BIG BLUE - International Business Machines, which ruled computing in the age of the mainframe, is targeting $40 billion in annual revenue from the cloud, big data, security and other growth areas by 2018. The aggressive target, set by IBM executives at the company's annual investor meeting in New York on Thursday, is the latest […]
Regulation On Cloud Security May spur SaaS Use in Health Care
Governments may need to tighten the regulatory screws on SaaS vendors to make them more transparent and forthcoming about their security practices. Until then, it will be hard for healthcare companies in particular to fully trust cloud software vendors, according to speakers at the EU-U.S. ehealth Marketplace and Conference in Boston on Wednesday. Depending on […]
Oracle Announces Oracle Data Cloud
Oracle Data Cloud is designed to help business users drive smarter, more informed decisions across the enterprise; Oracle has announced Oracle Data Cloud and two new DaaS offerings, Oracle DaaS for Marketing and Oracle DaaS for Social. Oracle Data Cloud is a DaaS platform that includes Oracle's leading data products and the newly acquired BlueKai […]
Oracle Transition to Cloud Could Take Three Years
As noted, Oracle’s CEO mentioned that the transition to cloud software by the vendor won’t happen overnight. As the market leader, the database company must transition it’s application systems in which big companies and other enterprises pay upfront for one-year or longer licenses to use the proprietary software designed by Oracle, which customers maintain in […]
Oracle VM 3.3 Gives Spark Users Same Features as X86
The latest release of Oracle's software for managing virtual machines offers the same set of features to Sparc users as those who manage virtual machines on x86 servers. "With Oracle VM 3.3, a big part of the improvement is on the Sparc side," said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle senior vice president for Linux and virtualization engineering. […]
Microsoft, Salesforce Said to Discuss Cloud Partnership
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) are close to an agreement that will enable customers of Microsoft’s cloud computing service to use Salesforce’s customer management programs signaling a thaw between two longtime rivals. The partnership will make Salesforce’s program available on Microsoft’s Azure service, said the people, who asked not to be identified because […]