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.
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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, processes [...]
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 submission [...]
Have you noticed the subtle change to the VirtualBox logo? Probably not, but thanks to ReadWriteWeb for pointing out the change.
VirtualBox is one of several open source projects that Sun oversaw, and in his strategy briefing last week, Larry Ellison announced that VirtualBox images will be deployable on Oracle VM, which is great news.
If you [...]
Here’s another installment in the “we’re-a-for-reals-product-team” series.
If you’re interested in WebCenter, but don’t have the time or resources to download, install and configure it on your own to kick the tires, you should sign up for a WebCenter Test Drive.
Basically, the test drive will give you a hosted sandbox environment where you’ll have your own [...]
I’m not a big fan of reposting without adding anything but I wanted to point to Vadim Lander’s (our new Chief Identity Architect) initial post – "Role of Identity Management in Public vs. Private Cloud Computing."
The post covers the primary difference between the cloud types and the identity management requirements for each. And of course [...]
Encouraged by hypervisor vendors, the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing is rampant. In the industry, the term “virtualization” (and its corollary, “virtual machine”) is used in so many different ways that it has lost all usefulness. For a recent example, read the introduction of this SNIA/OGF white paper (on Cloud Storage) which asserts that [...]
Cloud development toolkits like Libcloud (for Python) and jcloud (for Java) have been around for some time, but over the last two months they have been joined by several other open source contenders. They all claim to abstract the on-the-wire Cloud management protocols sufficiently to let you access different Clouds via the same code; while [...]
Drip drip drip… Is this the sound of your cloud leaking?
It can happen in different ways. See for example this recent research paper, titled “Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in Third-Party Compute Clouds”. It’s a nice read, especially if you find side channels interesting (I came up with one recently, [...]
Image by my lovely wife used with permission, I hope.
If you read Gizmodo, you’re familiar with their “What Is This?” post series.
Basically, they post cool images of weird stuff and ask “What Is This”, simple right?
Here’s an example. I’m a compulsive scanner, so I rarely read the posts, but it looks like they identify the [...]