Maureen O'Gara

Oracle Keynote at Cloud Expo Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who gets queasy at the mere mention of cloud computing, may not have the sea legs for the company's next voyage. It's going on a 50-stop road show touting - you guessed it - cloud computing Oracle-style to developers and system administrators. The focus should be on private clouds and how to move current IT environments there. It may even touch on how to use public cloud options such as Amazon although it jettisoned Sun's Amazon-like Open Cloud and with it Sun's cloud CTO Lew Tucker. ... (more)

Terracotta & Eucalyptus Take Rain Out of the Cloud

Eucalyptus Session at Cloud Expo Terracotta, the high-availability infrastructure software for Java apps, and Eucalyptus Systems, the open source private cloud platform, have joined up in the name of an open source solution that maximizes data scalability and application performance in a private cloud environment. They'll tighten the integration between their widgetry and do joint sales an... (more)

Twitter & Facebook Get a Buzz Cut

New Media on Ulitzer Reportedly unable to buy Twitter last summer, Google got Twitter-ized Tuesday. It has integrated a self-affirming, "I tweet therefore I am," so-called babble-style capability smacking a lot of Facebook and Twitter into Gmail so users can share media and status updates with a connected circle of their friends - and the web, if they choose, where it will be indexed and... (more)

Dell Confirms Exanet Bid

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer Dell confirmed that it’s trying to buy the gone-bust Israeli clustered NAS start-up Exanet after Israel’s Globes news site said Monday that the deal was in the bag. There is also speculation that Dell might start selling EMC’s recently acquired Data Domain deduplication widgetry, the stuff it snatched away from NetApp last year. Dell has sold EMC’s Clarii... (more)

Dell Buys ExaStore: Globes

Mergers & Acquisitions on Ulitzer Dell, which has been promising a little M&A, is buying the gone-bust Israeli-based clustered NAS start-up Exanet according to Israel's Globes news site. Dell is reportedly only paying $12 million for a company whose four investors kicked in $70 million over the last 10 years. The acquisition is supposed to give Dell its first R&D center in Israel. It als... (more)