Maureen O'Gara

Microsoft Developer Striking while Oracle is at sixes and sevens over Sun, SAP and Microsoft, two of its worst enemies, have cut an anti-Oracle accord. Microsoft will recommend SAP's BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application to its customers as its preferred solution, which should irritate Oracle as well as help SAP tickle its flagging sales. They were down 9% last quarter with software licenses down 31% and similar expectations ahead. The companies said Wednesday that they are identifying targeted go-to-market initiatives to accelerate the adoption of the SAP software by Microsoft's user base and by small to mid-size organizations - not to mention trumping Oracle's similar widgetry in the process. SAP is focusing more on SMEs these days since large account... (more)

Intel Invests in Joyent’s Cloud

Intel Virtualization Magazine A piece of the $25 million investment pie Intel Capital sliced up and handed out recently to seven start-ups went to Joyent Inc, the California company that claims to have launched the first cloud infrastructure service in China a few weeks ago. It's the first institutional money - and not much of it obviously - that the five-year-old self-funded company has... (more)

IBM Offers a Little Blue Insight

IBM Journal IBM In the interest of selling more widgetry to more people, IBM has transformed one of its mainframes into what it calls Blue Insight, a private cloud packed initially with a petabyte of structured and unstructured data that 200,000 of its sales, product development and manufacturing people can access to make a sale. IBM had no hesitation in labeling it the world's largest p... (more)

No Intel License for Globalfoundries

Intel Virtualization Journal Turns out Intel apparently didn't give Globalfoundries, the AMD-Arab joint venture now making all of AMD's processors, an x86 license when Intel and AMD settled their outstanding litigation last week. Nope. What Intel and Globalfoundaries have is an "agreement" that nobody will explain past Intel saying "it protects our IP" because it's "confidential." We are ... (more)

RightScale To Support Azure

Azure Cloud on Ulitzer RightScale, the cloud manager, plans to support Windows Azure and let customers deploy RightScale-managed applications and take advantage of Azure's particular properties. It said it would support Azure infrastructure-level services through its new Service Management API like it does Amazon and Rackspace and give Azure users access to other cloud platforms. It did... (more)