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…
Improved Oracle User Productivity Kit Standard and Professional 12.1
To help organizations maximize the return on their enterprise application investments, Oracle is announcing the availability of Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) Standard and Professional 12.1. With spending on enterprise software projected to grow 6.8% to $320 billion in 2014,…
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…
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…
Oracle Extends Cloud Portfolio with $5.3B Micros Systems Acquisition
Database giant Oracle today announced it will acquire hospitality and retail technology vendor MICROS Systems in a $5.3 billion deal aimed at bolstering Oracle’s enterprise cloud portfolio. Expected to close in the second half of 2014, the MICROS System deal…
Oracle Introduces Oracle Solaris 11.2 Engineered for Cloud
Oracle has introduced Oracle Solaris 11.2, a modern cloud platform that melds efficient virtualization, application-driven software-defined networking (SDN) technology and a full OpenStack distribution. This powerful combination of an enterprise-class operating system and other components creates a highly efficient, compliant,…
Oracle weaves Fabric for MySQL clustering
Oracle has released a framework that allows multiple copies of the MySQL database to work in tandem, making it easier for organizations to easily run live backup databases and scale MySQL across multiple servers. "The Fabric manages a farm of…
Oracle To Adopt In-memory Computing
Oracle could be gearing up to make an anticipated in-memory computing option for its flagship 12c database generally available after hyping it for the better part of a year, judging from an upcoming appearance by CEO Larry Ellison. On June…
Oracle Will Allow Customers to Swap Software for Cloud Services
Oracle will allow customers to convert money they're now spending on annual support for on-premises into software subscriptions for its SaaS (software as a service) applications, in a bid to block defections to competitors such as Workday and Salesforce.com. Dubbed…
Oracle Adds OpenStack to Updated Solaris
Oracle has introduced a Solaris update that includes a distribution of the OpenStack cloud management platform, promising an easier time for Oracle customers running mixed cloud environments. Solaris 11.2 integrates several OpenStack components, including the Horizon dashboard, Nova compute module,…