For the last six weeks, Oracle and HP have been publically airing their dirty laundry in a court case that resulted from Oracle’s 2011 unilateral decision to drop support for HP’s Itanium-based servers. On August 1, Judge James Kleinberg issued his decision and order in the case, which amounted to yet another in a string of losses in court for Oracle.
Rackspace Open Cloud Takes on Amazon AWS
The vendor rolls out three Open Cloud offerings–Cloud Servers, Control Panel and Cloud Databases–based on the OpenStack cloud project. Can Rackspace turn OpenStack into the de facto standard? What does Open Cloud have that AWS doesn’t? Find out.
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Oracle Acquires Xsigo, Fills Networking Technology Hole
Virtual networking startup Xsigo Systems brings Oracle expertise in building high-performance clusters and virtual networks. Meanwhile, Cisco increasingly finds itself alone in data center networking.
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Using Cisco’s OTV and LISP to Improve Application Availability
Data center and server failures can lead to high-profile service outages. Two Cisco protocols– OTV and LISP–seek to minimize the effect of failures.
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LexisNexis Smart Meeting Gives Businesses an Edge
Business is about relationships. Customers choose to do business with companies that seem knowledgeable of their unique industry, and invested in their success. LexisNexis Smart Meeting is a new service that gives companies an advantage when competing for business.
An IDC (IDC is the research arm of PCWorld’s parent company, IDG) survey from 2011 found that sales and business professionals are often unprepared for initial customer meetings. In order to demonstrate knowledge and provide value, it’s important to be prepared with information about the prospective customer, and to be aware of current events and breaking news that impact the company.
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The Importance of Inbound QoS Grows
As SaaS and cloud adoption grow, the need for organizations to take the reins and manage inbound QoS on their own has never been greater.
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The New Olympic Sport: Information Security Attacks
Redouble patching and end-user education to avoid getting burned by information security attacks tied to current events like the Olympics Games.
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Why Mountain Lion Got Me to Finally Try Apple Mail
I’ve been using an 11-inch MacBook Air as my primary computer for ten months now, but I’d never even opened up the Mail app until today. However, there are some interesting new features in Mac OS X “Mountain Lion” that I wanted to check out.
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Calling Xsigo Software-Defined Networking Doesn’t Make It So
Oracle snapped up Xsigo today. The technology is a great fit for Oracle clusters, but it’s not software-defined networking.
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The Importance of Inbound QoS Grows
As SaaS and cloud adoption grow, the need for organizations to take the reins and manage inbound QoS on their own has never been greater.
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