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Oracle co-founder, chairman, and CTO Larry Ellison delivers a keynote at Oracle OpenWorld on October 22, 2018 in San Francisco.

Oracle Sees Stronger Sales Growth in Cloud Transition Oracle Sees Stronger Sales Growth in Cloud Transition

Oracle reported a strong sales forecast, signaling that it expects greater customer demand in its transition to becoming a cloud provider•Revenue from cloud services and license support, which includes maintenance fees for traditional software, grew 2.7 percent to $6.64 billion•Oracle’s new cloud and on-premises licenses sales fell 8.5 percent to $1.22 billion•The company’s founder Larry Ellison said cloud transition had been slow because it didn’t have good enough infrastructure until recently, but analysts question that explanation.

Dec 18, 2018

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Next-Gen Data Centers

As Deployments Kick Off, Edge Computing Startup Vapor IO Hires a COO As Deployments Kick Off, Edge Computing Startup Vapor IO Hires a COO

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Before You Start Building a New Data Center, Consider These Three Things Before You Start Building a New Data Center, Consider These Three Things

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Dec 18, 2018

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Next-Gen Data Centers

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Data Center Construction

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DNA

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UBS Said to Prepare Cloud Move to Secret Microsoft Data Centers

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Data Center Infrastructure Management

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Data Center Chips

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Data Center Chips

Dell to Return to the Stock Market Five Years After Buyout

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byIndustry Perspectives

Semiconductor

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A data hall inside Google's data center in Hamina, Finland

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