Oracle Cloud Computing Summary: Updated post OOW 2011

At Oracle Open World 2011 in October 2011, there were a variety of Cloud Computing Updates, Product Directions and Announcements that I've attempted to reflect in my summary view.  I hope you find it useful.
As always, comments and feedback are welcomed.

As you can see from my previous post, a few more products have been added, showing Oracle's increasing focus on Cloud Computing.  Also, the focus on Engineered Systems has increased, and it shows the Oracle-Sun acquisition bearing fruit in systems are built, tuned and pre-engineered by Oracle.A variety of articles share more detail about Oracle Engineered Systems Strategy.

Oracle Cloud Computing Summary View: Version 2.0, December 14, 2011.

Some disclaimers:
-This is my view, and how I see it, and does not represent Oracle's or anyone else's view.
-Not all Products are in General Availability (GA) yet.  Please talk to your Oracle representative for more details on the above.
-This is my attempt to be current as of December 14, 2011. 

Cloud Computing Use Cases

Greetings,

I wanted to take a minute to share a slide I have delivered in-person presentations recently.  In previous presentations, I've covered the different service models of Cloud Computing, and we've also discussed the different models in my posting mainly Public, Private and Hybrid.

In this mapping spreadsheet,  I've tried to cover most common use-cases, and welcome feedback  - additions to the list or comments.

Figure 1.  Cloud Computing Use Cases

Oracle's Cloud One-Pager: Revised

Good Morning,

A few months ago, I had published what I liked to call a "One-Pager" of Oracle's Cloud Offerings.  While it is hard to put everything on one-slide, especially with a large variety of products, I have tried to cover the basics, at this level of detail.  I may have to develop a second view that drills deeper from say "Platform Products"

This is a revised diagram based on feedback:

M&A Week: HP+Autonomy, Google+Motorola Mobility

This week was an interesting one for M&A activity, with Google+Motorola Mobility and with  HP announcing plans to buy Autonomy, a software and services company, based in the UK.    The company's core business seem to be Enterprise Search and "Meaning Based Computing",  based on research done at Cambridge University.

Word on the street is also that HP also plans to to can its WebOS (RIP Palm) and PC business.  There has been a lot of speculation about where HP would be in a few years, and to what sector, it would remain relevant.

I've always associated HP as a Hardware and Infrastructure provider, never a software provider.  And this acquisition continues down that path.

Have you programmed in a Smalltalk/PowerBuilder/C/C++/Java/Visual Basic/.NET/Database/Ruby/Grails/ that came out of HP ? x   Or an ERP/CRM solution ?

Well...I haven't, and I've been around the block a few times !

Best of Collaborate:Cloud Computing Industry Directions

OAUG members, please join me in the Best Of Collaborate 2011 series. 

Join me for a session Cloud Computing Industry Directions  - let us take a walk through the Cloud Computing Landscape from many dimensions.

Date: Monday, August 15, 2011
Time: 10:30am-11:30 am CT.

The session introduces core concepts and compares the market approaches in the market place prevalent today.

Security in the Cloud

Happy Monday !

I wanted to share I've also started to blog in parallel on ATT's Networking Exchange Blog, 
and here is my posting on a mini-series on Security in the Cloud.
Happy Reading !

Oracle Fusion Applications Usability: ITS BACK

Good Saturday Y'all,

It was very heartening to see the Oracle Fusion Applications Usability web-site back up..resurrected and ready to roll.  I can only imagine the hard-work by the content management team at Oracle.

Oracle Fusion Applications Usability: Where is Waldo ?

Often in our line of work, one set of technologies becomes the foundation for another and lock-step with one another.

-Oracle PL/SQL and Database Development became the foundation for Oracle EBusiness Suite (most of the modules anyway) in a client-server architecture.

-Oracle Fusion Middleware components - SOA Suite, BPM Suite, BI, WebLogic are becoming the Foundation for Fusion Applications.

At the recent Collaborate Conference in April - I had a session on SOA Maturity.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards for 2011

FLASH UPDATE: Submission Date extended to July 29th.

Good Morning and hope you had a great weekend.


I wanted to bring the attention of the Oracle community to an exciting event that happens every year at Oracle Open World.   Think of this as the Academy Awards for Oracle Fusion Middleware

If you have done innovative, cutting edge, exciting work using Oracle Fusion Middleware, please use this link to get yourself heard and recognized.


Customers may submit nominations for multiple categories.

• Application Grid and Oracle Exalogic
• BI and EPM
• Data Integration
• Enterprise 2.0
• Fusion Development and Application Development Framework
• Identity Management
• SOA, AIA, BPM

Facebook's Database Architecture: Think ExaData; Exalogic ?

Good Morning,

While parsing through my blog-feeds and the twitterati - one posting caught my eye.  More so, perhaps because I've been a database guy for a few years, so it catches my attention.

The issue is the MySQL database architecture of Facebook, and comments made by Michael Stonebraker have been echoed all over the blogosphere.  This article by Derrik Harris caught my eye and goes into details of sharding, servers and transactions.

By the way, this is typical of every startup I've known. Costs have to be kept down, and we need something to "hold data and transactions", until the  hockey stick catches up. Great problem to have from a business standpoint, but often the technical limits of a system get pushed.