 | | Doug Henschen | | | Oracle Appliance Upgrade Goes Beyond Database Oracle on Tuesday released the Oracle Database Appliance X3-2, a new version of the vendor's hardware-software combo aimed at midsize companies and departments of larger organizations. But don't think of this as just an upgrade. As before, ODA has a pay-as-you-grow licensing option that lets you unlock and pay for only the compute cores that you need. But with the new software virtualization option (courtesy of Oracle VM), you can license and "pin" cores to any computing load, not just database capacity. So, for example, you could use two cores for a homegrown application, four cores for database server use, two cores for Web server use, and another four cores for application server duty. The new release will let Oracle customers and ISV partners use the appliance as a data center in a box, suitable for running bank branches, hotels, retail stores, and other remote operations. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS | | | |  | | INSIDE THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF INFORMATIONWEEK: GET (TRULY) SOCIAL Companies must build more social networking bridges to customers, suppliers and partners -- not just among internal users.
Also in our new, all-digital issue: Instead of worrying about overseas hackers, worry about the sorry state of your information security defenses. DOWNLOAD NOW FREE (Registration Required) | |  COMMENTARY Salesforce.com Caps Record Year, Eyes Acquisitions By Doug Henschen Salesforce.com reported solid financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013, ended January 31, but if there's one area where the company needs to bulk up to keep growing quickly in the year ahead, it's in marketing. Company CEO Marc Benioff acknowledged as much during a conference call with financial analysts last week. Yahoo Flap Misses The Bigger Point By Rob Preston Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is under fire for doing the unthinkable: She's requiring company employees to actually work at the workplace. While critics complain that Mayer is being less than hospitable to working parents, especially mothers (Mayer herself gave birth to her first child last fall), she didn't take the job to break glass ceilings or champion work-life balance. Her job is to turn Yahoo around, and she's taking her best shot. This isn't about exercising control; it's about setting a tone for change. Did Yahoo's Mayer Slap Social In The Face? By Debra Donston-Miller Social business applications are designed to enable workplaces to collaborate no matter where employees are located, including their homes. So, is Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's recent edict that all Yahoo employees must work in the office a slap in the face of social business? Or is it a sign that social business--and social media in general--has ironically made human beings less social, with Yahoo among the first of many companies that will take course-correcting action? VMware CEO Causes Public Cloud Stir By Charlie Babcock Why did VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger sound so dead set against the public cloud model in his remarks to partners at VMware's Partner Exchange Conference in Las Vegas February 27? "We want to own the corporate workload," said Gelsinger. "We all lose if they end up in these commodity public clouds. We want to extend our franchise from the private cloud into the public cloud and uniquely enable our customers with the benefits of both. Own the corporate workload now and forever. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By ChrisvLS: "It's interesting that the Customer Company positioning seems aimed at competing with Oracle's Customer Experience (CX), powered by the RightNow acquisition. If these two are going to square off competing for the platform to power all customer contacts (sales, marketing, service), Salesforce is going to need more marketing product and Oracle more mobile and social product. Adobe positioned this way for a while with its Customer Experience Management platform (disclosure, that was my old job)." In reply to: Salesforce.com's New Message: It's The Customer, Stupid View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS
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