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Oracle beats expectations; books strong financial earnings

The company was also pleased with its non-GAAP results, which discount certain nonrecurring costs.
“We executed substantially better than we expected on both the top and bottom line for the quarter,” Oracle CFO Jeff Epstein said in a statement. “We grew Q4 non-GAAP operating margins by a faster than expected 240 basis points to over 51 [...]

How Google and Amazon’s Clouds will kill Data Centers worldwide

The Elephant in the Room: Google
Google has been using the cloud as one of its strategies to poach in areas that Microsoft has traditionally owned. Gmail and Google Apps are quietly pecking away at Microsoft Office, and no one seems to mind – or even notice – that these are cloud-based applications.
Of course, these are [...]

Early examples of innovations on top of Cloud platform emerge

As I’ve said previously that innovative solutions are coming. They will capture the imagination of masses. So if we are building the cloud, we are simply laying the foundations for the future by pre-announcing the tombstones of some of the industry we are today seeing aggressive contraction and mad M&A activity.
So you are in the [...]

IDC: Storage spending on the decline; Dell and Hitachi perform better

It reports that iSCSI sales, a relatively small segment of the market, did well, posting 40.5 percent revenue growth. Natalya Yezhkova, IDC’s Storage Systems research manager, said: “Price sensitivity was a big factor in the healthy growth of iSCSI SAN, the only installation environment segment that ended the quarter in positive territory.”
Dell led the iSCSI [...]

Citrix Synergy 2009: Simon Crosby explains why Citrix is ready now!

Simon not only happens to be a close friend but also a true visionary who believes in things that I firmly believe as well. Be focused, be relentless and only then they will come. He is achieving that slowly but it is coming and yes they (read: you, me and the whole consumer lot) are [...]

ITIC’s excellent Cloud Computing survey; win an iPod!

My researcher/analyst girl friend, Laura DiDio [ex Yankee Fellow Researcher and now running her own shop ITIC] has setup an excellent survey. Do fill this simple and easy survey and let her know what you think of it. Fill in comments and you could win an iPod!
Go here to fill in the survey, its one [...]

Panda unleashes first ever Cloud Antivirus solution!

I will be talking to Panda exec team soon myself. What I’ve seen from the embargoed ppt, I am impressed already.
Here are the perfortmance metrics for the internal beta tests!

Why is this better? Because installed antivirus programs–typically from Symantec, McAfee, CA–inserts multiple programs into the operating system that intercept files at different layers and scans [...]

Cisco’s play: Will it do an Oracle with Citrix takeover?

One thing I can tell you for sure. If Cisco does come close to acquiring a virtualization vendor, it may go for Citrix. Why? Check out these opportunities:
Hardware business is going to be commodity soon as software gets resilient (Grid-aware)!

Software, remember that word. Simply if you want to believe me or any of my close [...]

2020: World-wide Data Center Crisis?

We wrote an IEEE paper where I will be talking about it in June. We are proposing an extensible architecture in which we propose to connect the APIs (Power/MDM APIs, Data Center APIs and Consumption-based Open Standards API etc) through and through the whole value chain. With more and more Data Centers being built and [...]

IEEE Vision Paper on “Smart Metering the Clouds”; Attend the workshop in The Netherlands

We are proud to have delivered our first research paper and have it accepted by the IEEE council. This paper, which will soon be published by the IEEE, is about CSER and about energy evangelism. We focus and propose our model that revolves around two spectrums. Spectrum one is about the advanced metering techniques that [...]