The XSi Data Center Blog:

Cloud services, be they private clouds, public clouds, or even traditional hosted services are themselves just as vulnerable as ordinary data centers to infrastructure problems of water, power, access, and adequate disaster backup.  Hurricane Sandy has taken an unexpected toll on Cloud services, highlighting the importance of picking the physical location of the underlying assets.

Remember back to your glorious childhood sibling fighting days?  Your mom would come in, break up the fight, and make you say you were sorry?  Well, Oracle released a statement last week that sounded a whole lot like a clenched-teeth, mommy made me say it apology.  Oracle’s statement went something like this:

It’s nothing new these days, but Oracle has been involved in yet another court battle.  This time, the Redwood City, California based Oracle was in Europe trying to prevent a German company from reselling Oracle software licenses.

After more than a week of deliberations, the jury in Oracle v. Google finally came back with a verdict over patent infringement on Wednesday.  Oracle claimed Googles Android tramples on its intellectual property rights to the Java programming language, but the jury disagreed and ruled that Google has not infringed Oracle Corps patents, putting an indefinite hold on Oracles quest for damages in a fight between the two Silicon Valley giants over smartphone technology.  But this is all a distraction from the real disaster at the heart of the company.