If you’ve been following the news for Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne 2010 so far you’ll have seen a whole heap of products unveiled. The company has quite literally carpet-bombed the newswires with some pretty meaty announcements. There is therefore, I hope, room for some slightly more tangential comments as to the look and feel of the show.
September 21, 2010
Amazon: Death by Cloud for Traditional Software
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Matt Asay.
Enterprise computing is moving to the cloud, but few seem to appreciate just how profoundly this shift will destabilize the traditional vendor landscape. Gartner projects enterprise software to top $232 billion in global revenue in 2010, and it’s safe to assume that the Oracle and IBM crowd expect the lion’s share to land in their pockets.
Not so fast. Lost in the hype around cloud computing is the very real possibility that the company doing so much to enable it just might take a massive share: Amazon.
September 21, 2010
Exalogic: Larry Gets the Cloud Now & He Wants It All
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Gary Orenstein.
September 21, 2010
That Didn’t Take Long: Oracle and HP Make Up
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Stacey Higginbotham.
September 21, 2010
HP offers telcos cloud-based device management tools
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: David Meyer.
The Cloud Services Enablement for Device Management as a Service (CSE for DMaaS) product lets wireless and broadband companies provide services such as managing companies’ smartphones, notebooks and other mobile devices for them.
IT staff at those companies would be able to manage these devices, as well as PCs, through a secure, customisable web portal that would allow for the distribution of applications, the configuration of devices, the diagnosis of problems and the enforcement of security policies. Full back-up and restore features would also be possible using the system.
September 21, 2010
SAP software-as-a-service tool allows businesses to measure CO2 impact
Grazed from Experian QAS. Author: Neil Hill.
SAP has upgraded a software-as-a-service application that lets businesses measure their greenhouse gas emissions in a simple manner.
Its Carbon Impact OnDemand 5.0 can now be used in more than 50 countries, while its new features include the ability to obtain carbon emission and energy use data from business application software suites and building management systems.
The software-as-a-service tool also includes modelling functions which allow environmental managers to predict the impact of their plans to cut carbon output.
September 21, 2010
Larry Ellison: how should we define the cloud?
Grazed from CWDN. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.
September 21, 2010
Interview with Dan Decasper, Cirtas CEO and Cofounder
Grazed from Cloud Storage Strategy. Author: Steve Lesem.
Dan Decasper co-founded Cirtas with the vision of enabling the enterprise to utilize cloud storage as if it were a local array.
CloudStorageStrategy.com asked him a few questions about "Cloud Storage Controllers" and what the technology means for the enterprise.
What was the original idea behind Cirtas?
Cirtas’ co-founders previously built a WAN optimization company that was acquired by Citrix. Together, they saw the coming of the cloud and recognized that broad scale adoption of cloud storage would require a "catalyst" technology to make the experience seamless and high performing. They had the expertise to develop such technology and founded Cirtas to address the market need…
September 20, 2010
HP Promotes Oracle for Cloud Despite Hurd Controversy
Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Michael Vizard.
Hewlett-Packard is hoping that mutual self-interest will trump the internecine warfare between HP and Oracle over the latter company’s decision to hire former HP CEO Mark Hurd.
September 20, 2010
Will Two-Step Authentication Provide Better Cloud Security?
Grazed from IT Business Edge. Author: Sue Marquette Poremba.
As more enterprises consider moving to cloud computing, security in the cloud remains a major concern, particularly the ease in which hackers can gain access to data.
September 20, 2010
ABB Invests in On-Demand Data Center Power
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Katie Fehrenbacher.