Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle may be playing a game of semantics with us, but one of its top executives told eWEEK at OpenWorld Sept. 21 that it’s now possible to buy instances of the company’s public cloud and run them in a private data center. The new item is called Cloud@Customer, and it was introduced Sept. 21 […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle, which will celebrate its 40th year in business next June 16, has been hit over the years—fairly or falsely—about being a place where lock-in is Job No. 1, where Exadata and databases went first class, and where open source and cloud services traveled in steerage for years. Things have changed over at the […]

San Francisco-based Trifacta, which optimizes large data sets in preparation for analysis, has launched a new version of its specialized software.Trifacta v4, released Sept. 20, scales up the platform’s capabilities to enable more users and more diverse data sources—and to run them within more cloud environments.Trifacta is known as a “data wrangler.” This refers to […]

Imagine having one full terabyte of storage capacity on an SD card that you can use in your smartphone or camera. You can stop imagining, because that card is real and on its way to availability. And yes, 1TB is about two or even three times the storage capacity of two typical laptops. SanDisk, inventor […]

Pyze, a new-generation intelligence and marketing platform designed for mobile app publishers, has added a new tier of services to its Growth Intelligence product. The new Pyze Hypergrowth tier is available for apps with up to 1 million monthly active users. The service package utilizes advanced intelligence to segment users based on a multitude of […]

It’s official: There’s now a lot more one can do with a Twitter session than simply type in 140 characters and send it out for your followers to read. Last May, the San Francisco-based social network announced that improvements were in the works. As of Sept. 19, the improvements have been deployed in the social […]

Larry Ellison used to focus the power of his 136,000-strong Oracle army into skirmishes with competing business software companies, such as SAP, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Workday and Salesforce. Now the Oracle co-founder and CTO has graduated to gunning for Amazon Web Services and is cocksure that his company will eventually snatch significant market share from the […]

Like any good parent, John Newton simply wants the best future for his corporate offspring, Documentum, but he’s quite worried about it right about now. When someone starts a company, especially a first venture, it occupies a special place in the entrepreneur’s heart for life. Documentum is that first-born child Newton and Howard Shao started […]

FinancialForce, a go-to cloud ERP provider on Salesforce.com, on Sept. 15 introduced FinancialForce Billing Central, which it claims is the only cloud application that unifies billing, revenue management and accounting operations on the Salesforce Platform. Billing Central’s strengths include intuitive-to-use processes and enabling visibility across the entire customer lifecycle, the San Francisco-based company said. New-generation […]

SoftNAS, which specializes in software-defined, cloud-based, network-attached storage, revealed Sept. 15 that U.S. Signal has incorporated its Cloud for Service Providers platform into its cloud storage infrastructure. Grand Rapids, Michigan-based U.S. Signal provides unmetered data transfer in and out of the storage array and seamless integration into its cloud hosting products and private WAN services. […]

If one were to chart where Oracle’s several businesses have been and are headed in the future, the chart would show one arrow headed decidedly up and to the right and two others slipping markedly down and to the right. The Redwood City, Calif.-based database and data center middleware giant is selling cloud services faster […]

Dell Technologies—which became an official corporate entity on Sept. 7, 11 months after Dell announced plans to acquire EMC—has wasted no time coming out with its first software-defined storage product from the combined company. This one is the ScaleIO Ready Node, an all-flash, software-defined offering released Sept. 15 that runs on Dell EMC PowerEdge x86 […]