Oracle Acquires Cloud Marketing Player Responsys for $1.5 Billion

Marketing in the cloud is still hot.

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NetSuite Speeds Data-Center Rollout Amid NSA Spying

Cloud application vendor NetSuite Inc. is accelerating its construction of data centers in Europe as a result of the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping activities.

Oracle May Be Flat in Q2, but It May Be Warming Up for a Strong 2014

Sales may even fall when it reports earnings on Wednesday. But new products could fuel good news next year.

Cisco Is Keeping Its TV Set-Top Box Business, and That’s That

As growth targets slip, CEO John Chambers is resisting calls to unload a business he acquired in 2005.

Dell and Red Hat Will Announce a Big Cloud-Computing Alliance Today

Doing for OpenStack what they did for Linux more than a decade ago. You know how that turned out.

Egnyte Raises Almost $30 Million for International Expansion Plan

More money for cloud storage and collaboration.

Space Monkey Peer-to-Peer Digital Storage System Offers Better Backup

A peer-to-peer backup system called Space Monkey is a less-costly alternative to many hard-drive and cloud solutions.

Stealth Networking Startup VIPtela Raises $33 Million From Sequoia

Another secretive startup working on software-defined networks.

New Relic Taps Salesforce President Koplow-McAdams as Revenue Chief

The move confirms an ATD report from September.

Siri Gets Serious, Microsoft Gets Its Mojo Back and Everything Gets Encrypted in 2014

Annual predictions for the year ahead in tech from analyst Mark Anderson.