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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled his company’s entry into the private cloud computing system battles on Sunday, upping the competitive stakes between Oracle and rivals like IBM and Hewlett-Packard. He showcased the Exalogic Elastic Cloud, a system containing 30 servers, each loaded with two six-core processors for a total of 360 processor cores. They are [...]

Amid tensions over ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd’s move to Oracle, HP announced a new series of systems on Sunday for running Oracle applications on a private cloud. Hurd left HP last month following a scandal involving his relationship with a contractor and alleged falsification of expense reports. He was named co-president of Oracle on Sept. [...]

It’s not a Y2K-style crisis, but there’s only a four-year window until Microsoft ends support for Windows XP. The need to migrate from XP to Windows 7 “will create an extra budgetary and resource burden on companies from 2011 to 2012,” according to recent report by Gartner. The research firm estimates that large and midsize [...]

With its Cloud Manager software released on Monday, Novell hopes to address the vendor lock-in problem facing enterprises building private clouds. Cloud Manager allows IT staff to manage virtualized resources that may be based on different hypervisors, including VMware, Microsoft’s Hyper-V, and Xen virtual servers, all from a single management tool, according to Novell. [ [...]

Microsoft apologized to customers of its hosted software services for businesses after at least three outages over the past few weeks. “We aspire to deliver quality services, and in the last couple of weeks, we have fallen short of this aspiration,” wrote Morgan Cole, who said he is responsible at Microsoft for making sure that [...]

Leapfactor, an SAP partner and startup, today announced a cloud-based system to support mobile applications, including back-office custom applications for accounting and customer support. San Francisco-based Leapfactor also announced several “micro apps” available for free in Apple’s App Store for use with the iPhone and iPad . [ Get the best iPhone and iPad apps [...]

After setting up a cloud infrastructure, an organization needs tools to monitor that it is running as smoothly as planned. With this in mind, software provider Zenoss has customized its server and networking monitoring application, Zenoss Enterprise, for VMware’s newly released cloud management software, vCloud Director. [ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you need [...]

Hewlett-Packard has unveiled CloudStart, a package that includes hardware, software, and consulting services and aims to speed up the construction of private clouds, it said on Monday. CloudStart is offered by HP Cloud Consulting Services and will use the company’s Cloud Service Automation tools, which helps enterprises with their cloud installations and provides automation tools [...]

Motorola appears ready to do more development on top of Android, with its acquisition of 280 North, a company that develops Web applications. The deal happened “earlier this summer,” according to Motorola, and was first reported on Wednesday by TechCrunch. Motorola did not disclose the purchase price. [ Get the no-nonsense explanations and advice you [...]

The Windows Phone Developer Tools have been downloaded more than 300,000 times, Microsoft said, as the company prepares to offer a new application store and mobile OS. Microsoft is finalizing the timeline for the launch of its new phone platform, Windows Phone 7. It plans to release the final version of the Windows Phone Developer [...]