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• Oracle Leads The Pack As Converged Infrastructure Q2 Sales Surge
  7:35 PM EST Thu. Oct. 03, 2013
  Worldwide sales of converged infrastructure solutions, or integrated infrastructure and platform solutions in IDC parlance, rose 50 percent in the second quarter compared to the year before, according to a new IDC study.
• Pivotal Makes First Big Move, Acquiring Mobile App Dev Firm Xtreme Labs
  7:37 PM EST Wed. Oct. 02, 2013
  Pivotal, the EMC-VMware-GE joint venture helmed by Paul Maritz, has acquired its first company -- a mobile app development startup that works with Microsoft, Apple, Google and BlackBerry.
• Software, Hardware, High-Speed Sailing: 20 Scenes From Oracle OpenWorld
  4:00 PM EST Tue. Oct. 01, 2013
  Oracle OpenWorld, now one of the world's biggest IT conferences, was more interesting than usual thanks to drama around Oracle Team USA's America's Cup win grabbing attention between all the hardware, software and cloud news.
• Microsoft's Ballmer Gives Tearful Farewell In Last Company Meeting
  4:13 PM EST Mon. Sep. 30, 2013
  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage in his final company-wide meeting to give another loud, energetic public appearance and a tear-filled thank you to Microsoft employees.
• 10 Key Takeaways From Oracle's Financial Analyst Briefing
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Sep. 30, 2013
  Key financial metrics, Oracle's product strategy and CEO Ellison's views on cat videos and The Internet of Things were on the agenda.
• 10 Hot Technology Startups For September
  2:00 PM EST Fri. Sep. 27, 2013
  From the latest software for handling big data to visual development tools to software for managing content in e-commerce systems, there's no shortage of startups with innovative technologies this month.
• 5 Companies That Came To Win This Week
  10:00 AM EST Fri. Sep. 27, 2013
  For the week ending Sept. 27, CRN looks at IT companies that brought their 'A' game and made moves to beat out competitors.
• OpenWorld: Oracle Expands x86 Infrastructure Reach With Dell Relationship
  7:04 PM EST Wed. Sep. 25, 2013
  The expanded Dell-Oracle relationship could be an opening for Oracle to take advantage of a top x86-based server vendor to expand its reach in the cloud, an analyst said.
• Oracle Cloud Gets New Compute, Storage, Database Services
  10:30 AM EST Wed. Sep. 25, 2013
  The Oracle Cloud now has a wide range of new services, and the company is making them available to solution providers on a resell or referral basis.
• Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle All-In On Big Data
  1:50 PM EST Tue. Sep. 24, 2013
  Regardless of whether customers have experience with big data or not, they can use Oracle software or engineered systems to use Hadoop to manage big data, either directly or through software tools they are more familiar with.
• Oracle OpenWorld: Ellison Touts New In-Memory Database Technology
  10:42 AM EST Mon. Sep. 23, 2013
  Oracle's new in-memory database technology promises to increase database query speed by 100 times or more, along with double the transaction performance, said CEO Larry Ellison at Oracle OpenWorld.
• The 2004 Homeland Investment Act: Ripple Effects
  9:40 AM EST Mon. Sep. 23, 2013
  Under the act, businesses were given a one-time deduction of 85 percent of U.S. taxable incomes for extraordinary dividends received from their controlled foreign corporations, with some limitations.
• Overseas Acquisitions, Overseas Cash?
  9:20 AM EST Mon. Sep. 23, 2013
  Overseas cash has helped fund a number of foreign acquisitions for U.S. IT vendors. But is it the best use of the cash for these companies?
• Overseas Profits And The U.S. Tax Rate: Why IT Vendors Say Their Hands Are Tied
  9:00 AM EST Mon. Sep. 23, 2013
  Multinational IT companies say the high overseas tax rate is holding back U.S. economic and jobs growth and hindering their ability to compete. The U.S. government begs to differ. We look at the big picture.
• 20 Odd Tech Startup Names And The Real Stories Behind Them
  10:00 AM EST Thu. Sep. 19, 2013
  As more startups show up on the enterprise tech scene, finding a good name is getting harder. So, some are getting creative. Here's a look at 20 examples of startups that went outside the box.
• Amazon Hit With Friday The 13th Cloud Glitch, But It's Not A Horror Show
  8:08 PM EST Fri. Sep. 13, 2013
  Amazon experiences yet another cloud glitch affecting EC2 customers, but the company makes sure to keep everyone up to date on its service status page.
• Salesforce's Oracle Hiring Spree Continues As 17-Year Vet Fernicola Joins Ranks
  5:31 PM EST Thu. Sep. 12, 2013
  The path from Oracle to Salesforce.com is well-worn, and longtime enterprise sales guy Anthony Fernicola has become the latest to travel it.
• EMC Hires Away Execs From Microsoft, Oracle For Isilon Unit
  8:07 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  EMC has gone poaching to staff up its Isilon Systems network attached storage unit, bringing in storage veterans from Oracle and Microsoft.
• Report: Microsoft Investors Pushing Ford's Mulally, CSC's Lawrie As CEO Candidates
  5:28 PM EST Tue. Sep. 10, 2013
  Does Microsoft need a turnaround of the sort that Alan Mulally pulled off at Ford, and which Mike Lawrie is trying to achieve at CSC? Apparently, some top investors think so.
• SAP Head Of Global Channels Leaves Company
  4:45 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  Eric Duffaut, formerly president of SAP's global ecosystem and channels, has left the company after nine years.
• Movers And Shakers: Here's Who Made Gartner's 2013 Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant
  4:00 PM EST Mon. Sep. 09, 2013
  While Amazon is leading the cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service pack, a number of smaller players are making inroads with innovative technology, and in some cases, marketing. See who made the list.
• 15 Cloud And Virtualization Products Fueling Buzz At VMworld 2013
  10:00 AM EST Tue. Aug. 27, 2013
  As VMware moves deeper into storage and network virtualization, its ecosystem partners are showing off a deluge of new products that promise to make IT operate more efficiently -- and faster.
• VMware Preps Software-Defined Data Center For Its Star Turn
  12:00 PM EST Mon. Aug. 26, 2013
  The term "software defined data center" is still pretty nebulous to many technology companies, but VMware is hoping to change that at its VMworld conference this week.
• Microsoft Taps New Worldwide Support VP As 9-Year Vet Gordon Departs
  10:02 AM EST Mon. Aug. 26, 2013
  Barbara Gordon, who spent 19 years at Sun Microsystems before coming to Microsoft, is leaving after nearly a decade, possibly for a job at EMC.
• Get Your Popcorn Ready: Microsoft's Search For New CEO Is Under Way
  7:49 PM EST Fri. Aug. 23, 2013
  As Microsoft looks for a new CEO to replace the departing Steve Ballmer, many industry watchers expect the choice to come from outside the company.