The Oracle weather report: Plenty of Sun and Cloud ahead
Posted by Cath Everett in Technology on Thu, 25/02/2010 - 12:07
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- Oracle will provide a complete set of building blocks for building and managing public and private Clouds from application to disk.
- It will provide applications that can both be deployed in a private Cloud environment or accessed from its data centres via a SaaS delivery model.
- At a simplistic level, the vendor now has Sun’s hardware, Solaris operating system and virtual machine for the ‘Infrastructure-as-a-Service’ (IaaS) element, all of which will be integrated with the Oracle database and Fusion middleware.
Despite Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison’s continual derision of the term ‘cloud computing’, the vendor proved that it was not above jumping on the bandwagon this week as it attempted to reposition its existing offerings in a cloud-friendly light.
At a roadshow in London on Monday dubbed the ‘Oracle Cloud Computing Forum’, the supplier laid out where and how it intended to play in the Cloud world - and where its Sun Microsystems ac
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