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GETCO Telecommunication Limited, Melbourne IT Limited and SK Telecom were among the communications and media companies and other service providers that selected or extended their use of Oracle applications and hardware in the third quarter of Oracle's fis

In an article focused on the benefit of being able to move a company's data to different types of storage media based on the value of the data and the cost of the storage, Oracle's automated tiered storage schemes were mentioned including: Smart Flash Ca

"The customer is in the driver's seat. We're just trying to get in front of what she wants." - Karen Katz, president and chief executive officer of Neiman Marcus Group Ltd. LLC, speaking about technology at the Oracle Industry Connect Conference.

The Aug. 15 edition of GreenTechMedia includes the following article discussing the future of the smart grid. The article highlights smart grid expert Andres Carvallo's presentation from The Soft Grid 2012 conference, and notes his comments regarding utilities' adoption of cloud computing and the utility "big data" challenge. The article mentions that Austin Energy is working on with Oracle on an IT-based project. The article also includes a comment from Oracle Utilities' Linda Jackman noting that utilities have their own reasons to keep as much of their IT work in-house as possible, but investor-owned utilities in particular are under pressure to spend on IT capital expenses, which they can recover in rate cases, rather than on operational expenses like cloud services that do not offer such guaranteed payback.

The Aug. 14 edition of GreenTechMedia includes the following article highlighting the ten predictions and trends for what the utilities industry will see in the software and smart grid market in coming years identified by the keynote speakers at GreenTechMedia's The Soft Grid 2012 conference. The fourth trend sited in the article notes the increasing role of open-source platforms in terms of distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers. The article notes that legacy players in the industry, such as Oracle, are building solutions around new open-source platforms.

"...We're really marrying up purchase behavior within the stores, purchase behavior in the digital channels and other external information to put together more relevant assortments. It's a great partnership between our merchants and our e-commerce business to bring it to life."

Highlighting Linda Jackman's comments from a keynote address at The Networked Grid conference that Oracle is placing a larger focus on opportunities with water utilities.