Oracle transforming into cloud company
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – Oracle CEO Larry Ellison bunked his keynote today for a climactic America’s Cup, but executive vice-president for product development, Thomas Kurian, ably picked up the ball and made three new cloud announcements he...OpenWorld: not just tech and yachts
Mark Davison at Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco – The America’s Cup and OpenWorld are not the only reasons Oracle is in the headlines this week – local TV news stations have been prominently featuring a lawsuit that a San Francisco strip club has brought against the...Big data set to go mainstream
Big data investments in 2013 continue to rise, with 64% of organisations investing or planning to invest in big data technology compared with 58% in 2012, according to a survey by Gartner. However, less than 8% of survey respondents have actually deployed. “The...Channel central to Acer’s expansion plans
Kathy Gibson reporting from Amsterdam – Acer has made a commitment – coupled with major investments – to the commercial market, aiming to become a serious contender in the B2B environment. As a historically channel-centric company, it has developed a partner...Acer focuses on education
Kathy Gibson reporting from Amsterdam – Education is a focused market area for Acer, and one that it is aggressively pursuing across the EMEA region. Walter Deppeler, senior corporate vice-president of Acer, explains that the company has set up a focused...