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Oracle “whistleblower” Svetlana Blackburn has a fight on her hands. The database giant, which has never been one to shirk away from its legal battles, has come out with all guns blazing in response to allegations it cooked its cloud revenue numbers, …
Server market struggles with few bright spots
Server sales continue to disintegrate in the face of unstoppable cloud growth and the increasing popularity of virtualization. The global server market saw revenues decline while shipments rose only modestly, indicating that sales prices continue to slip. Analyst firm Gartner Inc. said …
HPE’s OpenSwitch project gets Linux Foundation backing
The Linux Foundation has embraced a new open-source networking project in the shape of OpenSwitch. OpenSwitch is an open-source operating system for data center network switches that was first built by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise before being launched last year. The Linux-based OS is …
“Whistleblower” accuses Oracle of cooking its cloudy revenue books
A former Oracle employee is taking the database giant to court, claiming the company fired her for refusing to inflate its cloud-based revenue figures. Svetlana Blackburn claimed in a whistleblower lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Wednesday that her dismissal from the …
SQL Server 2016 is ready for prime time
Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 has finally hit general availability, and Redmond chiefs are launching the software alongside a special offer aimed at wooing customers away from leading database giant Oracle. Oracle users are being offered the chance to migrate their databases to …
CoreOS creates Torus, a container-focused distributed storage system
Container-centric startup CoreOS Inc. has taken the wraps off of a new open-source project called Torus. Just like the company’s other projects, Torus is about bringing the same Web-scale technologies used by giants like Google and Facebook to a much wider audience, …
HPE goes all-in on the data center in search of revenue growth
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) will place its bets on its main data center hardware business to continue driving the bulk of its revenues, once it’s done shedding its Enterprise Server business. HPE, which only split from its PC and printer business last year …
Samsung: “We don’t suggest installation of Windows 10”
Microsoft claims Windows 10 has already been installed on more than 300 million devices, and has so far refused to let up in its aggressive push to get even more users to upgrade. But one of the world’s top laptop makers, Samsung …
Microsoft Azure offers “unintentional” discounts to some foreign buyers
It’s possible to obtain steep discounts on the price of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, if you’re willing to write a check in a currency that isn’t U.S. dollars. A new report in The Register says that Microsoft is offering “unintentional discounts” to …
Dell & Qualcomm announce key partnerships in China
Dell Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. are the latest U.S. firms to announce key partnerships with Chinese organizations aimed at expanding their presence in the Middle Kingdom’s massive market. Dell is investing in a Chinese startup with the aim of gaining more traction …