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.
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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)
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)
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)
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)