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Oracle Launches Exalogic Cloud Software for Java Deployments

Oracle on Dec. 8 launched Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2, a new-generation Java application infrastructure for virtual machines.The announcement was made at OracleOpenWorld Brazil in...

SAP StreamWork Eyes Enterprise After Google Wave Crash

SAP is trying to do something interesting and challenging, facilitating its real-time collaboration play in the wake of Google Wave's own disastrous crash.The business...

Oracle Rolls Out New Intel, SPARC Blade Servers

Oracle officials, a week after rolling out the latest offerings from their SPARC road map and once again pointedly challenging rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM,...

Salesforce.com’s Heroku Acquisition a Play for Ruby Developers

Salesforce.com has signed a definitive agreement to acquire cloud-application company Heroku for approximately $212 million. Heroku offers a cloud application platform for Ruby-based applications."The...

Salesforce.com Unveils Database.com, Enterprise Database Built for Cloud

Salesforce.com is using its annual Dreamforce conference to unveil Database.com, its new standalone cloud database for IT pros creating applications. The company claims that...

Google Chrome OS Samsung, Acer Netbooks Coming in 2011

Computers running Google's Chrome Operating system won't ship to consumers until the second half of 2011, with netbooks slated to come from Samsung and...

Google eBooks Paves Way for Ad-Supported Media Cloud: Analysts

Analysts believe Google's eBooks service could shake up the market Amazon and others have cultivated if Google chooses to create an ad-supported media cloud...

ActiveState Launches Amazon EC2 Cloud for Python Developers

ActiveState has announced it is delivering its ActivePython Community and Business Editions of its Python development environment as part of a pre-built Python-centric AMI...

Facebook Revamps Profile Pages to Highlight Photos, Tell People’s Stories

Facebook Revamps Profile Pages to Highlight Photos, Tell People's Stories by Clint Boulton Facebook Facebook has made several changes to its social network design in the last...

How to Exercise Security Diligence When Outsourcing IT

When outsourcing IT, your company is giving up its operational control; therefore, it is more critical than ever to exercise IT security diligence and...