If you are in the Phoenix area on Wednesday, December 8 free up your calendar from noon to 4pm and come to the SWARUG (South West Area Regional User Group) meeting. Whether you are a DB2 for z/OS veteran, DB2 for Linux, Unix and Windows pro or have never worked with any DB2 before, you will find lots of material to help you stated or to bring your database career to a new level. I (Leon Katsnelson) will lead a discussion and a presentation on how to leverage Cloud Computing and other new technologies as well as social media to [...]
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Are your application development and prototyping projects being put on hold due to budgetary constraints? Do you continually have to wait for new hardware and software to be procured and provisioned before your developers can start new projects? Are your current development and test systems sitting idle most of the time? Do you spend long cycles creating copies of your development or production environments for testing new changes and updates? If you answered yes to any of these questions, join Sal, Uri and Leon to learn more about how you can leverage cloud computing to simplify development and testing for database projects. This webinar will feature live demos and will have about 20min dedicated for your questions. [...]
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“Agile, pragmatic, visionary” are not the first words that come to mind when we think of governments. I think, the current IT leadership of the US Federal Government is fit for these superlatives. According to Reuven Cohen the US Federal Government spends $20 billion per year on server and storage hardware. The average utilization of this hardware is 7%. This means that $18.6 billion of capital goes unused. This is taxpayers’ money we are talking about. Addressing lightly utilized capital intensive IT infrastructure is the hallmark of Cloud Computing so it should not be a surprise that IT leaders in the US Federal Government would turn to cloud computing. Last week (October 19, 2010), US feds announced that “federal, state, local, and tribal governments will soon have access to cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings through the government’s cloud-based services storefront, Apps.gov.”. US government agencies will have a blanket purchase agreement that will allow them to consume cloud resources without a requirement for prior approval. [...]
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Oracle has a lot to loose if, or more precisely when, Cloud Computing goes mainstream. Oracle can’t rely on product leadership to impress your line of business executives. Your Oracle salesperson will be singing you the sweet hymns of Exalogic and “cloud in the box”. She will be telling you how you should get it in to the ELA that she is working on. I am not saying that that big box with an X on it is not an impressive piece of hardware. However, if your project calls for “Cloud Computing” you should look elsewhere. Beware of new prophets with a hastily developed vision of the cloud, the one that is no cloud at all. It may have “Elastic Cloud” written on the outside but it stretches your budget $1 million at a time and it never shrinks. It will make you pay upfront and will have your Oracle sales person come back every year to get their customary 22% renewal fee. And you that old saying “nobody ever got fired for buying Oracle”, well, when it comes to the cloud the jury is still out on that. [...]
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Oracle Exalogic is a closed proprietary system that propagates the expensive IT practices of over purchasing capacity leading to low utilization rates. It lacks the required elasticity and consumption based pricing, and it does nothing to reduce operating costs through self-service. It may very well be a great hardware box, I don’t have an opinion on that, but there is definitely no cloud in that box. [...]
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