Commodity vs appliance-based cloud has split industry
October 3, 2012
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Derek Du Preez.
Whether companies should be looking to commodity-based computing for public cloud offerings or highly engineered systems has caused a split in the IT industry. This is according to Derek Wilson, managing director for Global Platforms, BT Innovate & Design, who spoke to Computerworld UK at Oracle OpenWorld this week in San Francisco.
Wilson’s comments come shortly after CEO Larry Ellison’s announcement that Oracle will be branching into infrastructure-as-a-service, which will be offered on its highly engineered systems. This approach differs to companies like Amazon Web Services, which run on commodity hardware…
During his keynote Ellison said: "The infrastructure that we’re offering isn’t conventional. It’s not plain old commodity infrastructure." Oracle’s IaaS will include its operating system and virtualisation technologies, and is powered by the company’s Exadata, Exalogic and SuperCluster machines…
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