EMC CEO Defines “Killer App” for Cloud
October 3, 2012
Grazed from Information Management. Author: Jim Ericson.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci led off the second full day of Oracle OpenWorld 2012 with a keynote address about his company’s aggressive approach to infrastructure and cloud computing.
Tucci said the Oracle audience was fortunate to be at the nexus of opportunities presented by cloud computing, which he called a huge focus for both Oracle and EMC. He traced the history of mainframe and client-server computing leading to the buildup – and now the build out – of computing architecture based on growing stores of data and commodity computing resources. He said relational database models will continue to thrive and that they are now augmented by developments such as NoSQL and Hadoop along with new programming languages.
The sum of this is that new opportunities will arise for companies with the strategy and skill sets to leverage all kinds of structured and unstructured data into better decisions. “Real time predictive analytics will be the killer app for this cloud era,” Tucci said…
To win in the cloud, the CEO said, businesses need to embrace three strategies. First, they need to standardize infrastructure, a fait accompli thanks to the widespread embrace of x86 architectures and commodity hardware already in place at Amazon Web Services, Google, Twitter and Facebook. “They are standardizing on x86 scale out architectures,” said Tucci. “The industry and the world have voted,” he said, on UNIX shipments that are dwarfing all other architectures…
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