For the third quarter in a row, Oracle, Corp. failed to meet many analysts’ expectations in its most recent earnings report. Is the software giant in trouble?

With International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasting that the worldwide software-defined networking (SDN) market for the enterprise and cloud service provider segments will grow more than eightfold to over $8 billion by 2018, Hewlett-Packard Co. yesterday announced the general availability of the SDN App Store in a move designed to give third-party developers the tools they need to develop and sell their SDN-enabled applications.

Cloudyn, Ltd. today announced it has received $4 million in a Series A financing round, bringing the total investment in the Tel Aviv, Israel-based cloud startup to $5.5 million since its founding in 2011. Cloudyn said it will use part of the funding to enhance the Cloudyn Platform, its flagship offering, a cost-monitoring and optimization solution for multi-cloud deployments. The startup said it will also use the funds to support more hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.

My latest in SiliconANGLE: This week, data pros are gathering at the 7th annual Tableau Conference to discover how to leverage their investment in data analytics and to discover what’s next in business intelligence. In this CrowdChat, data pros discuss how the size of data affects data visualization, the importance of making data visualization accessible to all workers, and other data topics expected to be covered at the Tableau conference.

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Another price drop seen in the cloud storage wars as cloud storage provider Dropbox, Inc. today announced that new Dropbox Pro customers will now get one terabyte (TB) of space for $9.99/month, a marked difference from the previous 100 gigabytes (GB) that $9.99 used to buy. The company said existing Dropbox Pro users will see the new space automatically updated in their account over the next couple of days.

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Aiming to redefine hybrid cloud data protection, IT storage solution provider EMC Corp. today announced RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines (VMs), a data backup and recovery solution for applications in VMware-based cloud environments. The announcement was made at VMware, Inc.’s VMworld 2014 conference in San Francisco this week.

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With two major acquisitions, multiple product announcements and management changes, server virtualization leader VMware, Inc. has experienced significant growth since its VMworld 2013 conference last August. Today, just days ahead of the 11th annual VMworld 2014 conference (which begins on Sunday), let’s take a look back at VMware’s major milestones of the past 12 months.