Launches Oracle Database 12c Release 2 as a cloud-only service

Infrastructure software with two decades of history is finally making the transition

Gains staff, skills and a beachhead for a European assault

We talk about airline outages, weird flash storage and Nervana

We talk international politics, artificial intelligence and the confusion surrounding the future of Emerson Network Power

Editorial team at DCD talks about data center fires, cyber wars and network sabotage

The company wants to take on public cloud giants like AWS and Azure

We talk about Pokémon, Microsoft and the DatacenterDynamics Awards

Some of the most interesting news this week points towards the French capital

The servers were thinking they ran out of flash storage

Supported by two separate data center locations

Good news for colocation and cloud providers, bad news for your in-house IT team

New open source project helps move apps between different types of data centers

Certified virtual machines make the in-memory database ready for production workloads

The Hawaiki Submarine Cable will enable direct access to the American markets

Open source developers will get free access to servers around the world

The facility will host government agencies alongside business customers

The service will compliment on-premise storage arrays

Proprietary MicroLatency flash modules promise high performance and ease of use

We talk open hardware, open source software and oxymorons

We look at news from the High Desert, and remember an American businessman who ran for president

The latest in a sting of deals that include Viatel and Stream Data Centers

A very practical look at the progress made by the OCP movement

Becomes the latest hosting company to offer infrastructure services