Live Webinar: Grid Consolidation on Private Clouds (Oct. 7, 10am PT)

Join us for a live Webcast, and hear from Oracle experts on how these technologies can be used to consolidate your databases to a private cloud. With a private cloud, you can realize the efficiencies of multitenancy, rapid provisioning, and pay-for-use infrastructure.

White Paper: Architectural Strategies for IT Optimization: From Silos to Clouds

To move forward, organizations need an architectural strategy that can sustain them through the ongoing barrage of new business and operational requirements.

Inside the AT&T-Apple Relationship

Wired has an interesting look inside the tenuous relationship between Apple and AT&T. It’s a fun read, and I guess I’m not surprised that Apple takes such a hard-line with its partners. Why wouldn’t they use the same “you’re holding it wrong” approach? For Apple, the uncompromising attitude succeeds more often than it fails, and [...]

From VMWare + SalesForce.com (VMForce) to VMWare + Google: VMWare’s PaaS milestones

Three weeks ago, VMWare and Salesforce.com launched VMForce, a Salesforce-hosted PaaS solution based on VMWare runtime technology and force.com application services. In my analysis of the announcement, I wrote: VMWare wants us to know they are under the covers because of course they have much larger aspirations than to be a provider to SalesForce. They [...]

Customer Feature: "Public and Private Clouds: Making It Work"

Companies are using Oracle technologies to build private clouds, and integrate with public clouds, while ensuring security. Link to the original site

"Clouds Bring Agility to the Enterprise (Part 1 and 2)"

podcasts with Sushil Kumar available at http://bit.ly/4vtJfU Link to the original site

Interview: "Clouds Bring Agility to the Enterprise"

Sushil Kumar, vice president of product strategy and business development at Oracle, talks about the latest developments in cloud computing. Link to the original site

Oracle OpenWorld Live 2009: Oracle WebLogic Server On Tap from the Private Cloud

Product Manager Bill Dettelback explains some of the ways Oracle WebLogic Server can and should be deployed to private clouds in “platform as a service” (IaaS) mode. Link to the original site

Backward-compatible vs. forward-compatible: a tale of two clouds

There is the Cloud that provides value by requiring as few changes as possible. And there is the Cloud that provides value by raising the abstraction and operation level. The backward-compatible Cloud versus the forward-compatible Cloud. The main selling point of the backward-compatible Cloud is that you can take your existing applications, tools, configurations, customizations, [...]

Review of Fujitsu’s IaaS Cloud API submission to DMTF

Things are heating up in the DMTF Cloud incubator. Back in September, VMWare submitted its vCloud API (or rather a “reader’s digest” version of it) to the group. Last week, the group released a white paper titled “Interoperable Clouds”. And a second submission, from Fujitsu, was made last week and publicly announced today. The Fujitsu [...]