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Jul 30, 2010, Dell and HP to Certify and Resell Oracle VM, OEL and Solaris

Oracle announced on 29 July 2010 that Dell and HP will certify and resell Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their x86 systems and customers will have full access to Oracle support.

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Jul 29, 2010, Building cloud application businesses on the Oracle Platform for SaaS

Live Webcast on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET on how to build, deploy and deliver SaaS applications that leverage Oracle Business Intelligence (BI).

Presented by David Novak, Executive Vice President of Sales & Business Development from SPS Commerce, and Kevin O'Brien, Senior Director, ISV & SaaS Strategy for Oracle's Worldwide Alliances & Channels organization.

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Jul 28, 2010, Virtualisation ROI rises, cloud confusion steals spotlight

A report in June by IDC estimated that cloud-based services accounted for $16 billion of the approximately $2.5 trillion in global spending on IT in 2009 and forecast this number would rise to $55.5 billion by 2014-12 percent of all spending on IT. However, many companies who might go to cloud-based IT, are "suffering from cloud confusion," according to a report from Forrester Research.

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Jul 26, 2010, Oracle Enhances Tape Storage Product Line

Oracle announced high availability and capacity enhancements to its StorageTek tape libraries and drives on July 26 2010.

The scalable capacity of the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System has increased from 70,000 to 100,000 tape slots and now features redundant electronics to help customers manage growth, increase availability and reduce risk.

Oracle's StorageTek LTO-5 tape drives now have 1.5 terabytes of native capacity and are supported on StorageTek tape libraries. Coupling the LTO-5 drive with the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System provides a native storage capacity of up to 150 petabytes in a single tape library.

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Jul 26, 2010, Terabyte-sized Java Apps Now Possible

The latest release of Ehcache, the Java caching software distributed by Terracotta, is able to pool a terabyte of memory for a single application and its data. This terabyte of memory can be run from as few as 10 servers according to the company.

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Jul 25, 2010, The Link Between Data Warehousing and MDM

New research from Information Difference shows an increasing focus on implementing master data management to support both existing and new data warehousing initiatives.

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Jul 21, 2010, Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Forum

Explore how the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager enables business-driven IT management on Friday 23 July 2010 from 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Sydney.

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Jul 21, 2010, Oracle R12 EBS Patching Webinar

Recording of webinar for the Latin America and New Zealand/Australia Oracle User Communityon best practices for patching the Oracle R12 E-Business Suite environment.

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Jul 20, 2010, What keeps the CIO awake at night?

Video blog from Frank Buytendijk of Oracle.

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Jul 19, 2010, Celent Names Oracle a Leader in Global Core Banking Sales

Oracle has been classed as a leader in core banking sales for the 12 months ending September 30, 2009 in Celent's Big Leagues Table which ranks vendors on the number of new name core banking deals.

The Celent Big Leagues Table rankings include both the value of the deals and an adjustment for the geographical location of the implementation.

Oracle led the rankings in all the regions except for Western Europe and the report notes that they had a clear advantage in their traditional African and Asian markets, with deals ranging from large banks to small cooperative financial institutions.

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