Oracle Unveils the New Exalogic X3-2 Server

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison lifted the curtains up to reveal a couple of Cloud-based services, applications and software along with the new Oracle Public Cloud infrastructure, previews of its seven new Cloud Services and Oracle Database 12c, during the Oracle OpenWorld conference at San Francisco. Overshadowed by the vision to expand their business infrastructure with their new Cloud-based offerings, Oracle announced an updated version of its Exalogic enterprise server line - the new Exalogic Cloud X3-2 server. The company released the new Exalogic X3-2 engineered systems based on their recently announced Exalogic Elastic Clod Software 2.0 to expand their business applications.

Twitter Joins the Linux Foundation

Twitter being the most popular social networking site is now joining the Linux Foundation. Twitter uses and builds a fair amount of open-source software and therefore, this news wasn't too shocking for Twitter fans. According to Linux Foundation, Twitter is built on Linux and also open source software is core to its technology strategy. Twitter is also investing highly in Linux now, as the company develops and positions itself for the future.

Wanova a Desktop Virtualization Firm Raised $10M from Greylock Partners and Others

A turnkey desktop management cloud supplier, Wanova, has raised $10 million in series B financial support from Greylock Partners, Opus Capital and Carmel Ventures. It brings the total funding of the company’s to $23 million.

Security Problems Continues for Data Center Virtualization

Organizations need to take into consideration specific-virtualization security technology when upgrading their data centers instead of relying on current measures, for instance the trust firewall. As organizations gradually more use virtualization in their data centers, they are fetching far more aware in the will need for appropriate security to shield against threats, according to a new research report.