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Archived Cloud Computing Articles
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15 Oct 2011
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Overview Video Demo of Cloud Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c [24752]
Solution Offers Complete Cloud Lifecycle Management
Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, Oracles complete cloud lifecycle management solution, includes self-service provisioning balanced against centralized, policy-based resource management, integrated chargeback and capacity planning and complete visibility of the physical and virtual environment from applications to disk. The three-minute video overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c gives viewers a comprehensive look at the capabilities of this solution.
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11 Oct 2011
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Oracle Public Cloud [24704]
A Subscription-based, Self-Service Model
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison recently unveiled a new service, the Oracle Public Cloud, which is designed to deliver subscription-based, self-service access to Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Cloud Service, Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud Service, Oracle Social Network, Oracle Java Cloud Service and Oracle Database Cloud Service. Customers will be able to deploy existing standard Java and Oracle Database applications to the Oracle Public Cloud without rewriting them, allowing users to take advantage of their existing IT assets, skills and ecosystems.
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10 Oct 2011
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Feds Race to Join the Crowd [24706]
Or, Rather, to Join the Cloud
It's one thing to declare a change at the policy-making level and quite another to make that change a reality in the trenches. So, as Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, who ordered government agencies to begin a migration to the cloud in December 2010 has discovered, implementation is somewhat slower than declaration. Cost constraints and security issues, as well as the diverse storage needs of various agencies, along with congressional insistence on demonstrated cost benefits, are among the considerations slowing things down. The story is capably covered in Mary K. Pratt's article "Feds race to the clouds" in ComputerWorld.
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28 Sep 2011
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Some Winners in Cloud Services [24676]
NetworkComputing (September 28, 2011)
The cloud is still in the infancy stage and yet some MSPs are finding the key to success while others are still searching for answers on both the provider and user sides. The cloud must "Is It Time to Reinvent the Cloud? Not necessarily if you leverage what you do best in a vertical market. One cloud solution can't be everything to everyone but to someone the cloud can be everything.
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26 Sep 2011
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Security Trumps Scale [24675]
NetworkWorld (September 26, 2011)
A study has found that "SMBs Just Arent Into the Cloud". SMBs recognize the benefits of the cloud, the problem is that their necks are on the line and if for any reason, yours, mine or an Act of God, it the cloud doesn't protect my data and perform as promised I'm the one on the street.
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21 Sep 2011
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SAS Grid omputing with the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System and the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance [24615]
Strong I/O Scalability Makes this Configuration a Winner
In her OTN article on creating a robust platform for SAS Grid Computing that uses the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System and the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 Appliance, Maureen Chew concludes that this particular blade/storage appliance combination and the Solaris 10 OS constitute an ideal environment for SAS Grid Computing applications. She writes that 30 compute hours in the SAS Grid Mixed Analytic workload finished in approximately 45 minutes, adding that a mirrored pool across two disk shelves was found capable of delivering more than 3 GB/sec of I/O throughput. Tests using a single PCIe, dual-ported, InfiniBand connection from the Sun ZFS Storage 7420 appliance performed roughly equivalent to a quad 10 GbE link aggregation despite the expectation that the quad 10 GbE might perform 20% to 25% better.
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