After EU blessing, Oracle’s new motto: Software. Hardware. Complete
By Tarry Singh at 21 January, 2010, 11:55 am
I like it actually. Oracle is telling the world today that it is no more a software company. This is the webcast invite I (and many of you out there) got. If anyone who thinks further tech industry consolidation isn’t coming, then you must be dreaming. Citrix is soon going to snapped up as well. Transforming the [...]
Read More >>Newsflash: Oracle likely to fire 50% of Sun’s 27,000 employees!
By Tarry Singh at 15 January, 2010, 4:27 am
These are real hard times for Sun employees as they have already gone through some massive cuts but this one will take the cake for sure. Sun dumped 3,000 workers in October. Back in November 2008, it announced plans to drop 5,000 to 6,000 workers. At the time, it had around 33,400 workers – that [...]
Read More >>Get Sun’s Unified Virtual Storage Simulator for VMware and VirtualBox!
By Tarry Singh at 15 October, 2009, 10:51 am
Got this email from Sun and looks very exciting. I’ll be testing this out soon. Try it yourself! Dear Tarry Singh, The Sun Storage 7000 is the ideal storage platform for a wide range of infrastructure solutions, including the MySQL based applications. This high performance, cost-effective system enables you to build flexible, highly reliable enterprise [...]
Read More >>Exadata 2: Oracle+Sun announce fastest OLTP box on the planet!
By Tarry Singh at 17 September, 2009, 10:40 am
The world’s first OLTP Database Machine was unveiled today by Oracle Chief Executive Officer, Larry Ellison; and Sun Executive Vice President John Fowler. The Exadata Database Machine Version 2, made by Sun and Oracle, is the world’s fastest machine for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP). Built using industry standard hardware components plus [...]
Read More >>It’s Official: Oracle gets into the server racket as well!
By Tarry Singh at 10 September, 2009, 11:37 am
Cisco’s timing of the UCS might seem rather unfortunate and all the tie up with a secret JV with EMC might really back-fire if that specific consulting division is not able to make any inroads to a now seriously blocked market. Welcome yet another giant to the server racket: Oracle! Tough market and Larry is [...]
Read More >>Virtual Box 3.0 released; Reddit fans are excited!
By Tarry Singh at 1 July, 2009, 2:06 pm
Look at it yourself. and here are the features This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: * Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual) * Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see [...]
Read More >>VDI joint-venture: Sun and Ringcube integrate desktop virtualization stuff
By PrasenJit Sarkar at 29 June, 2009, 11:20 am
Sun’s SunRay technology is pretty cool and is definitely the best stuff to look at, after all Sun has been using it for a long time for its corporate employees. The partnership will bring to enterprises that are using Sun’s Sun Ray VDI technology the ability to more effectively and cheaply roll out personalized virtual [...]
Read More >>Oracle/Sun releases Virtual Box 3 beta with cool gaming level graphics!
By Tarry Singh at 22 June, 2009, 11:00 am
Well it has loads of stuff that will make you wonder someday: “Why didn’t we invest in Virtual Box’s OVF strategy to deploy our Cloud desktop/instances?” Version 3.0 will be a major update. The following major new features were added: Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only) Windows guests: ability [...]
Read More >>Oracle’s play at JavaOne: Build office suite from OpenOffice using JavaFX
By Tarry Singh at 4 June, 2009, 12:35 am
I told many of my analyst buddies to wait a few weeks before making any of the WTF statements on: “Why did Oracle grab Sun?” “Why did Oracle go for Virtual Iron?” “Why will Oracle go for Quest/VMlogix?”* * Speculative Forecast Java’s acquisition and quick big-daddy forward-looking announcement say one thing for sure: Larry knows, [...]
Read More >>Oracle Chief Ellison suggests Oracle netbooks are underway?
By Tarry Singh at 4 June, 2009, 12:09 am
This is what you get when you piss big software houses. Now Larry, irrespective of what Oracle will eventually deliver, has Sun a silicon valley darling with new-found love and loads of goodies under his hood, to make any statement that can throw competitors off-guard. That could mean a lot of things to lot of [...]
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