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The article analyzes how Cisco can energize the company - and its channel partners? An example: Create a channel campaign that gets Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized partners trained on UCS.

Server sales did very well in the first quarter of 2011, but the news for Oracle and Cisco are great as the two enjoyed exceptional performance for the quarter, according to a new report by IDC. Oracle boasted the second-fastest growth of the top five ve

The article discusses Oracle's strategy to offer IT executives, channel partners and cloud service providers the tools they need to launch public and private clouds on their own.

Oracle, Cisco Server Sales Heating Up: Oracle sold $773 million in server, up 13.6 percent from last year, according to IDC. Oracle now has 7.5 percent of the global server market.

Hot Applications For SaaS In Retail Dorf agrees that the agility of data access and analysis afforded by the cloud is fueling its adoption. Leveraging SaaS-based analytics tools, he says, allows retail tech shops to move away from mundane IT tasks and refocus their efforts on real retail work. "SaaS lightens the load on IT by removing the burdens associated with backups, audits, upgrades, and security management. Business insight afforded by SaaS-based analytics tools affords retailers a really good understanding of the data they already have," says Dorf. "As we add more analytics capabilities via the cloud, we can grant that access more quickly via automatic upgrades, which dramatically reduces the retailer's time to value." Because these tools are offered in a pay-only- for-what-you-use style fashioned after the utilities model, retailers can strategically and incrementally build on their data analytics initiatives at their own pace. "Retailers have been sitting on a lot of Big Data for a long time. SaaS-based analytics applies 'Big Science' to that Big Data, allowing merchants to finally extract value from it," says Dorf.

News are coming out of the Mobile World Congress that a bunch of tech companies teamed up to form the AppConfig Community.

News are coming out of the Mobile World Congress that a bunch of tech companies teamed up to form the AppConfig Community.