3 Things Oracle has Done to Become a Big Cloud Player

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	3 Things Oracle has Done to Become a Big Cloud Player   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. Read More   WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation & WWT     A Deep Dive into the Converged Infrastructure of EMC VSPEX   In this Solution Guide, World Wide Technology (WWT) reveals its data center cloud model in-depth and presents solutions around cloud computing with a standardized product set and advancing to an integration stage Read Now In this Issue How to Evaluate Moving Legacy Mission-Critical Apps to the Cloud Why Netflix is One of the Most Important Cloud Computing Companies U.S. Cloud Firms Suffer From NSA PRISM Program What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking Software-Defined Networking Explained RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Prolexic Technologies     Are your anti-DDoS devices helping the bad guys?   Your DDoS mitigation equipment can make SYN reflection attacks worse. While it is designed to challenge and validate connection requests, the anti-DDoS equipment will repeatedly challenge requests from spoofed IP addresses. This creates problematic backscatter toward the spoofed server. Learn how to block these attacks in this new white paper. Download the full DDoS attack report >>> How to Evaluate Moving Legacy Mission-Critical Apps to the Cloud   The flexibility and scalability of the cloud can make migrating mission-critical applications a tempting proposition, but availability can become a serious issue. Read More   Why Netflix is One of the Most Important Cloud Computing Companies   Netflix's Open Source Software strategy started on June 23, 2011. One of the company's senior software engineers had an idea: "At some point, I think it would be valuable to open source the Zookeeper library I've written," Jordan Zimmerman wrote to his bosses, talking about a piece of customized code he helped develop. "Does Netflix have a policy on that?" Read More   WHITE PAPER: Red Hat     A single vendor cloud strategy might not be the best course   A recent IDG Quick Poll of U.S. CIOs found IT leaders seek alternative providers of virtualization technology as well as technology to manage a heterogeneous virtual environment. Learn More U.S. Cloud Firms Suffer From NSA PRISM Program   Revelations of the NSA's massive electronic surveillance program give fuel to foreign firms and governments that warn of privacy risks of doing business with U.S. cloud service providers. Read More   What CIOs Need to Know About Software Defined Networking   Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualization to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant configuration and planning. But SDN and network virtualization may still be too immature for prime time. Read More   Software-Defined Networking Explained   Understand how SDN will change everything in 10 easy steps. Read More
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