Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social and cloud

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	Oracle's Hurd brims with confidence about SaaS, social and cloud To hear Oracle President Mark Hurd tell it, the $37.1 billion hardware and software company is well ahead of competitors on any number of fronts, from transitioning customers to SaaS and the cloud, to incorporating social technology into its products. Exuding supreme confidence in Oracle's emerging cloud services, hardware/software combos such as exabyte storage and its latest buyouts, Hurd said in a recent interview with IDG Enterprise that the main thing keeping him awake at night is "customers making decisions and we're not there. We've got to make sure we're there." Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The iEverything Enterprise Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time. Learn more. In this Issue Pentaho wants to make Hadoop easy Perfect storm for managed service, co-lo and cloud industries Free OpenStack test bed brings ARM into the cloud Office 2013: What we still don't know Shopaholic Cisco buys Virtuata Globalized IT operations pay off Datapipe launches largest CloudStack deployment Aggressive pricing eases SMB transition into hosted VoIP One of the world's largest spam botnets still alive after suffering significant blow RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn Provide instant remote support with LogMeIn Rescue With LogMeIn Rescue, you can start a support session in just 60 seconds. Connect 24/7 to PCs, Macs, smartphones and tablets. You'll get in, solve the problem and save the day without ever leaving your desk. Try it free today. Pentaho wants to make Hadoop easy Everyone wants to be in on the Big Data gold rush. But the fact is using Hadoop and many other Big Data tools takes some specific skills and experience that put the power of big data analytics beyond the reach of many us. Pentaho, the open source powerhouse in the business intelligence space wants to change that equation. Pentaho's visual user interfaces allow even non-programmers the ability to... Read More Perfect storm for managed service, co-lo and cloud industries Even with the cloud computing market growing at more than double the pace of the managed service and colocation industries, analyst Philbert Shih of Structure Research told a conference of hosting providers Monday that their sector is still well poised for growth into the future. Read More Free OpenStack test bed brings ARM into the cloud OpenStack backers have added a free ARM-based environment for testing the open source cloud deployment project. Read More WHITE PAPER: Cisco Cisco Bring Your Own Device This paper explores the challenges mobile devices create for IT, offers key considerations before adopting a BYOD strategy and highlights a comprehensive architecture from Cisco that enables freedom of choice for users while affording IT security and control. Learn more. Office 2013: What we still don't know We know that Microsoft Office 2013 emphasizes cloud integration with new Office 365 subscriptions for home users, a greater focus on touchscreens, and Office on Demand virtualization, but what about the things we don't know? Microsoft is keeping quiet about several key issues, including pricing, release dates, and whether the software giant will be including Android and iOS devices in its Office 2013 rollout. Read More Shopaholic Cisco buys Virtuata Cisco added to its long list of acquisitions after recently plucking off Silicon Valley-based Virtuata. Virtuata is a provider of virtual machine and cloud security and will be incorporated into Cisco's data center group, which is run by former Q-Fabric chief David Yen. No financial details were given but the company only has 15 people, so it's likely to be a relatively small deal for Cisco. Read More Globalized IT operations pay off By interlocking business services, companies gain customer knowledge, efficiency and speed. The payoffs are huge, but laying the groundwork for IT standardization is no easy task. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Bring Your Own Mobile Devices to School In today's educational environments, more and more students, guests, and faculty are bringing in their own Wi-Fi devices into the school's network. This paper discusses the challenges and solutions IT administrators are facing and how to address the security and management of the multiple devices being introduced into the wireless/wired network. Learn more. Datapipe launches largest CloudStack deployment Managed hosting and cloud computing provider Datapipe has launched the largest geographic deployment of an Apache CloudStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud, the company says. Read More Aggressive pricing eases SMB transition into hosted VoIP We recently caught up with Greg Brashier, the chief marketing officer (CMO) at Virtual PBX, and he told us that his company's hosted VoIP solution continues to grow market share. For example, since the company launched its Virtual PBX Complete business VoIP portfolio February 2011 through May 2012, the company saw a 49.9% rise in traffic and it has since continued to grow. Read More One of the world's largest spam botnets still alive after suffering significant blow One of the world's most active spam botnets -- Grum -- was crippled after two of its command and control (CnC) servers hosted in the Netherlands were taken down, according to researchers from security firm FireEye. Read More
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