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Exadata for Retail

By David Dorf on October 30, 2009 11:45 AM

A year ago Larry Ellison announced Exadata, Oracle's latest attempt to get into the hardware business. It was followed by the announcement of Exadata v2 (video), which significantly improves upon the first version. I don't think that Oracle wants to...

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Son of Exadata

By David Dorf on September 16, 2009 6:28 AM

At last year's Oracle Open World, Larry Ellison announced Exadata, a storage server that is pre-tuned for data warehousing applications. The combination of hardware and software working closely together yields a great performance boost over traditional configurations. Exadata storage servers...

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Investments for Retail in a Down Economy

By David Dorf on February 27, 2009 11:18 AM

As continued proof that retail is taking it on the chin, About.com published their list of retail bankruptcies for 2008 and 2009. It contains well-known brands such as KB Toys, Linens 'N Things, Circuit City, and the latest victim Ritz...

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