Mark Hurd: 'I felt Oracle was in a position to do something nobody else could do'

Source: The Telegraph

Hurd immediately embarked on a programme of aggressive cost-cutting and strategic discipline, and when he was forced out in 2010, the firm was in much better shape. He led another big merger, this time with the IT contr ...
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Insiders Bought These 2 Plunging Tech Stocks Last Week, And Two Other Buys And Three Sells

Source: Seeking Alpha

Insiders made noteworthy buys (see definition below) in four technology stocks this past week (May 21st to 25th, 2012), and sold three others. These were selected based on a review of over 1,600 separate SEC Form 4 (insider trading) filings last week ...
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Maxis customers get Loker service for free

Source: The Star Malaysia

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians are inseparable from their smartphones and tablets. These devices usually contain precious content such as contact lists, family photos or holiday videos, so losing these could be a personal disaster. Maxis Bhd is of ...
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IaaS: Renting On-Demand Technology

Source: CIO.com

Server virtualization has transformed corporate IT -- companies have enjoyed major cost savings and have gained flexibility and efficiency. But this has also led to a proliferation of virtual machines and servers that threat ...
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Quickbooks Online Outage Leaves Some Customers in Sour Mood

Source: CIO.com

IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) — Intuit's Quickbooks Online service suffered an outage this week that left "a small subset" of customers unable to access their data, but the company says the problems with the on-demand accounting softwar ...
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OpenStack Launch Partner NASA Grounds Development

Source: Wired

Will OpenStack be grounded now that NASA is no longer involved with developing OpenStack? Image: scazon/Flickr NASA is reported to be “withdrawing its participation” with OpenStack, which the space agency co-founded with Rackspace. K ...
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Intel Keynoting at Cloud Slam 2012 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo

Source: Bloomberg.com

Intel Keynoting at Cloud Slam 2012 Cloud Computing Conference and Expo Jason Waxman, General Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Group at Intel Corporation, to Deliver Headline Keynote Address at 4th annual Cloud Slam'12 Cloud Computing Conference in ...
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Are You in a Bubble?

Source: Hacker News

Many people are talking about IPOs and bubbles, because it sells. Let's jump in while the water is warm. I see the question "are we in a bubble?" asked pretty often these days, and I think it's the wrong question to ask. It's like ...
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IaaS: Renting on-demand technology

Source: ComputerWorld

Network World - Putting your faith in the cloud A can be a risky endeavor. A survey from earlier this year showed that of 600 large companies, only 27% were using public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. ...
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