Three things Oracle has done to become a big cloud player
Grazed from Network World. Author: Brandon Butler.
Oracle had a busy couple of weeks at the end of June, rolling out a new version of its database software and announcing partnerships with Microsoft, Salesforce.com and NetSuite. In doing so the company – who’s CEO Larry Ellison at one time bemoaned cloud computing – has almost overnight become a major player in the industry. Here’s why.
The moves are not just significant for Oracle; the partnerships that the company has garnered are significant to the partnering with Microsoft and Salesforce, too. And they’ll also reverberate across the industry to competing companies such as Amazon Web Services and SAP, predicts Holger Mueller, vice president at Constellation Research who recently published a report about these developments. “The bottom line: Oracle technology will play a fundamental role accelerating cloud adoption,” he writes…
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CloudBees Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced the acquisition of FoxWeave, a provider of cloud-based data integration services. The acquisition brings native data migration and synchronisation services to the CloudBees Platform, and simplifies the way developers can compose services and weave them together with PaaS-hosted application logic – or what CloudBees calls app-centric integration. The acquisition continues the company’s strong growth with the addition of a key platform investment.
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Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, today announced that Dick Williams, president and chief executive officer of Internet security firm Webroot, a global Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of internet security products for consumers and businesses, has joined the company’s board of directors. Currently an outside director of 3VR and LogRhythm, Williams brings more than four decades of executive and operational leadership experience working with high technology, software and digital media companies, to Cloudera’s board.
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