Oracle is pushing forward with its effort to bring its enterprise applications to the cloud. During a call with press and analysts on Monday, Thomas Kurian, executive VP of Product Development at Oracle, highlighted his company’s ongoing cloud application efforts.…
While SAP’s past is strongly rooted in on-premises software, its future likely rests in the cloud. That became clear when SAP reported its fourth-quarter fiscal 2012 and full-year results yesterday, highlighting a number of key trends including the cloud. SAPs…
There has been a lot of Big Money invested in Big Data in recent years. You can now add Big Data orchestration startup Zettaset to the list. Zettaset recently announced that it has raised $10 million in a new series…
HP first tried its hand at integrated hardware and software appliances last year with the first iteration of AppSystem appliances. The company is now updating its AppSystem architecture with a new scale-out approach that enables enterprises to easily add capacity…
There is a lot of money backing the open source Drupal content management system (CMS). Acquia, the lead commercial sponsor behind Drupal, today announced its latest round of venture financing. The new E round, worth $30 million, will help the…
Salesforce.com is widely considered a pioneer of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, having helped create it from the ground up. And judging from its fiscal third-quarter earnings call, the company is the sheriff of SaaS Town. For the quarter, Salesforce reported…
Open source business intelligence vendor Jaspersoft is updating its commercial platform with a new release. The Jaspersoft 5.0 release includes new HTML5-based visualization capabilities that aren’t yet available in the company’s community open source release. The Jaspersoft 5.0 release goes…
Big Data is big business — a truth that Cloudera CEO Mike Olson understands better than most. Olson is no newcomer to the technology business. Prior to Cloudera he ran Sleepycat Software, which maintained the Berkeley DB database. Oracle acquired…
Buying business intelligence software has traditionally involved purchasing both the software and the hardware required to run it. That’s not the model that business intelligence (BI) vendor MicroStrategy is now taking, however. MicroStrategy this week launched its Cloud Express service…
The Apache Hadoop project is at the core of the Big Data revolution. One of the key enablers for Hadoop is a technology known as MapReduce that is very powerful – but also slow. Cloudera, one of the leading commercial…