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Archived Cloud Computing Articles
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18 May 2013
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Delivering Cloud Services to the State of Texas [31006]
An Oracle Enterprise Architecture White Paper
"Most government organizations spend a significant portion of their technology budgets procuring and maintaining information technology (IT) infrastructure, platforms, and applications. Purchasing hardware, upgrading software, and hiring administrators is a major undertaking, often consuming resources needed for other activities.
The State of Texas is setting a progressive example for other state governments by relying on cloud service providers to provision IT resources to dozens of state agencies. Led by the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), the state is creating the Texas Cloud Marketplace, a private cloud that utilizes engineered systems such as Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic to deliver new technology while fulfilling legislative mandates. Oracle is helping to transform the states widespread infrastructure, which spans hundreds of databases and tens of thousands of applications. The billion-dollar consolidation project was designed to help 300,000 government employees serve 25 million citizens in a more flexible and cost-effective way."
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16 May 2013
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Operational Siloes Hinder Effectiveness of Cloud Applications [31001]
Independent Report - Cloud for Business Managers: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Organizations are looking to the cloud to change not only how they buy and consume IT, but also how cloud actually impacts the business. In fact, one of the main drivers for organizations deploying cloud applications is to improve operational agility and effectiveness. To determine if cloud applications are delivering on this promise, Oracle partnered with market research firm Dynamic Markets to survey 1,355 executives from companies across the world with revenues of $65 million or more. The results showed that operational silos are often preventing organizations from realizing the promise of improved business performance and highlighted the need for a broad set of integrated cloud applications.
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10 May 2013
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Is Cloud ERP Right for Growing Organizations? [30912]
SaaS and Cloud ERP Observations report from Aberdeen Group
Organizations are more willing now than ever before to consider Cloud and SaaS ERP deployment models. As a growing company it is integral that you have a deployment model that best fits your requirements for cost, scalability, and flexibility.
This insightful research by Aberdeen will help you make more informed decisions by providing:
- Analysis of adoption trends
- Clear definitions of deployment models
- Pros and cons associated with each model
Over the past six years, Aberdeen Group has been measuring organizations willingness to consider a SaaS deployment model for their ERP implementations. Using this research, Aberdeen has created a short report to help organizations as they review their options and provide key takeaways to consider during the process.
Register Now and download the free SaaS and Cloud ERP Observations report from Aberdeen Group.
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03 May 2013
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Addressing the Top 5 Cloud Security Challenges [30813]
From Identity Management Product Marketing Team Blog
As we talk to organizations around the world, it's clear that most consider "cloud" as the biggest opportunity today to reduce cost. To any organization, cloud offers numerous advantages business agility, reduced operational costs, scalability, improved performance and more. With cloud deployments ranging from private to hybrid to public, the scale of benefits vary but so do the risks.
Going up the cloud continuum from on-premise to private to hybrid and then public cloud, ITs control and visibility into security policies decreases...
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14 Mar 2013
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Cloud Conversations: An Anthology from OTN Architect Day [30158]
Includes Podcasts and Papers
A variety of resources are available in "Cloud Conversations" assembled by Juergen Kress. These include recordings from OTN Architect Day on October 2012 that capture the Q&A sessions between the audience and the experts:
- Dude, Whats' My Role (What is the role in a cloud environment for the traditional IT practitioner?)
- Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
- All Clouds Are Not Equal (Cloud strategy in enterprise-grade cloud services)
- Cloud Security and Auditing
Kress includes three papers as well:
- "A Pragmatic Approach to Cloud Adoption"
- "Cloud Foundation" (a reference architecture document)
- "Cloud Infrastructure" (the provider's viewpoint)
Listen on for details.
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14 Mar 2013
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Oracle VM step-by-step Hands-on Labs [30161]
Three Sessions from Virtual SysAdmin Days now Available On-demand
The three lab sessions that were offered at the recent SysAdmin Days are now available on-demand:
- Lab 1: Deploying an IaaS Environment with Oracle VM
- Lab 2: How to Virtualize and Deploy Oracle Applications in Minutes with Oracle VM
- Lab 3: Deploying a Cloud Infrastructure with Oracle VM 3.x and the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Chris Kawalek has assembled links to these three sessions for the convenience of participants, noting that, together, they provide a good immersion in Oracle VM to prepare users for the next step of virtualizing Oracle Applications.
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