Oracle
Opening Keynote | An Enterprise Cloud for Business-Critical Applications
Infrastructure 2.0
 The term cloud computing was first coined in 2007. Enterprise Cloud Computing seems to have emerged as a term in 2009. It’s now 2012 and many are trying to ride the wave of Enterprise cloud computing or private cloud into the future. In a short four years, we’ve seen this phenomena of ...Feb. 18, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,042 |
 When it comes to procurement, any technology or service should be evaluated with a good set of criteria. Executive decisions should not be weighted solely on a single selection criterion such as price. This applies to any cloud computing service as well.
The twelve criteria listed bel...Feb. 18, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,645 |
 Depending on how analysts define it, the market for cloud products and services is growing anywhere from 19% (Gartner) to 27% (IDC ) per year. The growth in public cloud service usage is even more robust. At Amazon EC2, the leading cloud services provider (CSP), average daily instance ...Feb. 17, 2012 10:15 AM EST Reads: 638 |
 If you're like me, you rely on a host of cloud applications to get your job done each day. While the convenience and familiarity of apps built for the web is great, I can't help but notice the difference between each user interface (UI) I use. Currently, all cloud-based ERP software ve...Feb. 17, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 661 |
 We have to be careful that we don’t make change an end in itself. We have to remember that change is a means to the end of getting something we want that is different from what we have.
In the enterprise context, that something has been labeled in different ways. One is “alignment,” ...Feb. 16, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 491 |
 The cloud computing model of services-based computing has changed the way we not only ‘architect,’ ‘structure’ and ‘plan’ software applications, it has also changed the way we, subsequently, need to ‘deploy,’ ‘test,’ ‘monitor’ and ‘manage’ cloud-based applications.
Now that’s a lot of...Feb. 13, 2012 08:30 AM EST Reads: 918 |
 Conventional wisdom would have you believe that Public Clouds are inherently insecure, and that the only way to meet your organization’s stringent security requirements in the Cloud is to implement your own Private Cloud. Conventional wisdom, you say? Unfortunately, there is precious l...Feb. 13, 2012 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,428 |
 If you are a corporate executive contemplating adding some applications in a cloud computing network, be very aware of the vendors as well as your own internal system architects and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) when they start talking about cost-effective networks, cheaper componen...Feb. 10, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 798 |
 Designing an enterprise architecture is much like building a house. It's better not to leave things to chance.
To build a house right, you need a blueprint that details what is to be built, where, why and how based on the home owner's requirements (including cost). As the story goes, ...Feb. 9, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 643 |
 Yearly prediction blogs are so clichéd hence why I’ve always tried to avoid writing one. Despite this I’ve always made a mental note of technology, products or companies that I thought were going to really do well in the upcoming year. Back in 2008 I felt VMware were going to really ta...Feb. 8, 2012 03:44 PM EST Reads: 770 |
 In two separate recent announcements, HP has affirmed its goal of being the neutral supplier of choice for all things cloud.
Last week, HP delivered HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping Advanced (DDMA) Content Pack 10, bringing with the ability to better manage cloud instances across t...Feb. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 923 |
 There’s a new segment emerging in the industry around storage hypervisors. This is a simple idea that makes a lot of sense. We all understand the benefits that server hypervisor technology brought to servers in terms of utilization, flexibility and cost savings. The promise of a storag...Feb. 8, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 595 |
 Just as business and technology continuously evolves, so too will the scope and impact of data virtualization adoption and offerings. The offerings that best meet expanding access, optimization, deployment, ease-of-use, and governance requirements, along with the organizations that ad...Feb. 8, 2012 09:45 AM EST Reads: 1,053 |
 This week, I've been at The Open Group Conference in San Francisco. The theme was Enterprise Transformation which, in simple terms, means changing how your business works to take advantage of the latest developments in IT.
Evidence of these developments is all around. For example, whe...Feb. 8, 2012 05:15 AM EST Reads: 1,096 |
 In Part 1 I described how the cloud is revolutionizing load testing and the advantages it provides to ensure that your web applications perform well in production. We also looked at what capabilities you should seek out when selecting a load testing solution.
In Part 2, I will offer t...Feb. 7, 2012 05:00 AM EST Reads: 1,471 |
 Virtualization technologies have changed the ground rules on monitoring and managing your IT services.
Most of us in the IT operations world tend to focus on the nuts and bolts of the infrastructure – our key concerns are: How hot are my Linux servers? How many IOPS are happening to ...Feb. 6, 2012 03:00 PM EST Reads: 783 |
 With hundreds of organizations deploying data virtualization, a number of best practices have emerged. In this article, I will pass along the lessons these ten organizations learned along the way, as they are a valuable to help other organizations avoid common pitfalls and realize the...Feb. 6, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 850 |
 To date, Big Storage has been locked out of Big Data. It’s been all about direct attached storage for several reasons. First, Advanced SQL players have typically optimized architectures from data structure (using columnar), unique compression algorithms, and liberal usage of caching to...Feb. 6, 2012 05:30 AM EST Reads: 1,296 |
 Good data management, analytics, and helping to shape the goals of the business are keys to transforming the enterprise through impactful enterprise architecture (EA).
