Oracle Corp. is expanding the cloud footprint for its MySQL HeatWave database offering. Since the original launch of MySQL HeatWave in December 2020, Oracle has made several major enhancements to the high-performance database technology. However, the offering could only run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a potential liability in an increasingly multicloud world. Oracle took a ...

Oracle Corp’s. Exadata X9M online transaction processing database is like an automobile on the professional racing circuit. Every few months, Oracle takes the race car into the garage for fine tuning and it comes out with even faster performance around the track than before. Nearly one year after introducing the X9M, Oracle has teamed up ...

VMware Inc. spent the better part of the last week in August outlining a vision of the future for its customers. That vision will be multicloud or services for cross-cloud applications based on announcements made by the virtualization pioneer during the event. VMware focused on multicloud solutions that extended collaboration with Microsoft Azure and Amazon ...

The technology world is entering a new phase where code complexity and widespread use of global software tools have opened the door for a damaging security flaw that can last for years. The enterprise community received a preview of this in 2012 when a security flaw was introduced in an update for OpenSSL, a popular ...

During the recently concluded VMware Explore gathering in San Francisco, NetApp Inc. and VMware Inc. announced a partnership expansion that will include new customer-driven initiatives for migrating enterprise workloads to multicloud architectures. The partnership expansion followed many years of collaboration, a point that was noted during keynote presentations at the event by VMware executives. “It ...

One of the major changes at VMware Explore in August was the name itself. The event, previously known as VMworld, was rebranded in 2022 to reflect the company’s own transition from being a virtualization pioneer and developing the private cloud to what has become a multicloud universe. “It wasn’t just to come back to what ...

In the 1999 sci-fi action thriller “The Matrix,” one of the lead characters confronts a choice between taking a red pill to learn a life-changing truth about the future or a blue pill that will keep him in blissful ignorance. Google Cloud is extending the red pill/blue pill analogy to encompass a third option surrounding ...

Among the many questions surrounding VMware Explore this week was how the partnership between Dell Technologies Inc. and VMware Inc. would continue nearly one year after Dell divested VMware from the corporate family. According to executives from both firms, the partnership has remained strong, and the conference schedule provided testimony for that. “Here at VMware ...

We have already seen the “Great Resignation” when 47 million Americans voluntarily quit their jobs in 2021. In VMware Inc.’s view of the technology universe, 2022 will be the year of the “Great Replatforming.” At the VMware Explore gathering in San Francisco this week, Chief Executive Raghu Raghuram (pictured) appeared on the keynote stage and ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is making a global push for supply chain security in its server line. Two years ago, HPE launched its Trusted Supply Chain initiative to advance end-to-end security in servers for U.S. federal and public sector customers. This month, HPE is announcing an expansion of this program globally for its ProLiant server ...