It is strange to be writing this post right after the biggest outage in the cloud computing history. Outage or not, I feel the march to the cloud is all but unstoppable. Not only is this outage not going to deter more people to come to the cloud, it will, in my humble opinion, accelerate cloud computing momentum. Even though the outage was confined to a single region of the Amazon EC2 cloud, it was, and still is, at the top of the news and the world at large can finally understand just how much workload has already moved to [...]
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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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Cloud Computing is the hottest IT subject today. We are runnign a free webinar on the subject of Cloud Computing and its implications on DB2 professionals. The webinar is on March 25 at 1pm Eastern and replays will be avaiulable but you must register. [...]
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