Coming from the siloed past in IT, companies are now moving to business service-driven processes across various resou...Feb. 2, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 805 |
 According to Wikipedia, a disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term i...Jan. 27, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 850 |
 “How resilient are the cloud computing solutions being sold today?” This appears to be a question not asked often enough by those who are immediately lured by the hyped positives of the concept before there is enough data to substantiate the claims made by the vendors as well as the do...Jan. 25, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,111 |
 There is a storm rising in the midst of enterprise networks today. It builds quickly and overtakes unsuspecting companies as the popularity of virtual initiatives causes data volumes on their networks to swell to proportions too large to access efficiently over existing bandwidth. The ...Jan. 23, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 1,118 |
 Advanced and pervasive virtualization and cloud computing trends are driving the need for a better, holistic approach to IT support and remediation.
Virtualization isn’t just server-by-server, but really impacts the entire data center. You need to think about it more holistically, par...Jan. 21, 2012 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,063 |
 The Open Group has announced this week the availability of two new industry standards to integrate fundamental elements of service oriented architecture (SOA) and cloud computing into a solution for enterprise architecture (EA).The new standards are: SOA Reference Architecture (SOA RA)...Jan. 19, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,102 |
 The SaaS/on-premises tension sets up a complex series of challenges for the ISV including questions of business models, maintenance of multiple product versions, and updating of software to name a few issues. With apologies to last century’s poet Robert Frost, smart money may rest on t...Jan. 17, 2012 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,030 |
 The topic of performance management in information technology circles has, by and large, been a relatively thorny issue at times. Part of the problem with post-deployment solutions is that code may be buggy and troublesome, functionality may not be close enough to original requirements...Jan. 17, 2012 07:00 AM EST Reads: 914 |
 2011 was a year where despite the economic constraints everything Big was seemingly good: Big Data, Big Clouds, Big VMs, etc. Caught in the industry's lust for this excess, 2011 was also the year I lost count of how many overprovisioned resources to ‘Big' Production VMs I witnessed. Mo...Jan. 13, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 766 |
 When we last left Oracle’s big data plans, there was definitely a missing piece. Oracle’s Big Data Appliance as initially disclosed at last fall’s OpenWorld was a vague plan that appeared to be positioned primarily as an appliance that would accompany and feed data to Exadata. Oracle d...Jan. 13, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 1,205 |
 The latest BriefingsDirect case study podcast discussion centers on how Nottingham Trent University gained strategic operational efficiency and improved IT management.
We were very, very good at moving forward and doing lots and lots of things, but delivering products at the end of th...Jan. 13, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 940 |
 Cloud computing has been a force in the industry for the past few years. Regardless of your feelings for it, one fact remains true ─ you have to monitor it just like any other system in your infrastructure, sometimes more so. The cloud presents a few challenges for traditional monitori...Jan. 12, 2012 10:30 AM EST Reads: 1,148 |
 The point to the “programmable Web” isn’t to make the Web more programmable, it’s to make software more Web-like. If we can finally free ourselves from the last vestiges of imperative, RPC-style programming, even going so far as to steer clear of functional programming, and move to a f...Jan. 12, 2012 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,155 |
 I put it to you that there is no more emotive word in information technology than “sprawl”..! From the olde Middle English word ‘spraulen,’ it is surely the term (other than ‘crash’) most deeply loathed by network managers and individual users alike.
As the Oxford English Dictionary a...Jan. 11, 2012 08:15 AM EST Reads: 883 |
 We won’t be that far into 2012 before most people’s New Year’s resolutions start to fall apart. That new running routine sounded great on January 1, but the reality is that getting up early to jog in the cold, dark dawn is no fun. And that diet? It’s easy to maintain until doughnuts st...Jan. 10, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 994 |
 Many companies have moved applications to the cloud as a way to reduce capital expenditure while improving IT focus and effectiveness. End users see the cloud as a way to access their documents and applications remotely from anywhere and from any device. IT managers see the cloud as a ...Jan. 9, 2012 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,653 |
 In today’s lightning fast information era, where anyone with an Internet connection holds virtual press credentials, news travels fast. And bad news travels really fast. In the rush to deploy new mobile apps quickly to meet customer demand and keep pace with competitors, many companies...Jan. 9, 2012 06:45 AM EST Reads: 1,367 |
 We’re living in the world of ubiquitous computing. Yes, it’s finally here. After 20 years of waiting, we can all take satisfaction that the benefits ascribed to ubiquitous computing are, or will be, ours.
But what does ubiquitous computing mean for citizens of this new world and for t...Jan. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,373 |
 With the New Year having rolled in, you’ve probably had your fill of “This is the year of (pick your technology, fill in the blank)” predictions. After all, for how many years now have we heard, “This is the year for cloud computing?”
While there’s no doubt that the wave of cloud comp...Jan. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,948 |
 Better managing virtualized IT workloads and private clouds is a top concern for IT leaders going into 2012. They may want to follow the lead of global travel and tourism giant TUI Group. The IT organization there, TUI InfoTec, has found ways to manage highly virtualized IT operations ...Jan. 7, 2012 10:00 AM EST Reads: 1,095 |
 Judging by the customer demand we’ve experienced at Virtustream, with many enterprises moving infrastructure and mission-critical applications into the cloud, it’s safe to assume that we are nearing a true tipping point for cloud adoption. But with adoption comes demand for superior pe...Jan. 5, 2012 09:30 AM EST Reads: 1,408 |
 B2B technology sales and marketing is being transformed, as we move from products to services, we must move from traditional evaluation based product sales to experienced based service sales, this is true in SaaS models but in many other places too. Why is it then that many SaaS provid...Jan. 5, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,205 |
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