Last week in San Francisco, Orcale unveiled the company’s Cloud Computing solution. It includes partnerships with Intel to collaborate on technology and another with Amazon to run Oracle software on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Larry Ellison, Chairman, Founder and CEO of Oracle shared Oracles vision and opened the floor to questions. The first one question was: What is Oracle doing about cloud computing? Ellison smirked and then belted out his thoughts on cloud computing. Here’s a slightly edited excerpt as reported by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters.
“What the More»

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General Electric has decided to forgo a partnership with Google and has formalized a strategic partnership with Zoho for its 400,000 desktops. GE made the decision after a vigorous evaluation of both products. ”GE is a master at taking costs out of established processes, they do it relentlessly and continuously and they know how to evaluate and manage the risk of working with start-ups. Where GE break a trail, others are likely to follow,” according to Bernard Lunn of ReadWriteWeb.
A GE spokesperson who did not want to be identified said their decision was based around More»

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Cisco today announced the acquisition of Jabber, a provider of presence and messaging software. 
The acquisition will enable Cisco to embed presence and messaging services “in the network” and provide rich aggregation capabilities to users through both on-premise and on-demand solutions, across multiple platforms including Cisco WebEx® Connect and Cisco Unified Communications said the company. 
Cisco has to find new markets fast as its core market for router is slowing down. Hence the company has been on a buying spree acquiring Webex, Postpath and now Jabber and tranforming itself into a software play. The company has formed More»

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Amazon is planning to release a new service for content delivery by the end of the year. This new (and as yet unnamed) service will provide users with a high performance way to distribute popular, publicly readable content to customers all over the world, with low latency and high data transfer rates.
The new service was designed to meet the following goals:

Allow developers and businesses to get started easily, with no dollar or volume commitments. Like Amazon’s other pay-as-you-go services.
Be simple and easy to use. In fact, a single API call is all that’s needed More»

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Intuit has its eyes set on the software as a service (SaaS) market dominated by Salesforce.com, a move that will also take it into head on competition with Microsoft eventually.
Intuit announced a roadmap that boasted the Intuit Enterprise Suite, a set of on-demand applications that will link to QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions. “We want to have solutions that go significantly beyond accounting and bookkeeping,” said Angus Thomson, vice president and general manager of Intuit’s mid-market group, who added that the applications are being adapted to work with QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions that will provide a More»

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The Chinese symbol for crisis is composed of the characters for “danger” and “opportunity”; the implication being that a crisis is regarded not merely as a danger, but also as an opportunity. This is a quick snapshot of some of the dangers and opportunities facing various tech companies that rely on the financial services sector.
Clear And Present Danger
As of Monday, there were three less buyers of technology from the financial services sector. Technology vendors that rely on the financial services sector will see demand dry up. These vendors include Oracle, SUN Microsystems, Salesforce, More»

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About 69% of the U.S. online population use webmail services, store data online, or use software programs such as word processing applications whose functionality is located on the web. In doing so, these users are making use of “cloud computing,” an emerging architecture by which data and applications reside in cyberspace, allowing users to access them through any web-connected device according to a recent PEW Internet Report.
Overall, 69% of online users have done at least one of these six activities, with 40% of internet users having done at least two of them. This More»

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Most Internet users know what Webmail is. Many are familiar with YouTube, or at least the concept of watching videos online. But how many of them understand that they those applications live in the clouds?
A new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that the 69 percent of Internet users who tap into cloud-based applications generally don’t have much of an understanding of how those applications are actually provided to them.
They love the convenience and flexibility of being able to access the same content from any computer, but they have reservations More»

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Reuven Cohen, Founder of Enomal argues that Cloud computing isn’t a management model so much as a software delivery paradigm. What Apple has done with its App Store is show the world that the key to monetizing the cloud is in the delivery of the key applications and assets (music, video, ringtones) through a simple and accessible channel. In other words the cloud is a much like SaaS but with shelf space for applications.
With the series of recent announcements from a variety of mobile providers an exciting and potentially lucrative area in cloud computing More»

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Here is Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, shares a “Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn’t Do A Year Ago.” Many of the tasks on this list revolve around Google’s cloud offerings.  Some of these offerings were around a year ago. However the overall theme is that the cloud offers more flexibility today than it did a year ago. 
10. Everything on the go: OK, it’s been more than a year since the iPhone was first launched but Glotzbach’s point was that mobile computing has grown by More»

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