The rise of cloud computing has led to the reassessment of how both cloud and non-cloud systems approach security. Considering the complex and distributed nature of cloud-based platforms, security approaches that… Read more »
Magnusson worked as an engineering director for Google where he helped the search giant build out the Google App Engine. Maybe his expertise will come in handy as Oracle continues to… Read more »
Unless the Supreme Court steps in, companies like Oracle are set to own small pieces of code that are the basic building blocks used by developers in all sorts of technology… Read more »
The third quarter showed clear signs of Hadoop’s maturation and the industry’s maturity in working with it. Meanwhile, megavendors continued to build out their big data and analytics portfolios. Read more »
The specter of an HP-EMC merger loomed large over Monday morning’s Hewlett-Packard analyst call, which was held to discuss HP’s impending split into two public companies. Read more »
This week in cloud: It was all-cloud-all-the-time at Oracle OpenWorld as Larry Ellison again vowed that Oracle will lead the world in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Good luck with that says… Read more »
Oracle is helping customers carry their database technology investments to the cloud, step by step, as I reviewed in my last post. In this post we take a look at a… Read more »
I’ve written much in this space, and on the Gigaom blog, about YARN and its impact on how Hadoop will be used. Not very long ago, Hadoop was synonymous with the MapReduce… Read more »
While Oracle has a cloud platform that it’s been trying to spread to the masses for a few years, the biggest deal regarding the new cloud upgrade is supposedly the ability… Read more »