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	Virtualizing Oracle software: Don't pay for what you don't need Squeezing software cost savings from virtualization projects is tricky for lots of reasons, but can be particularly challenging when it comes to Oracle databases. Here's why, and some tips to help. Read More : VMware HP University Virtualizes Mission-Critical Oracle Databases Wanting to migrate from a proprietary and expensive platform, Indiana University virtualized its most demanding Oracle Databases on x86 servers and discovered that VMware could handle their largest transaction-processing workloads while dramatically reducing costs and increasing flexibility. Read Now In this Issue Salesforce.com ties Force.com to Heroku to bolster app development Darlene Storm: Need to crunch 150 teraflops per second? Meet first-of-a-kind supercomputer Catalyst Google must delete personal data upon request, court says New buys for EMC may come in security, big data WEBCAST: Silanis Technology Is your company ready for Electronic Signatures? Are you convinced of the benefits of e-signatures but unsure whether your organization is ready to take advantage of the technology? Are you trying to assess the true effort and cost involved in automating your processes with electronic signatures? Learn More Salesforce.com ties Force.com to Heroku to bolster app development Salesforce.com has made another step toward unifying its family of application development technologies with Salesforce1 Heroku Connect, which synchronizes data between its Force.com platform and Heroku. Read More Darlene Storm: Need to crunch 150 teraflops per second? Meet first-of-a-kind supercomputer Catalyst Want access to Catalyst, a first-of-a-kind supercomputer capable of 150 teraflop/s -- that's a trillion floating operations -- per second? The Cray CS300 high performance computing cluster has 324 nodes, 7,776 cores and is available for collaborative projects. That crunching power is set to analyze YouTube videos and other untapped data for American industry and academia. Read More : Axeda Corporation An Executives' Guide: The Machine of the Future This eBook has been developed to help executives understand the value of M2M and IoT to enterprises. We will include a framework CEOs can use to include connected products in their corporate strategies and strategic initiatives. For those new to the topic, this eBook can serve as a primer on the business case for investing in M2M and IoT. Learn More Google must delete personal data upon request, court says Google and other search engine providers can be ordered to delete links to outdated information about a person published on the Internet, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Tuesday. Read More New buys for EMC may come in security, big data EMC may be in the market for security and data analytics acquisitions as it builds out what it calls a federation of businesses among VMware, RSA Security, Pivotal and the company's traditional storage operations. Read More
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