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Little bit of news around Node.js today, Amazon has added support for Identity Federation, and Oracle customers might want to pay attention to a fundamental flaw that's been discovered in

As prominent as cloud computing has already become in today's enterprises, it's amazing to realize that the world's reference standards are only now catching up with the concept. On Tuesday,

Years ago, Oracle's responses to reports of SQL injection attacks against its database servers literally were focused on media damage control - ensuring that not too many customers get scared

Larry Ellison's dream for Oracle has always been to deliver "out-of-the-box" functionality - software that was less distinguishable from devices, devices that were vehicles for delivering software. So Ellison's vision

With the announcement by Oracle of their acquisition of RightNow earlier this week, it has brought about some strange bedfellows on how their mutual customers can connect up disparate CRM

If anyone knew the real reason behind the much-hyped kerfuffle a few weeks ago between Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and his would-be OpenWorld conference guest, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, she

Just last Tuesday Oracle acquired CMS company FatWire and data quality software vendor Datanomic. Today Oracle bought Pillar Data, a SAN storage company majority owned by Oracle CEO Larry

Oracle recently published details of the Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, a set of recommendations and best practices for building Oracle certified private cloud infrastructure stacks. It

Amazon has added Oracle to its lineup of Web-based database services in the cloud. Starting today, you can bring up Standard, Standard One or Enterprise Editions of Oracle 11g Release

Oracle's sales increased 37% to $8.76 billion last quarter, according to Bloomberg. Cloud computing gets some of the credit for the revenue jump, causing a surge of interest in

According to Analytics Monk the terms "oracle aws" and "amazon rds" have been trending amongst developers over the past few days. So Amazon.com's announcement that Oracle Database 11g will

EMC Greenplum has pulled a YouTube video it produced that depicted Larry Ellison with a gift box tied to the fly of his pants. It was supposed to be a

A few factors make Microsft Dynamics CRM Online a player in the social CRM space that deserves serious notice. Microsft Dynamics CRM Online is available in 40 languages. Regional

Oracle released a private cloud managment API called the Oracle Cloud API to the Oracle Technology Network. today. The specification is available here (PDF). The company also submitted the

Salesforce.com is a cloud computing company but when it comes to work, San Francisco is its home. CEO Marc Benioff is a native of San Francisco. He has donated $100

The concept of the cloud in a box is breaking down as more people come to question how Oracle defines elasticity. At Oracle Open World last week, the company repeatedly

At a media event on Monday night at Open World I broached a question to one of Oracle's public relations people: "So, what company is Oracle buying in the social

We had one of those rare days. It almost felt like two politicians, going back and forth, playing to the crowd. But these were not fat cat politicians. They were

A few weeks ago, we posed this question for our weekly poll: What are the top five worst terms for cloud computing? "Cloud in a box," came in first out

Terracotta and companies in the new world of distributed data environments have an increasingly important role in the cloud computing universe. Simply due to the fact that they are forcing

The big guns of the technology world are sometimes like that aging baseball team making another run for the World Series. The baseball team's roster is filled with stars in

The data boom is making analytics companies some of the hottest properties in the market. That's evident from today's news that EMC is buying Greenplum, a data warehouse, big data

Cloudera is working with Quest Software to provide a connector into Oracle for Hadoop, the open-source, distrbuted data management platform. The connector, called "Ora-Oop," provides a way to transfer data

Where there are definitions, there are reasons to bend them. Outsourcing, the practice of bringing outside organizations to manage a part the business process, is one of those concepts. In

The VMforce news we've reported on today makes it likely game for our weekly poll. What we want to know is your view on how significant the VMforce platform will