By David A. Kelly When business growth means that your current business applications platform deployment can no longer support your business, consolidation is certainly worth consideration. By consolidating business applications with Oracle Exadata, organizations are simplifying their information technology; lowering costs; and improving system performance, scalability, and reliability. Find out how Praxair and Alliance Data are benefiting by running their applications on Oracle Exadata. By Karen Shamban Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, MySQL Connect, and several other events took San Francisco by storm, September 29–October 5. This content-focused week—opening with MySQL Connect on Saturday and closing with the final day of Oracle Customer Experience Summit @ OpenWorld the following Friday—offered a wealth of learning and networking opportunities, with a little rock, blues, ska, and alt-country added in for good measure. Relive the conference—or see what you missed—and start planning your trip to San Francisco next September. By David Baum At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle unveiled new releases of Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Learn how these engineered systems deliver hardware and software engineered to work together and in-memory, speed-of-thought compute power to private and public clouds. |