The ChannelWeb post "Know Your (Cloud) Rights: Gartner Inks Cloud Computing Bill of Rights" explains the details of the bill of rights recently devised by the Gartner Global IT Council for Coud Services. The document was developed to define the key rights governing cloud computing and thereby to facilitate the business relationship between providers and their customers.
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How best to make money as an Oracle partner is the question; by selling Oracle/Sun servers to Oracle software partners running on other than the Sun platform may be the answer, as rumor would have it from the Avnet Technology Solutions Partner Summit 2010 at the end of July. This is the suggestion in the interview on ChannelWeb with Oracle execs Tom Wagner, Jim Standard and Lydia Smyers. Scott Campbell is the reporter.
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The big game channel changer for Oracle this year is Exadata, says John Gray, group vice president of North American alliances and channels at Oracle, who spoke to Steve Burke, editor/news of Everything Channel on the Exchange Solution Provider segment of CRNtv's ChannelWeb. "Our pipeline has exploded around Exadata," reports Gray. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison more specifically told Reuters: “Right now our pipeline is approaching $1 billion for a fairly new product. I think in a few years the Exadata business will be measured in the billions of dollars per year of new sales. If you will, our iPhone.”
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The Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) partner enablement resources now include new training resources and Specializations for core Sun and Oracle technologies, the company announced. Value-added resellers (VARs) can get trained and specialized in fifteen new areas, including Oracle Solaris, SPARC, Chip Multithreading (CMT), Sun Storage 7000, and Sun StorageTek Tape Libraries.
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Oracle-Sun and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) will end the long-term reseller agreement HDS originally had with Sun on March 31. Announced by HDS via an email to its solution provider partners on March 2, the company wrote "With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Hitachi Data Systems and Oracle agree that the time is right to evolve this relationship into one reflecting the priorities of the new company."
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