Oracle Open World: Ellison Preaches Cloud Religion

Nerval's Lobster writes "Oracle CEO Larry Ellison used his opening keynote at Oracle Open World (OOW) to unveil several initiatives to accelerate the cloud, including its own private cloud, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and its latest database version—which, coincidentally, can be stored in memory within Oracle's latest Exadata database machines. Ellison also paid tribute to Oracle hardware partner Fujitsu, which had earlier announced 'Project Athena': a server designed with a UltraSPARC chip that (he claimed) can run the Oracle database 'faster than any microprocessor on the planet.' Ellison opened OpenWorld with four key announcements: that Oracle is now offering infrastructure as a service; that it will complement the IaaS offering by allowing customers to run that same infrastructure behind their corporate firewall as a private cloud; the launch of Oracle database 12C (where the 'c' stands for 'cloud'); and, finally, the new Exadata servers, which barely use disk drives at all in-favor of in-memory storage, with flash memory as a fallback."

Comments

He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh?

[Medievalist]

If I owned Java and mySQL I'd be preaching the gospel of "The Cloud" too.

Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh?

[jellomizer]

The cloud is the sliver lining for Oracle.

The trends were towards going to smaller PC hardware, with systems like Microsoft SQL and MySQL that are designed for the smaller Database. There is less of a demmand towards the ultra big and heavy gear anymore. You are not going to want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for an oracle license, for a database that has under a billion records in it. And your down time isn't going to cost you enough to make up for the expense.

However with Cloud systems, it bring back the big iron again. You are dealing with Huge Datasets, and even a small amount of downtime can cost your millions, plus the bad press from the Rabid Anti-Coud group.

The Cloud is the Silver Lining for Oracle. However it is what is hurting Microsoft.

Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh?

[slashmydots]

I think internally though they refer to it as a ball grabber product line since once part of your data and operations are on the cloud, they'd got you by the balls, lol. I know when I look for a software suite, complete lack of control over parts of it that are offsite, slow performance, need for an ungodly expensive fast internet connection, and zero failover options are all big perks.

Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh?

[Forty Two Tenfold]

Microsoft SQL Server definitely isn't designed

Agreed.

Re:He's got a couple keys to that kingdom, eh?

[SDrag0n]

Scope is important, however there is a common misconception that SQL Server can't handle anything bigger than a few Gigabytes. The largest single SQL Server database I've ever heard of is about 70TB. I'm sure 200TB would find it cramped but it also depends on how you're defining a database.

I recently learned that ORACLE is an Acryonym.

[PerfectionLost]

I recently learned that ORACLE is an Acryonym. It stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

If he really wants to enable "the cloud"

[afidel]

If he really wants to enable "the cloud" he would immediately change the licensing doc so that the vCPU boundary is recognized as a hard partitioning scheme thus enabling almost every Oracle workload that is today tied to hardware to run in a VM. Oracle's stupid licensing policy wrt VM's has been the one thing keeping any significant percentage of my environment on hardware (we're ~80% virtualized today and will be 90+% by the end of the year but Oracle licensing will keep that from reaching 99% like we would like).

Larry Ellison bashing "cloud computing"...

[flydpnkrtn]

Anybody remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOEFXaWHppE

Guess he's changed his tune...