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Even today's most successful organisations will not survive the converged business future by merely doing the same things they currently do, only differently. What is needed is a shift to do different things. Ovum believes that rapid, assured and sustained business innovation is imperative to an organisation's success. IT leaders therefore need to effectively harness technological advances, cut time to market, and improve quality and performance.

Oracle is now taking the next step in optimizing portions of its application portfolio to take full advantage of the new X3-2 line. Oracle’s Fast Data approach to enterprise applications follows SAP’s release of SAP Business Suite and CRM on the in-memory HANA platform. Ovum believes that Oracle’s approach is a logical first step, and would like to see this eventually yield a new generation of application-specific, single-appliance engineered systems.

The recent VMware Forum 2013 in London provided a platform for VMware EMEA chief technologist, Joe Baguley, to reveal how VMware is addressing the challenges of transforming IT to an as-a-service paradigm. This transformation is based on three key pillars.

Actian, the vendor formerly known as Ingres, has suddenly put itself on the map through rapid-fire acquisitions of Pervasive Software, ParAccel, and Versant Software. Actian's goal is to assemble a mini-stack that includes a data integration engine and different data platforms for different transactional and analytic use cases.

The third iteration of the UK government's cloud store is about to go live, so what has changed and what is likely to happen next?

Few topics have lately drawn more hype and scrutiny than Big Data. Having originated with Internet firms, Big Data has captured enterprise attention with examples that show how organisations, from public sector to financial services firms, telcos, and media derived insights that improved customer retention, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation.

Oracle recently held its third annual Industry Analyst World conference at its Redwood Shores headquarters, and it came as no surprise to Ovum that business analytics featured as one of six major track themes (aligning nicely with Big Data and Analytics Super Theme for 2013). Oracle's business intelligence and enterprise performance portfolio is undoubtedly impressive in both breadth and depth...

We believe it is time for governments to elevate their policy thinking about cloud services to confront their ICT strategy conundrum. They must address increasing fiscal constraints and disappointment with existing approaches to boosting ICT productivity with an approach that enables cross-agency sharing.