Microsoft and Oracle have reached an agreement to make their two cloud computing services work together with high-speed links between their data centres, targeting big business users and uniting against cloud leader AWS.
Oracle unveils range of machine learning based updates to cloud enterprise resource management (ERP) and human capital management (HCM) suites.
Oracle's latest advancement of its cloud computing strategy is being called out as a "faux cloud" by a consultant and author, and as the latest example of cloud-washing, or the practice of vendors misusing the ubiquitous technology term.
The single biggest news coming from Amazon Web Service's first user conference recently was the launch of the company's newest service, Redshift, a Cloud-based data warehouse tool. And it prompts the question: Is the Cloud the right place for data warehousing?