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Fritz Nelson
SAP CEO Tackles Tough Cloud Questions
October 12, 2012 08:36 AM
Jim Hagemann Snabe discusses SAP's ongoing transformation and takes on Oracle's version of the truth in this video interview from the InformationWeek 500 conference.
Fritz Nelson
Oracle's Great Stack Attack
October 08, 2012 11:06 AM
If Larry Ellison and his team delivered one message to customers during Oracle Open World it was this: We complete you.
Charles Babcock
HP's Decline: Customers Get Fresh Helping Of Uncertainty
October 04, 2012 11:06 AM
HP CEO Meg Whitman cites 'bloat' as barrier to turnaround, plans layoffs and slimmer product lines. One reality: customer trust runs low, even as cloud services gain traction.
Doug Henschen
Oracle Open World: 6 Rants and Raves
October 04, 2012 09:25 AM
Oracle's cloud vision and announcements on key features deserve praise, but we need to see more substance behind the promises and more reality in the claims.
Charles Babcock
Oracle Touts Cloud Flourishes, Trashes Salesforce.com
October 03, 2012 09:55 AM
At Oracle Open World, CEO Ellison lays on the rhetoric that Oracle's approach is safer than Salesforce.com's. Oracle customers will find his new cloud vision has a familiar bundle of enterprise software at its core.
Kurt Marko
Microsoft Hyper-V Keeps Pushing On VMware
October 01, 2012 07:07 PM
Watch out, VMware. Redmond wants a piece of the cloud market, but hypervisor improvements in Server 2012 can also boost reliability and DR in smaller shops.
Charles Babcock
N.Y. Times Data Center Indictment Misses Big Picture
September 25, 2012 11:22 AM
A New York Times examination of increasing data center use and its environmental impact focuses on aging enterprise data centers. A more important issue: How much environmental benefit can we reap from today's modern cloud data centers?
Seth Grimes
Twitter Helps Build Social Data Ecosystem
September 25, 2012 08:17 AM
Twitter's Certified Products Program is a step in the right direction toward improving data quality, analysis, and social business decision making. Let's hope Facebook and LinkedIn follow suit.
Kurt Marko
VCs To Startups: Get Thee To The Cloud
September 24, 2012 04:12 PM
Vegas data center confab shows technology, economics, and a cutthroat business environment shaping infrastructure hosting and services.
Fritz Nelson
Next Valley View: NetSuite And More
September 24, 2012 11:07 AM
Tune in Sept. 26 for the next episode of our live Web TV series, including chats with NetSuite's CEO, a banking IT innovator, and some ambitious startups.
Doug Henschen
Salesforce.com's Next Steps To Become The Next Oracle
September 24, 2012 09:57 AM
Salesforce.com is still tiny compared to giants like IBM, Oracle, and SAP, but there's plenty of room for fast growth in new markets. Here's what it needs to do next.
Jonathan Feldman
Why Software-As-A-Service Could Be A Dead End
September 24, 2012 09:06 AM
If enterprise apps all become SaaS, your software investment will have a very precise lifespan and return.
Laurianne McLaughlin
Salesforce.com's Benioff Preaches To New Flock: CMOs
September 21, 2012 09:04 AM
Marc Benioff wants marketing to be Salesforce's next $1 billion business. To get there, he's jumping right into the growing tension between IT and marketing execs.
Chris Murphy
Zuora: $82 Million Bet On 2 Big Ideas
September 18, 2012 10:03 AM
Zuora is the latest startup whose success hinges on customers' willingness to turn their business over to a cloud vendor.
Patrick Houston
Tech Startups Reinvent Basic Business Models
September 18, 2012 09:06 AM
Mobile, social, and local have been the hottest trends in tech. But TechCrunch Disrupt panel shows that the action today is in enterprise tech.
Kurt Marko
Bridging Hot And Cold Cloud Storage
September 06, 2012 10:11 AM
Pogoplug takes the chill off Glacier, turning it into a continuously replicated archive.
Doug Henschen
Pabst Brews Up Alternatives To BI Software
September 04, 2012 11:28 AM
Beer maker hopes to avoid data warehousing and business intelligence suites and instead rely on a mix of ERP-based reporting and cloud-based performance management.
Jonathan Feldman
'Secure' Cloud File Sync Is The Wrong Move
August 17, 2012 09:06 AM
Vendors playing to fears about the security shortcomings of Dropbox, SugarSync, and similar apps might as well be selling security blankets.
Kurt Marko
No Disaster Recovery Plan? No Excuse
August 15, 2012 05:55 PM
Hardware appliances tethered to cloud services provide enterprise-class protection on a startup budget.
Mathew J. Schwartz
Apple, Amazon Security Fails: Time For Change
August 13, 2012 08:24 AM
What will it take for cloud service providers to overhaul their customer identification mechanisms and finally get serious about social engineering attack vectors?
Doug Henschen
Will Financial Apps Be Next Cloud Growth Story?
August 06, 2012 11:01 AM
Security worries are a major obstacle, but Oracle and SAP see enough potential to provide their own cloud options.
Doug Henschen
SAP Overhypes Its Hana Sentiment Analysis
August 02, 2012 11:49 AM
SAP's rapid-deployment offering promises 'big data' analytics results in less than six weeks. I don't buy it.
Doug Henschen
SAP's Ugly (ByDesign) Baby Gets Prettier
July 30, 2012 08:21 AM
In a sign of progress for SAP's fledgling cloud strategy, SAP improves its Business ByDesign suite, scores a big customer over Workday and Oracle, and prepares a cloud-based financials product.
Cindi Howson
MicroStrategy Bets On Visualization, BI For Facebook
July 23, 2012 09:22 AM
MicroStrategy's latest release counts on warming interest in cloud-based business intelligence and hot demand for social data analysis.
George Crump
One Way To Avoid Cloud Outages
July 23, 2012 08:30 AM
Don't take chances with data availability. An onramping solution can help keep your customers--and your IT staff--happy.