Oracle generates far more news about products, strategy, and tech-nology in a two-month period than we could possibly fit in the pages of this publication. Oracle Magazinepublishes some small amount of Oracle news every 60 days, and that’s not an apology or false modesty on behalf of the magazine.
He also unveiled the latest Oracle engineered systems releases and discussed their infrastructure and platform support for cloud computing. Ellison discussed public and private clouds, the levels of cloud services-software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS)-and their key components, and Oracle’s latest offerings in each of these service areas.Įllison talked about Oracle technologies designed specifically for better cloud com-puting, from infrastructure and private cloud services to database multitenancy and engi-neered systems. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s Sunday keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 was about cloud computing, including the history of cloud computing going back to NetSuite in 1998 and the beginnings of Oracle Fusion Applications development in 2004. There were announcements focused explicitly on Oracle cloud technologies and solutions, but cloud was also a big part of every Oracle product, technology, and service announcement and discussion. I didn’t count the number of conversa-tions I had or heard that included the word, but I’m quite comfortable saying that cloudwas the word of the week at Oracle’s conferences and events in San Francisco, California, September 29 through October 5, 2012.
I haven’t seen too many references to cloud computing in movies or on television, but those that I have seen seem limited to the idea that a treasured file or information the hero or villain may be looking for is safe from local mayhem because it is safely stored “in the cloud.” Fortunately, the fact that a movie or television show delivers a very narrow definition of cloud computing as internet-located storage isn’t likely to break the on-screen story or reduce the entertainment value of a production. And for historical reasons, I suppose, the significant computing power in most screen fiction seems to come from a vintage mainframe- rather than a modern supercomputer or engineered system.
That magically computed result, that missing electronic file, and that unknown password that will stop something bad or start something good can go from nonexistent to resolved in one brief scene. In movies and television shows, information technology is often scaled down to fit the story. And because these are real-world stories, no mainframes of any kind were used in the successful deployment of and access
The Oracle Cloud and Oracle private cloud solutions featured in this issue also rely on Oracle engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic. See “Utility Computing in the Cloud” (page 24) and “Banking on a Private Cloud” (page 30) in this issue to learn more about how three organizations use and benefit from Oracle cloud solutions. Cloud Documentaries | In this issue of Oracle Magazine, real organizations use Oracle public and private cloud solutions-including Oracle Cloud, Oracle Database, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c-to put their own customers first, integrate cloud and legacy information systems, move their standards-based cloud solutions between different cloud service providers, deploy solutions in Oracle Cloud and private cloud environments, and more.