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Innovation. Excellence. Leadership. Oracle customers,
partners, and technologists continue to excel and bring
new meaning to these words. In 2011, Oracle recognized
outstanding achievement through the Oracle Excellence
Awards—with categories including CIO of the Year,
Technologist of the Year, Data Warehouse Leader of
the Year, Eco-Enterprise Innovation, Java Innovation,
Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation, and Proactive
Support: Champion of the Year. —By David A. Kelly, with
additional reporting by Patty Waddington
Cover: Sloan Schwartz
C is for Cloud / 52
Designed to manage data center and cloud
environments, Oracle Enterprise Manager has
consistently focused on business-driven IT
management. The latest release, Oracle Enterprise
Manager 12c, continues this focus and expands
its cloud management capabilities to deliver
a complete solution for setting up, managing,
provisioning, and charging back for Oracle-based
enterprise clouds. —By David Baum
Open to the Public / 27
Oracle Public Cloud provides a self-service,
subscription-based model for building,
deploying, and running applications in the
cloud. Amit Zavery, vice president for Oracle
Public Cloud, provides details on this new
offering. —By Caroline Kvitka
