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Analysis: Oracle Cloud@Customer brings breakthrough full cloud experience on-premises
Oracle Corp. last week made some cloud announcements that represent the most ambitious attempt yet, among a number of others, to bring a full cloud experience to enterprises’ on-premises data centers. The most noteworthy of the announcements were the availability of Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer (including Autonomous Data Guard) and Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Together, they represent a radical ...
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Exiting x86: Why Apple and Microsoft are embracing the Arm-based PC
In a sea change, Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are exiting Intel Corp.’s x86 processor architecture for their personal computers. Apple has been using x86 for 15 years, Microsoft for more than 30 years. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook (pictured) announced the transition to the Arm Ltd.-based PC for the macOS at its online Worldwide Developers Conference this ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Analysis: How AWS’ new Outposts service enables the hybrid cloud
This is a new report from Wikibon, SiliconANGLE Media’s market research company. Introduction AWS is bringing its core technologies into enterprise data centers and to the network edge. This move dramatically increases the reach and range of AWS, and it’s the start of an era of hybrid computing. Wikibon projected that AWS would announce its ...
Energy Saving Service Opportunities from Veridity
Veridity announced EnergyCenter Version 2.0 on June 21 2011, and now represents a new opportunity for service providers to sell software and services to help clients achieve significant savings in power costs, and improve utilization of IT resources in mid-size and larger data centers. The Achilles heel of such services is the setup costs, with ...