ed note: Wikibon co-founder and CEO David Vellante interviewed Jason Mendenhall, Executive VP of Switch, a co-location and cloud infrastructure provider, which has built the Super|Nap, the world’s highest density data center in Las
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Zenoss Reveals the Cloud State of the Union for 2010

Kristen Nicole | September 21st

There’s plenty of hype going on in the cloud, pushing virtualization methodology, seeking the promise of streamlined enterprise processes to securely save data, make it accessible, and save money along the way.  With more virtual...»

Oracle Exalogic: Optimization instead of Virtualization

Stuart Miniman | September 21st

Oracle announced their latest integrated stack, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud at Oracle Open World this week in San Francisco.  Exalogic is compute and memory optimized for workloads such as Oracle database.  Oracle’s pitch is that Exalogic

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