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, processes [...]

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

There is an aphorism famously attributed to Mark Twain (among others) to the effect that there are “lies, damn lies and statistics.” The Mark Twain quotes on truth I was able to verify were almost as interesting though not quite so pithy:
 
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on [...]

ASM Hands-On Training, Lab 6, Looking into PST Metadata

This lab looks into the ASM disk header section that contain the Partnership and Status Table, the PST.
I have found in some limited occasions, specially following storage crashes that result in problems to mount the ASM disk groups, that looking into the PST may help to clarify the extent of the damage and [...]

OOW 2009: Experiences with Oracle WebCenter 11g: Implementing SOA with a User Interface

 
One of the sessions I am (co-)presenting at Oracle Open World 2009 is on ‘applying the concepts of SOA to and achieving the SOA objectives with User Interfaces’. What goes for SOA and typical programmatic (web)services can be applied to User Interface components to a large extent. Decoupling – cross location, cross technology, cross development [...]

Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 – Persistent Connection Pool – Converting In-Memory BI Server Processing to Temporary Tables

One of the nice little features of the BI Server that is rarely used in a pure BI EE implementation is the Persistent Connection Pools. As you would probably know, BI Server adds one more layer of processing, if required, through its in-memory processing engine. For example, in the last blog entry i had shown [...]

Browse Oracle APEX Applications Using SQL Developer

This is a quick alert that there is now a good article on the Integration of Oracle Application Express (APEX) and Oracle SQL Developer. You may already know that this feature was introduced with SQL Developer 1.2, but unless you had created an Oracle APEX connection you might not have realised the extent of [...]

Cloud APIs need to be complemented by Cloud processes

A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement). That’s fine, but before we go crazy with detailed technical standards let’s realize that for Cloud computing (of the public variety at least) to take off we’ll need just as much standardization of [...]

The Rise and Rise of Unstructured Data

Managing structured data is so easy nowadays.  Construct an Oracle
database, populate it and query it.  A piece of cake!  Even if the data
is in another database all you need to do is to connect to it and run a
query.  So all your business problems are solved if all your
information is in the form of structured [...]

The Rise and Rise of Unstructured Data

Managing structured data is so easy nowadays.  Construct an Oracle
database, populate it and query it.  A piece of cake!  Even if the data
is in another database all you need to do is to connect to it and run a
query.  So all your business problems are solved if all your
information is in the form of structured [...]

Twitter Portlet for Webcenter Interaction (ALUI) Part 1 (Robert Herrera’s Blog)

The Aqualogic portal has always been community centric and social to some extent. But as more and more everyday users delve into the social computing world outside of work we are seeing more socially based solutions thought up for common use cases.
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