With the goal of simplifying Big Data for companies, Oracle provides a way to use SQL to query a wide variety of enterprise data sources

Release supports Microsoft Windows, Red Hat and SUSE Linux, OpenStack

The deal is the largest acquisition Oracle has made since the Sun Microsystems purchase in 2010

Four- and eight-socket servers feature new Xeon chips co-developed with Intel that combine features from three different Xeon products

VMware launches vCloud Hybrid service for disaster recovery, The Hartford selects IBM to build private cloud infrastructure, and Oracle adds database backup and storage cloud services to its portfolio of Platform and Infrastructure services.

Fujitsu and Oracle accelerate Fujitsu M10 SPARC servers, Violin Memory is selected by iTalkBB to improve performance for on-demand video streaming, and Scality integrates Aspera FASP high performance file transfers for large media content...

Oracle (ORCL) has added new features and improvements to its Oracle CPQ (Configure, Price, and Quote) Cloud, which was enhanced last year after acquiring Big Machines software.

The new flash aware NVM Compression Interface from Fusion-io doubles the capacity of ioMemory flash and boosts performance for Percona Server and Oracle's MySQL and MariaDB databases.

Introducing the latest version of its distributed key-value database, Oracle (ORCL) announced Oracle NoSQL Database 3.0.

Oracle acquires marketing cloud provider BlueKai, Pivotal is joined by industry leaders to establish an open governance model for Cloud Foundry, and VMware launches its vCloud Hybrid Service in Europe.