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At Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) OpenWorld 2015, Thomas Kurian, Oracle President of Product Development, discussed new cloud services that show Oracle’s deep innovation across cloud applications, platform, and infrastructure services. Kurian also demonstrated several services on stage, showing how easily people can tap Oracle’s cloud services.

"Any person, anyplace in the world, with just a browser, can access our cloud and get access to all these amazing new product innovations we’ve delivered," Kurian said during his keynote Tuesday in San Francisco. Oracle’s cloud innovations span infrastructure, analytics, management, integration, database, and more…

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Oracle’s executive chairman, Larry Ellison, spent a good deal of time talking about his long-time competitor, IBM, during his keynote speeches at his company’s tech conference this week in San Francisco. That’s not unusual. Ellison loves a bit of trash-talking and usually throws an entertaining barb or two at his rivals.

But this time, he’s been almost nostalgic about IBM, while also depicting IBM as a nobody when it comes to cloud computing. This is mostly on the basis of how often Oracle salespeople compete against IBM’s for a customer contract. During his two keynote speeches this week, he offered this backhanded complement:…

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Linux remains the go-to choice for the cloud, with 75 percent of enterprises reporting they use Linux as their primary cloud platform. Existing solutions often require a manual process to execute or are complex and expensive, which means the availability of many of these Linux servers is at risk.

Ravello Systems, the world’s leading nested virtualization company, announced today that LightCyber, a leading provider of Active Breach Detection solutions, is the latest cyber security company to use Ravello’s security sandboxing in the cloud. Ravello enables enterprises to simulate attacks on life-like user environments, but inside a secure capsule in the cloud.

Companies like LightCyber, Symantec (Hacker Academy) and SimSpace are among those using Ravello to push simulated security attacks to new levels. Using Ravello, LightCyber is able to employ a scalable system for sophisticated hacking simulations, helping organizations stay on top of the latest enterprise security threats.

Ravello’s nested virtualization and software-defined networking technology makes it easy to recreate entire data centers with existing virtual appliances on leading public clouds such as AWS and Google, complete with data-center-like networking. One of the emerging use cases for this technology is security testing in a real-world setting in the cloud — at a fraction of the cost of dedicated hardware.

HyTrust Inc., the Cloud Security Automation Company, has just been recognized as “Most Innovative” in the cloud category at Intel Security Focus 2015 in Las Vegas, NV, as part of its “Partner of the Year” awards. This recognition comes on the heels of HyTrust winning the “Best of VMworld” award in September for Security, Compliance and Virtualization.

“HyTrust is honored to be recognized for our innovations enabling organizations to virtualize and adopt cloud while meeting their security and compliance requirements,” said President and Co-Founder, Eric Chiu. “We know as well as anyone the challenges associated with securing cloud and virtualized infrastructures, and our goal is to continue to build on the trust we’ve established with Intel, its partners, and most of all our customers.”

A veteran technology marketing executive with over 20 years of experience in high-tech, Lueders has managed worldwide, integrated marketing programs, lead generation campaigns and associated marketing operations that have repeatedly increased demand and generated revenue.

"Canonical continues to expand our SDN ecosystem to ease the deployment of OpenStack with an SDN. Midokura is an Ubuntu Cloud partner, and today Midokura Enterprise MidoNet is available to our customers through the MidoNet Juju Charm. The simplicity and agility inherent in MEM’s distributed architecture is now easier to deploy with OpenStack," said John Zannos, Canonical VP of WW Alliances and Ecosystem. "With this seamless integration in place, Ubuntu OpenStack and MEM will be deployable in minutes using Juju and the MidoNet Juju Charm."

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Over a number of years there has been a long and hard fought battle to secure the ability to‘accelerate anywhere’any data type to, from and across a cloud area network (ClAN) to allow fast access to applications, or to secure data as a part of a back-up and archiving strategy. According to Claire Buchanan, chief commercial officer at self-configuring infrastructure optimise networks (SCION) vendor Bridgeworks, this battle is still ongoing. With the use of traditional WAN optimisation techniques the long drawn out battle has still to be won.

“It may not long be the case as with the advent of machine intelligence and technologies such as SCION, The problem has been that of small pipes and the inability to accelerate data. Therefore, the use of deduping and compression tools have been the only way to gain a perceived performance improvement”, she explains…

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Conference Concepts today announced announced its new event for data center architects and their ecosystem. The SDI Summit highlights the positive impact of SDI on Big Data, cloud computing, real-time analysis, and the storage explosion, all without busting budgets or adding staff. The Summit will be on December 1-3 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Registration is now open at the event website.

SDI helps data centers respond easily and rapidly to new requirements and business needs. With it, a data center can use both local and cloud resources to roll out new services and applications quickly. The center can also scale to handle ever-increasing amounts of data. The Summit begins with day-long pre-conference seminars to bring attendees up-to-date on key topics…